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Breathe and Tell a Story
Ellen Phillips Frohnmayer
其他書名
Reflections on Singing, Music and Life
出版Phil Frohnmayer, 2020-05-20
主題Music / GeneralPerforming Arts / General
ISBN17350219039781735021904
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=sBqRzQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Philip Frohnmayer's gifted vocal instruction launched the careers of national and international opera stars, who have joined the rosters of the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, and Covent Garden. He was chair of the voice department at Loyola University New Orleans for over 30 years, and received many awards for his teaching and service in the community. From 2004-2011, he wrote a series of engaging and profound essays to share with his students. During those years, his life took unexpected turns--Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and cancer in 2008-and the articles ultimately became "an autobiography of a life lived through music."According to Frohnmayer, the initial impetus to write Breathe and Tell a Story came from his students:" Many of my students, present and past, have encouraged me to write a book about singing. I firmly believe that the singing act, which requires clarity of mind combined with unblocked physical coordination, constitutes a kind of mystery that cannot be fully explained. And how could I write a book, faced with the daily responsibilities of a large studio teaching schedule, while keeping my voice fit for a number of performances and seeing to the welfare of the voice program at Loyola University? I decided to start writing a weekly letter to my students, and others whom I thought might be interested in what I had to say. I would disseminate these letters by email to a growing list of subscribers. I was astonished by the amount of feedback I received from my readers, whose insights and criticisms often suggested subject matter for new articles. Soon I was writing more than one article a week. At first, I tried to cover certain basic principles of instruction-proper breathing, posture, energy, and vowel resonance. Soon, however, I began to indulge myself in the pleasure of writing. The articles began to include much of my own life experience in music-my particular likes and dislikes, pieces of music that moved me and why they did-in short, the book became an autobiography of a life lived through music."