I have a voice student at a performing arts high school in NYC. Just yesterday, she told me her juries are sung in front of all of her peers, freshman to senior. They're graded on singing the same Italian art song, on the same rubric. If any of them run out crying from fear (which apparently happens with alarming regularity), they're scolded in front of the class for their "unacceptable" behavior.
Who would emerge from a system like that a brilliant, free artist inspired and ready to take emotional and creative risks?
And if you did, would that would that be because of a system like that? Or in spite of it?
Interesting piece on performance
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Interesting piece on performance
Failing Our Singers: How a Demand for Execution Kills the Freedom to Create
The sooner we put those assholes in the grave&piss on the dirt above it, the better off we'll be