Singing For Seniors
As an octogenarian myself, I love to help and advise singers of 'a certain age' to SING! The voice has no age. We must simply learn, as we grow older, to accommodate the changes to our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual selves. We can continue to joyfully lift our voices in song. All it takes is vocal training!
Please take a moment to view and listen to two wonderful singers, Barbara Myrick and Geoff Gordon. Barbara is an accomplished singer, pianist, and flautist. She continues to sing with The Motets (a local a cappella female choir) and concertize as a soloist. Geoff is a full bass-baritone and sings with The Gleemen (a local all age, all voice type male choir) and concertize as a soloist, currently working to produce Schumann's Dichterliebe.
When one thinks deeply about such things, one realizes that everything in our world is some form of ENERGY -- our bodies, our environments, everything on earth and everything in the cosmos. It's ALL energy ... every feeling, every thought, every plant and animal and mineral. Sound and light, as Albert Einstein so famously acclaimed, are also energy.
Music and singing are very personal connections with living sound. As it says in First John in the Bible: "There was the Word, and the Word was God, and the Word created all life." My experience of the Word in this sense manifests in speaking, singing, and listening. The energetics of sound is life-giving as it enters our bodies when we speak or sing.
Our physical bodies are living musical wind instruments.When we ask to "be sung" we invite the living energy of sound to resonate through our bodies. We can experience this extraordinary gift as an absolute reality. This is the basic approach to the technique of singing that I would like to share with you through vocal training.