How Can We Keep from Singing Music and the Passionate Life

by Goldsmith, Joan Oliver

• ISBN13: 9780393323641
• ISBN10: 0393323641
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

In this "rousing book that salutes the passion, the joy, and the pleasures of singing, music, and practice" ( Spirituality and Health ), Joan Oliver Goldsmith celebrates America's over 20 million singers and "teaches us that...to pursue a creative passion is a true act of love" ( New Age ). She guides us not only behind the scenes of choirs and ensembles but inside the making and hearing of harmonious sound. "Her words soar, growl, cry and whisper. And they inspire" ( Publishers Weekly , starred review). As Goldsmith shares wisdom about finding one's voice, making mistakes, teaching, friendship, and the essential elements of creativity, "you'll learn [that] much of what she's learned from music is applicable to almost any life" ( Minneapolis Star Tribune ). "'Singing for your life' is what Goldsmith's book is all about. Read it and sing!"'”Bobby McFerrin

Table of Contents

Gratitudes	9	(4)
Credits	13	(4)
Overture: Playing the Invisible Instrument	17	(3)
A Box of Sound Bites	20	(7)
How Can We Keep from Singing	27	(11)
Harmonium and Tessitura	38	(10)
``Too Important to Leave to the Professionals''	48	(15)
Followership	63	(15)
Creativity's Compost	78	(18)
Quartet Making	96	(21)
Practice for a Singing Life	117	(12)
Conductor Watching	129	(24)
Balm in Gilead	153	(8)
Teach Your Children Well	161	(8)
A Peace as Audible as War	169	(24)
You Can't Make Music	193	(10)
Beginning for Intermediates	203	(18)
Suggested Listening	221