Endorsements
Stephen Flaherty - Tony Winning Composer "Once on This Island"
"With SINGING - BODY AND SOUL, Barbara J. Simon has written a very wise, witty and accessible book on the technique and art of singing. Barbara's book is unique in that it combines the technical and interpretive aspects of singing in a very user-friendly way with pages and pages of wonderful practical advice. Whether you aspire to sing on the Broadway stage or just want to be the best shower singer you can be, you will enjoy Barbara's book immensely."
Deke Sharon - A Cappella Vocal Producer "Pitch Perfect"
"A breezy, chatty yet still nuanced and insightful series of tips and best practices for singers, especially musical theater singers (on whom this book is focused)" -
4- Star Review on Goodreads.com
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Buy your copy of "Singing - Body and Soul" at Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble.com, Kindle and NOOK. Also available in paperback at Little City Books in Hoboken NJ.
Singing: Body and Soul
Singing: Body and Soul is a playful arts and science book about learning to sing. It is playful because its target audience is young beginning singers age 11 years old and up. The scientific concepts involved are described with simplicity, imagery, humor, metaphor, and no hard-to-spell science terms – so pre-teens can quickly absorb the information and use it now! Their voices are just beginning to change because the hormones that transform a child into a young adult (capable of propagating the species) are the same hormones that change the nature of the singing voice.
Singing is closer to a human mating call than any other sound we make. Biologists don’t talk about humans having a particular mating call (like birds or frogs or crickets), because there is not a standard sound common to all people. But desire rides on the voice when we are near a potential mate, and you can tell when a human voice is filled with passion. There is more energy, resonance, personality, and depth to that sound than in our everyday speaking voices.
The mating call is generated from a place deep in our being, drawing on primitive images and a full-body energy source — just like when singing. The deepest truth about ourselves comes into play when we finally realize who and what we want, and desperately call out for that mate. Willing to reveal so much, the human mating call can hold an audience captive and make you feel that the singer on stage is calling out for only you. It’s not long before that singer’s poster is up on your bedroom wall.