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		<itunes:subtitle>Provided by a team of sought-after vocal instructors, this practical and enjoyable series of podcast lessons will help you discover your singing potential.</itunes:subtitle>
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		<title>Types of Body Work for &#8220;Vocal-Ease&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many singers with whom we work, there is a significant level of distress in the body and mind:  Often there is a real lack of movement in the respiratory system system and little sensation or coordination among body, mind and heart.  The result is the inability to discern the difference between pushing/shoving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Aging Voice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What happens when we reach our forties and fifties and our singing voices no longer behave as they always have?  Help!!  What can we do about it! We ask ourselves: Am I doomed to be that voice that everyone secretly (or not so secretly) wishes would stop singing, or can I make some changes and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part II: Live vs. Auto Tune&#8230;Comparing Apples to Oranges to Get Fruit Salad</title>
		<link>http://www.washvocal.com/blog/2009/05/part-ii-live-vs-auto-tunecomparing-apples-to-oranges-to-get-fruit-salad/</link>
		<comments>http://www.washvocal.com/blog/2009/05/part-ii-live-vs-auto-tunecomparing-apples-to-oranges-to-get-fruit-salad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 13:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the second part of a two-part post on how Auto Tune and various computer-generated effects are shaping the way we hear.
1.  If a singer was born after 1980, chances are good that they have grown up spending more time listening to technologically-enhanced recordings and watching polished music videos that actually singing.
This means that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Todd Duncan as a Teacher</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Todd Duncan (1903-1998), opera singer and actor, originated the role of “Porgy” in George Gershwin&#8217;s famed opera Porgy and Bess. The baritone Duncan was also the first African American accepted into the New York City Opera. Duncan lived much of his life in Washington, DC, and taught voice on the faculty at Howard University as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Team Teaching Singers</title>
		<link>http://www.washvocal.com/blog/2009/04/podcast-lesson-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Voice clinician Richard Miller once wrote in the Journal of Singing: &#8220;Teaching voice tends to be a go-at-it-alone enterprise, much to the detriment of students and teachers alike.&#8221; The Washington Vocal Consortium has been using a collaborative, team teaching approach since 1987.
In this podcast, the first in the &#8220;In Your Own Voice Series,&#8221; Consortium member [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part I: Live vs Auto-Tune&#8230;Comparing Apples to Oranges to Get Fruit Salad</title>
		<link>http://www.washvocal.com/blog/2009/03/part1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.washvocal.com/blog/2009/03/part1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My husband and I just saw some rare video footage of the singer-song writer Don McLean performing his early 1970’s hit, “Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie.” It was recorded live, just him and his acoustic guitar and a single microphone in a coffee house setting. The simple, live version was brilliantly more honest and full [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May I be Franck?</title>
		<link>http://www.washvocal.com/blog/2009/03/may-i-be-franck/</link>
		<comments>http://www.washvocal.com/blog/2009/03/may-i-be-franck/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Recently a  young soprano brought the “Pie Jesu” from Faure’s Requiem to work on in her private lesson.   Her church choir director had asked her to sing it this Easter season, and she was very concerned about “breath support.”
We know that breath management is dependent on the coordination of the body with what happens at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Workshop for the Suspicious Cheese Lords!</title>
		<link>http://www.washvocal.com/blog/2009/02/hello-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome,  Suspicious Cheese Lords.  If you have follow up questions about, or comments on, our recent workshop, please post them here.  Feel free to ask any questions, make observations or tell us what kind of workshops you would like to see in the future!
We present a lot of information in a short amount of time.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who should attend?</title>
		<link>http://www.washvocal.com/blog/2009/02/156/</link>
		<comments>http://www.washvocal.com/blog/2009/02/156/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone with an interest in improving their singing skills will benefit from our one day workshops, including:

Choral singers
Committed amateurs
Aspiring professionals
Those who work with singers: conductors, educators and accompanists
Vocal arts’ patrons or anyone interested in the singer’s art

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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		<title>What will you learn?</title>
		<link>http://www.washvocal.com/blog/2009/02/after-completing-a-workshop-you-will-be-able-to/</link>
		<comments>http://www.washvocal.com/blog/2009/02/after-completing-a-workshop-you-will-be-able-to/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After completing one of our workshops, you will be able to:
Breathe

Allow a released &#8220;singer&#8217;s   breath&#8221;
Use your breath to sustain a beautiful sound
Use breathing to stay relaxed through a long rehearsal
Gain vocal stamina through through freedom of body alignment

Make a Sound ( phonation )

Express and manage clear, &#8220;naturally&#8221; supported singing
Get rid of excessive vibrato
Develop a [...]]]></description>
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