Things are happening Simsonic breathing - wise....

After so many years instructing a vast number of, mainly singers, to synchronise their breathing and achieve that legendary ability to 'support' the voice, there is a definite sensation that supported breathing is 'taking over ' for many who have persevered with my ' Extended Breathing' technique, the which is entirely beneficial to all professional voice users, and hundreds of patients with respiratory malfunction ...at last ..! That prompts one into thinking maybe I should retire graciously now, and simply enjoy the result - listening to wonderful voices wafting gentle pianissimo, soaring magnificent fortissimo, and languishing in sumptious legato...aaaaah ...such a privilege to have been trusted by so many in the art of singing, especially for those whose original talents and gifts have been perverted by a fee charging opportunist in the guise of 'Singing Teacher'. In 1915 Thomas Beecham wrote in the London Daily Chronicle - " The Tragi-Comedy of English Singing". 'There is one branch of musical art in which there is to be discerned, not only no advance of any kind, but a distinct movement of decline, and the responsibility of blame may fairly be divided between the singers themselves and those to whom has been entrusted the task of their education. We have an enormous number of first rate singing students and yet, with a population of forty six million a selection of the best native vocalists would hardly complete the necessary personnel of a single good opera company. Undoubtedly the main cause is to be found in the deplorable system of training most of them have received, either in the great schools of music, or from private teachers. There can be no question that almost the greatest drawback is the scarcity of good singing masters, the appalling overgrowth of bungling incompetence that dare to imagine that without the smallest qualifications it can mould the most delicately sensitive and beautiful of instruments in the world...' So there you go - not a lot has changed in the interim; many of my contacts , who have spent thousands being 'trained' to sing are thoroughly disappointed after years in various establishments - and go into another business ......The main element missing to my knowledge is the art of breathing....a subject that seems to elude many 'singing teachers' - which is why I am not classified as a singing teacher.......such arrogance, but I am very happy with that ' cause what I do ...works .....na na nana na.....k..p b.......g all my Dear 'believers'...x