Is classical voice classical music or is it classical technique?
Yea, a classical technique. A lot of that has fallen by the wayside since college. We would have a jury every semester. You sing three classical numbers before a jury of professors and you get a grade for the semester. You would sing in Italian, Latin or English and they would ask questions like what is Tropo? When was this composed? So you have to know those things. That was two credits every semester. Did you enjoy that? I did, I did… and it gave me indispensible tools, even though I am not singing classically. I sing in a modern/popular style differently now that I ever would have before. You get a consciousness of the mechanics of what’s happening when you are singing. My sophomore year was my last year. At the end of my sophomore year I was burnt out on that. I still wanted to do music but I was tired of learning about music. I wanted to go do music. I learned a lot that sophomore year. I aced music theory. Ear training was a little harder for me. But, I was very much into it. I j
