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Reclaiming Calliope Missive Six: A Request, and an Interview
Hello all!This is a missive of requests. I hope you don’t mind and thank you in advance… If you have bought the book on Indigo or Amazon and you liked it could you please review it on their websites? IndigoAmazon And as always can you pass on news about the book to those who you
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Reclaiming Calliope Missive 5: The Full-Blown Beauty of Anger
I loved my early voice study with Richard Armstrong, loved the permission he gave me to let loose big, rage-filled sound. Thick multiphonics rumbled around within my chest and splayed their way up through my sinuses, many pitches all at once in areas used to being much tidier. I reveled in the tussle of aggressive,
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Reclaiming Calliope Missive Two: Hope is the Thing with Feathers
Lake Nipissing’s churned up water crashes wave after wave onto a beach only meters from the rustic cabin within which I am prepping my teacher’s training summer module. Books by Betty Martin and David George Haskell bring to the surface what is shared between the acts of giving and receiving and the acoustic history of
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Reclaiming Calliope: Freeing the Female Voice Through Undomesticated Singing
My book Reclaiming Calliope: Freeing the Female voice through Undomesticated Singing is
being released August 2nd.
Writing it took ten years; the journey was both humbling and thrilling. I thought it would be easy
as I had been singing and teaching for over 25 years when I put pen to page. But the truth is I
had so much to learn through articulating my life with voice.
I am going to share excerpts over the next 7 weeks leading up to the launch.
Today’s content includes 1) the Cover, 2) the Table of Contents and 3) two endorsements from
the praise page.
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The Mystery of the Pharynx
Our means of vocal censorship and our systems of survival are one and the same. Trying to be polite, intelligent, under control or dominant becomes etched into our breath and voice bodies.
To free my students from this tyranny I teach them to trust the relief of a sigh.
I also explain that the efficacy of a moan – whether as a result of pleasure or pain – soothes the moaner while conveying pertinent information.
Sighs, moans, grunts and sobs are part of our innate empathy processes – how we attune to one another.
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Curio Box: Fides performs Berio with Turning Point Ensemble
“Canadian vocalist Fides Krucker’s blazing theatricality and playful brilliance put her in the same league as the fabulous American singer Cathy Berberian, who premiered this work.”
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The Mermaid: A Conversation with Fides Krucker – Julie Trimingham
Photo by Makoto Hirata —– I live by the salt water, and look out every day on a rock where seals sunbathe; my distance vision is impressionistic, the bodies lounging where rock meets wave might as well be mermaids….
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Permission to Scream
Martha fell off her perch in the Cincinatti Zoo one hundred years ago. I wish I’d known her, known the darkening skies when 2.5 billion of her species, the passenger pigeon, flew in one large airborne colony, their beating wings deafening human ears below. Drawings by Audubon show a pretty bird, refined lines, the female
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Hummingbird at dawn
Today I noticed something fresh; the sound of the human voice floating freely in the air. There is little traffic, no hum of tall buildings. I hear children’s voices and women’s voices and the men, too. Calling out to each other, singing fragments of song. Not competing with anything but the birds and the wind and the occasional
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