Shigo Voice Studio: The Art of Bel Canto

Margaret Harshaw told me that the opening of the mouth was like a proscenium arch—and I took her to mean not just its look but its feel—a very different thing.

I still remember her tracing the arch with her finger on her own mouth while sitting back in a chair next to the piano at Westminster Choir ...

Gray’s Anatomy

Many feelings relate to the “Imposto,” as Lucie Manén calls it.

One is the strange feeling of holding one’s nose—even of the nose holding you.

Yes, ...

Gray’s Anatomy

“When is the flat tongue not flat?”

Sounds like a riddle from Turandot's mouth, doesn't it?

Manuel Garcia wrote that the tongue must be flattened. So...

Yes, Halloween is coming.

You should see it here on my block here in Manhattan. It’s positively nuts. Thousands of kids (and their parents) show up. I dress up my husband as Dracula; h...

“Oh look! Another Gray’s Anatomy ear graphic! Didn’t you just post one a week ago?”

Yes, I did.

Call me crazy, call me ear-obsessed, call me listening-oriented.

I am all of these things.

I’m also sporting new Oticon hearing aids (nope, not shy about that) and hearing the floor squeak, th...