Back - from a MUCH better voice lesson. A world of difference from a week ago when she didn't know everything quite as well and was being rather timid in her singing. This was much more satisfying, and now I can better look forward to seeing how the recital goes.
There's one thing her voice teacher has a bizarre attitude about, and that's teaching the student to give a CLUE to an accompanist, or God forbid if it were a conductor, as to when she's about to start singing something that follows a silence. I was saying how we listen for a breath or watch for body language that tells us when that entrance is coming, but it seemed like the teacher was saying how they teach "silent breaths" or some such... which literally provides no clue as when the next word or note is going to come out of the person's pie hole. Fortunately, in this set of songs there are only two or three places where we need to attack something together. And only one in particular will bug my ASS if we fail at that, but I can't go up against what someone's teacher is instilling in them. Bizarre.
