Undergraduate education : vocal wisdom
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"You'd think that Ann Harrell, an associate professor of music, would be the perfect person to sit with at her students' voice recitals. She could offer all sorts of insight into the rarified world of opera singing. Truth is, though, that when her students sing in her studio or in performance, she gets antsy. At times so engaged-swaying with the music, mouthing words from memory, even taking breaths at appointed times-she appears to be giving the concert herself from the 20th row. Especially early in her three-decade career, Harrell says, "I was anxious and wanted them to do well, and I was trying to make a name for myself' Harrell has more than made a name for herself. In 2014 alone, student Anna Bridgman, BM '13, won the Music Teachers National Association's prestigious Young Artist Performance Competition. The accomplishment of training one champion would appear at the top of any teacher's resume, but Harrell has tied the national record of training four winners. Also in 2014, she won MU's top teaching award, a William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence."--First page.
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A Teacher's Art -- Forming the Formant -- Feeling the Sensation -- Not Strictly Musical -- Just Sing -- True Voice