Start by marking Vocal Wisdom: Maxims of Giovanni Battista Lamperti as Want to Read.

Its an amazing book and Im so glad I waited until now to read it, although it was recommended by my mentor Cornelius Reid and I bought it many years ago when Patelsons music story in NYC was still open.

And as such, I cant recommend this book to beginning singers or even beginning voice teachers.

But there are so many things that Cornelius used to teach me and others (I listened in on man.

But there are so many things that Cornelius used to teach me and others (I listened in on many a lesson he taught).

He may not have said them in quite the same way, but it is so reassuring to read them as spoken by a master singing teacher from 150 years ago.

And there is wisdom for everyone, not just singers: Subjectivity leads to bigoted ignorance.

Sub-consciousness and consciousness are two ends of the same thing.

Join them. Make them one.

Ignorance can be conquered by education, stupidity by unfoldment.

The great personality is one who acts intuitively, but shapes his acts by thoughts.

Education should discipline, not stifle subjectivity.

Firstly, it is not written by Lamperti but is a collection of the notes of one of his students.

Secondly, those notes are not pedagogical but are mostly vague (only occasionally specific) tidbits about singing that are not instructional.

It is poorly organized--while individual sections contain titles that surely interested me, only the first sentense or two actually discussed that topic, and the re.

It is poorly organized--while individual sections contain titles that surely interested me, only the first sentense or two actually discussed that topic, and the rest is almost incoherent babbling on no particular subject whatsoever.

This book needed a good editor, and unfortunately one must not have been known to the author.

I come back to the wisdom within these pages time and time again.

So Im basically just walking around like a raw nerve and Im not sure that I.

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