Gary Catona Posted on Tuesday, January 15, 2013 at 05:07PM ;)
Creators of art and truth seekers of every kind have a deep and abiding sense of it: they are driven by it, seduced by it, and struggle to realize its nature—perfection! And what is perfection? "Embodied beauty." More particularly, "perfection is the form of what is beautiful as presented directly to the senses or to the mind."
Gary Catona Posted on Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 05:37PM 
A great singing voice is a chaotic affair to the extent that the forces of life and death do battle within its tonal colors, textures, and emotions.
Gary Catona Posted on Tuesday, January 8, 2013 at 05:08PM ;)
When does a singer arrive at greatness? What is it that an exceptional singer is able to accomplish in his performances that sets him apart from other, perhaps other equally gifted, vocalists? Total commitment to the task at hand: the courage to throw himself - body and soul - into the chaotic, topsy turvy, sensationalized world of the music, where the rules of public acceptability and decency are tossed aside for the sake of unfettered truth and pure, emotional unveiling.
Gary Catona Posted on Thursday, January 3, 2013 at 05:09PM ;)
I want to confront directly one of most puzzling issues in voice instruction and I want to do so by posing a simple question: Why are most voice teachers unable to teach their students the best way to improve their singing voices?
I wrestled with this question for years and I believe that I have formulated a good theory: Despite the voice training that they may have undergone, most voice teachers begin as natural singers and never had to learn to sing.
Gary Catona Posted on Friday, December 28, 2012 at 05:26PM ;)
Whenever we produce a vowel sound, our voice muscles are immediately flexed into action. The particular vowel that is produced; the pitch on which it is produced; the volume at which it is produced; the speed at which the vowel may move through our range; the areas in our range (i.e., low, medium, high) where the vowel travels; and the intensity level of the emotion that is expressed—all determine how, and to what extent, the voice muscles are flexed. In my work, I have found five particular vowel sounds that flex the vocal muscles to an exceptional degree. I call these sounds “voice building vowels”; they are: