> Jenny wrote: > > > I have heard Joan Baez mention on a couple of > > occasions that she had to see a voice teacher and > > learn to sing all over again when she hit menopause. > >
In the current New Yorker, which I got in the mail last week, Paul Simon says that he was always troubled by his vocal range and feared it would limit his music - he can't write what he can't sing - so he has been taking voice lessons all his life. But I doubt there is a opera singer in the world who still doesn't practice voice, no matter how good she/he is. Tiger Woods still takes golf lessons. Before every baseball game, every player gets coaching and takes batting and infield practice. To take voice lessons is no big deal for anyone. Even I, believe it or not, even I practiced for hours over the course of weeks for my 5 minute gig chanting the litany at our community September 11th service. An d the only men-pause in my life was a dating slump. That will look good in the archives - I better continue to live in obscurity and die the same way because otherwise my biographer would have a field day researching these archives. Maybe the JMDL could raise big bucks by auctioning off the right to delete forever some of our posts... Vince
