SINGING SEURAT 7.10.2025
Elizabeth Perryman #akintsucrooner
I’ve always been drawn to the Seurat “Sunday Afternoon” painting. His pointillist style of dotted patterns within a specific structure has always triggered my imagination. Learning how to sing over the years feels related to this painting style; complimentary strokes on a canvas cast by a village of voice teachers. Core technical tools I have accumulated from varied voice teachers include accessing breath flow through body freedom, vibrating authentic sound, evenly balancing head and chest voice, bel canto vowel clarity, and height of palate position. Every so often one of the integral patterns acquired from past voice teachers from my singer’s Seurat comes to the forefront. Yesterday my Mannes voice teacher Ruth Falcon paid an invisible visit as my voice student Linda Garcia and I worked on compression and lower/upper passaggio balance in tricky Massenet phrases. Ruth’s instructional approach could be curt to put it mildly but dagnabbit, after 2 years with Falcon and Anthony Manoli, I was able to separate my molars and stretch up like a champ. And yesterday this tool was the triage needed as Linda was able to release, connect more to her body, and find balanced placement. I count myself fortunate to have worked with gifted pedagogs since the onset of Material girl; from Jerry Daniels and Sarah Stedman to Patricia O’Neill, Alfonse Anderson, and Ruth Falcon. This kinstucrooner has fulfilled the slow boil that is a dramatic throat with all the precious lacquer compounds of their expertise. I am grateful to integrate and share their wisdom. #voiceteacher #seurat #pedagogy
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