So it is with the art of singing. One must learn to use the voice in a free and easy way. The most exhilarating facet of really learning to sing is the freedom and naturalness of the trained voice and the range of art that it allows. But just as one has to learn to walk naturally, one also has to learn to sing. Highly Trained Voice.
Most people associate the highly trained voice with opera.
Over the years, because of a lack of amplification only the most powerful trained voices could be heard in the concert halls. Many fine singers found that they could not compete in the opera realm because their voices did not have this cutting edge. It is not the intention of this note to define how one can acquire such a cutting edge but rather to go at the needs of singers to sing well and in their own natural way. Singing as Art or Technology. In the Midwest area the art of teaching voice has been done by the use of the scientific methods of interpretation of the vocal process.