Mind and Voice: Principles and Methods in Vocal Training
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“Mind and Voice. Principles and Methods in Vocal Training.” By S. S. Curry, Ph.D., Litt.D. Price $1.25; to teachers $1.10 post free. Expression Company, Pierce Building, Copley Square, Boston. The author suffered for several years on account of wrong voice training from twenty different teachers, till he reached the nadir of his career, voice failure. He then began to search more diligently in this country and in Europe till he found the cause and the remedy. His thirty years’ experience he gives in this book. He places voice training on a broad basis — the proper coordination of the powers of the whole man. The relationship of mind, body, throat, lungs, breathing, to the voice, are clearly set forth. Shailer Matthews, D.D., of the University of Chicago, says of the author: “He has never been a teacher of young men and women who wished to declaim funny pieces or who wished to be coached as to tears and gestures; but in Harvard, Yale, Boston University, Newton Theological Institution, and in his own school of expression in Boston, he has educated preachers, public readers, and, above all, teachers.” So far as we have been able to examine it we find it par excellence.