Music Journal Article Reflection ... The main techniques discussed in the article are posture, breathing, warm-ups, and vocal exploration. One thing I learned from this article is that often 'untrained' adults want to use a pitch that is more comfortable for them rather than what is appropriate for the students...
When a girl of today leaves school or college and looks about her for material upon which to exercise her trained intelligence, there are a hundred things that force themselves upon her attention as more vital and necessary than mastering the housewife.
—Cornelia Atwood Pratt, U.S. author, women’s magazine contributor. The Delineator: A Journal of Fashion, Culture and Fine Arts (January 1900)
I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails.
—Mary Bokin Chesnut (1823–1886)
One must always be aware, to notice—even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.
—Thylias Moss, African American poet. As quoted in the Wall Street Journal (May 12, 1994)