It's been six weeks, an incredible trip that proved an eye opener in many ways.
There have been miracles and there have been things that have brought me to a point of utter desperation...and then there are my students and my friends who continue to be my strength and support and who really have given me courage in this very difficult period in my life.
You know teaching is not a "job" you do, it's not something you just pick up, teaching is a life thing...you either are born to it or not...
Its a lot like singing....singers are born, they are not made and the voice is demanding and needs to be heard and so is teaching.
It is at times like this that you know who is WHO...who stays in touch, who sends messages, who cares and is not just only on the receiving end, but on the giving end as well.
I have learned not to expect anything from anyone anymore, but it's such a wonderful feeling when those you care about, also care about you and let you know that you mean something in their lives. I am always grateful and appreciative of that special show of feelings.
Those who care are the real people, the real singers and the ones who make careers. They are the same ones that give to the audience and the viewer responds...
Thank you to all who care ...onward and upward...we are on the road again!!!
much love
Friday, May 23, 2008
Sunday, May 11, 2008
From Delia on MYSpace - All the way from Japan
From Delia
Subject: Thank You
Date:
May 9, 2008 7:42 PM
I am a new student of yours even of you dont know it yet. I would like to thank you for being and for revealing this etraordinary informations about singing. I am a spiritual person just like you and i am also a leo..... and i belive that you apear in a exact perfect moment in my life. You just cant imagine how much your words helped me, i can say in a moment. I could asimilate almost everything . Ofcourse i know is just a new begining for me and from now on i have a lot to work but at least i know that this is the right method for me. I didnt read your book yet becouse here its hard to get it. I live in Japan now and i am romanian and i listened to your words in english but still they went straight to my heart. I remember saying while i listened to your words-"o my god i love this women, i love you" and" thank you, thank you". So i couldn..t stand without sanding this thank you words directly to you. You are a wonderful person and i think we are blessed just to have you around us. I am sorry i didn..t say yet anything about me- I love opera and since childhood i study music- first piano, after that flute and finally my love opera but i didnt have enough money to rezist and to be accepted in this world. My country past a dificult time and at that time everybody wanted to be rich over night. Being rejected everywere didnt stop me to practice more just in case. One day i had a chanse to come and visit Japan and a miracol united me with my actual husband who is japanese and now he suport me with my canto lessons. MY teacher is japanese and he doesn..t speak english. And i dont understand japanese verry much but i am trying to do my best. I realized that 90% is just my work and his teachings dont matter so much... but now i found you and i realized that my work would be nothing without such amazing teachings that came from you just a wile ago. Again i thank you from all my heart and i hope sometimes i can change messages with you. Delia (please forgive my english and spellings)
Subject: Thank You
Date:
May 9, 2008 7:42 PM
I am a new student of yours even of you dont know it yet. I would like to thank you for being and for revealing this etraordinary informations about singing. I am a spiritual person just like you and i am also a leo..... and i belive that you apear in a exact perfect moment in my life. You just cant imagine how much your words helped me, i can say in a moment. I could asimilate almost everything . Ofcourse i know is just a new begining for me and from now on i have a lot to work but at least i know that this is the right method for me. I didnt read your book yet becouse here its hard to get it. I live in Japan now and i am romanian and i listened to your words in english but still they went straight to my heart. I remember saying while i listened to your words-"o my god i love this women, i love you" and" thank you, thank you". So i couldn..t stand without sanding this thank you words directly to you. You are a wonderful person and i think we are blessed just to have you around us. I am sorry i didn..t say yet anything about me- I love opera and since childhood i study music- first piano, after that flute and finally my love opera but i didnt have enough money to rezist and to be accepted in this world. My country past a dificult time and at that time everybody wanted to be rich over night. Being rejected everywere didnt stop me to practice more just in case. One day i had a chanse to come and visit Japan and a miracol united me with my actual husband who is japanese and now he suport me with my canto lessons. MY teacher is japanese and he doesn..t speak english. And i dont understand japanese verry much but i am trying to do my best. I realized that 90% is just my work and his teachings dont matter so much... but now i found you and i realized that my work would be nothing without such amazing teachings that came from you just a wile ago. Again i thank you from all my heart and i hope sometimes i can change messages with you. Delia (please forgive my english and spellings)
Sunday, May 4, 2008
ELIN...Truth is greater than Fiction - THE STUFF REALLY WORKS
The show last night was fabulous, Really!
I have to say it was one of the first times that I've sung an entire concert (2 sets) and experienced my voice as totally outside and above my head! JOY TO THE WORLD!!! And to you, my friend, for sticking with me through my ups and downs for almost an entire decade! Only to finally end up in this wonderful place that you knew existed all along.
I will say that I'm not "totally in the clear yet" meaning that whatever has not been put in 100% (or 110%, which is what we're really striving for) shows. So here and there I did have to catch myself to not "do the wrong things" because as you and I both know, my voice can no longer take it. Not a smidgen. So here and there I did feel that if I wasn't careful I might "croak." Not pretty to say, but the truth. And even if it would have been only for a second, on a note here or there, it would've thrown me off for the rest of the night. I couldn't allow that.
So I did monitor myself whenever I "felt" something that I shouldn't have...It was also incredibly interesting to note things that are becoming clearer and clearer to me since I've been intensively working on my own (now that you're not around to guide me from week to week.) It's meant that I've had to develop this very intimate relationship with my voice and the work, and through that I've discovered things that I wasn't really getting to the bottom of before. Such as "sounds moving upward and backward"...hello! That's like the basis of your whole teaching. :-)
But for whatever reason, I was still stuck in my unconscious pattern of pushing or subconsciously thinking that sounds are moving forward!
I just realized how that's been true through all these years and I'm finally REALLY grasping – consciously AND subconsciously – what it really means that sounds are moving upwards and backwards!
And another very beautiful thing that I noticed as I was singing last night, is how I have still been tending to push – instead of SPEAK – on so many songs...out of old habits. And it applies to songs we've worked on 100 times, just as much as it does to songs we haven't worked on that much. But it was fascinating to observe it (as if from somewhere in the back of my mind, or as if from outside the "balloon") as I was actually singing these songs... Partially it was just my old habits and subconscious "beliefs" that sounds move forward and need to be "pushed out." And partially it was habits I've kept alive on certain parts of songs, like long notes at the end of a phrase or song, or high notes (especially long ones) like at the climax of a song.
I clearly saw these old habits for what they are basically because whenever any pushing started happening (from an old habit) I would start feeling it and feeling that I wasn't going to be able to hold it. A very strong and obvious feeling that I wouldn't be able to see the note through unless I focused on the word and intention – on SPEAKING it – instead of the sound (which engaged my old habits of pushing)! Very, very interesting.
But again, all in all the concert shocked me, and wowed my audience. I sold every CD I brought last night. And I kept hearing the praises of everyone there, from people I'd just met, to my friends & family, to the organizers of the event...and even from my musicians! Which is always extra special. :-) But most importantly, I heard my own praises that THE WORK DOES PAY OFF!!!!!
This stuff not only works, but it is the most magical approach to singing I've ever encountered. And it leaves you feeling like you've connected to a place you don't even know where it is, but you do know it's magical. And you do know it's the right place. You know that it holds the secret.
Love you,Elin
PS Get better so we can take this work (and this voice) to the next level!!!! Where a STAR is born...
I have to say it was one of the first times that I've sung an entire concert (2 sets) and experienced my voice as totally outside and above my head! JOY TO THE WORLD!!! And to you, my friend, for sticking with me through my ups and downs for almost an entire decade! Only to finally end up in this wonderful place that you knew existed all along.
I will say that I'm not "totally in the clear yet" meaning that whatever has not been put in 100% (or 110%, which is what we're really striving for) shows. So here and there I did have to catch myself to not "do the wrong things" because as you and I both know, my voice can no longer take it. Not a smidgen. So here and there I did feel that if I wasn't careful I might "croak." Not pretty to say, but the truth. And even if it would have been only for a second, on a note here or there, it would've thrown me off for the rest of the night. I couldn't allow that.
So I did monitor myself whenever I "felt" something that I shouldn't have...It was also incredibly interesting to note things that are becoming clearer and clearer to me since I've been intensively working on my own (now that you're not around to guide me from week to week.) It's meant that I've had to develop this very intimate relationship with my voice and the work, and through that I've discovered things that I wasn't really getting to the bottom of before. Such as "sounds moving upward and backward"...hello! That's like the basis of your whole teaching. :-)
But for whatever reason, I was still stuck in my unconscious pattern of pushing or subconsciously thinking that sounds are moving forward!
I just realized how that's been true through all these years and I'm finally REALLY grasping – consciously AND subconsciously – what it really means that sounds are moving upwards and backwards!
And another very beautiful thing that I noticed as I was singing last night, is how I have still been tending to push – instead of SPEAK – on so many songs...out of old habits. And it applies to songs we've worked on 100 times, just as much as it does to songs we haven't worked on that much. But it was fascinating to observe it (as if from somewhere in the back of my mind, or as if from outside the "balloon") as I was actually singing these songs... Partially it was just my old habits and subconscious "beliefs" that sounds move forward and need to be "pushed out." And partially it was habits I've kept alive on certain parts of songs, like long notes at the end of a phrase or song, or high notes (especially long ones) like at the climax of a song.
I clearly saw these old habits for what they are basically because whenever any pushing started happening (from an old habit) I would start feeling it and feeling that I wasn't going to be able to hold it. A very strong and obvious feeling that I wouldn't be able to see the note through unless I focused on the word and intention – on SPEAKING it – instead of the sound (which engaged my old habits of pushing)! Very, very interesting.
But again, all in all the concert shocked me, and wowed my audience. I sold every CD I brought last night. And I kept hearing the praises of everyone there, from people I'd just met, to my friends & family, to the organizers of the event...and even from my musicians! Which is always extra special. :-) But most importantly, I heard my own praises that THE WORK DOES PAY OFF!!!!!
This stuff not only works, but it is the most magical approach to singing I've ever encountered. And it leaves you feeling like you've connected to a place you don't even know where it is, but you do know it's magical. And you do know it's the right place. You know that it holds the secret.
Love you,Elin
PS Get better so we can take this work (and this voice) to the next level!!!! Where a STAR is born...
TENORINO -Life is a Miracle...The VOICE is always FIRST
Just got a note from a very old friend...someone from, it seems another life, another time, someone I cared about deeply and always considered a friend...someone with the sweetest voice ...he did not identify himself, but I think I know...Ciro, am I right??? How sweet you are always....I am in Argentina for another two weeks...then home again...
Great things are happening on YouTube and MYSpace...people are watching, they are connecting and they are getting it!!...and it is making a difference. I just got a wonderful email from someone in California who has wanted to take lessons for quite a while now. He had read the book, listened to the CD but things just have not yet work out yet to meet personally - but they will, when the time is right.
So he started to view the master class, using the information and his "teacher" actually complimented him on his progress.
Things take time, I always have known that and it has taken me years to finally take on the whole world, but here we are and as I always believe and continue to do so: When the time is right, everything comes together. The Universe has its own cycles....it's own designs. It is now time for people to understand that the stuff that has been taught for the past 30/40 years has nothing to do with great singing - nothing! Wait till the new book comes out - as the song says: 'GET READY WORLD - HERE I COME!!!!"
The years of personal difficulty and strife have left their mark on me physically, that is for sure - my health is not what it should be and unfortunately I have no time to go and enjoy the sights of Buenos Aires since I am in the clinic about seven hours inland. At the moment I have another lung infection and taking incredibly strong anti-biotics - the second relapse in two months...however...notes and letters and comments and so much love from my students are giving me the strength as usual and soon I will be back again and there for all of you. The best is - with all of it - I feel so blessed and so happy and so strong and so lucky to be doing what I am doing and making a difference in peoples lives. The VOICE IS THE MIRACLE.
Share the wealth in the meantime...please blog and please review the Master Class over and over again...you will find a million little things that we have talked about and done...when you hear it again, it may well make a new impression..."blink, light bulb ON!!
Love to everyone I miss you terribly!!!
Great things are happening on YouTube and MYSpace...people are watching, they are connecting and they are getting it!!...and it is making a difference. I just got a wonderful email from someone in California who has wanted to take lessons for quite a while now. He had read the book, listened to the CD but things just have not yet work out yet to meet personally - but they will, when the time is right.
So he started to view the master class, using the information and his "teacher" actually complimented him on his progress.
Things take time, I always have known that and it has taken me years to finally take on the whole world, but here we are and as I always believe and continue to do so: When the time is right, everything comes together. The Universe has its own cycles....it's own designs. It is now time for people to understand that the stuff that has been taught for the past 30/40 years has nothing to do with great singing - nothing! Wait till the new book comes out - as the song says: 'GET READY WORLD - HERE I COME!!!!"
The years of personal difficulty and strife have left their mark on me physically, that is for sure - my health is not what it should be and unfortunately I have no time to go and enjoy the sights of Buenos Aires since I am in the clinic about seven hours inland. At the moment I have another lung infection and taking incredibly strong anti-biotics - the second relapse in two months...however...notes and letters and comments and so much love from my students are giving me the strength as usual and soon I will be back again and there for all of you. The best is - with all of it - I feel so blessed and so happy and so strong and so lucky to be doing what I am doing and making a difference in peoples lives. The VOICE IS THE MIRACLE.
Share the wealth in the meantime...please blog and please review the Master Class over and over again...you will find a million little things that we have talked about and done...when you hear it again, it may well make a new impression..."blink, light bulb ON!!
Love to everyone I miss you terribly!!!
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