As always, everyone's a critic ! :-) Singers need to be respectful of teachers and not jump to conclusions based on youtube clips that don't even cover the beginning of studying with Mr. Oswald. I study with Mark, and having known him for many years this is a teacher who deeply deeply cares about each of his singers and gives them only the best. A teacher or student who decides to bash another is clearly missing something in their own personal life and needs to grow up.
@Mercent123 Teachers need to be helpful and productive and if a singer is singing with bad technique it is his teachers fault, especially in New York where there are so many talented singers. Too many singers think it's their own fault when they have vocal problems. If a teacher cant' help you sing with your body and with less restriction, he is failing not you. A good voice teacher must be able to help everyone to a certain degree. Maybe he's a good teacher, this clip says nothing!!
Poor singing by all singers. All singers were over-pressurized and rigid as rocks. Demonstrations were so tight, I hurt just listening to them, let alone having to watch them so incorrectly done.
@Turridu25 like the great Cornelius Reid once said, modern vocal technique is a veneer of refinement. Levy learned a great technique from a brilliant voice teacher, he went out to teach the technique on his own and somewhere along the way thought it would be smart to degrade this brilliant teacher behind his back. The only problem is, Levy doesn't have it; the talent or the heart to teach the way his voice teacher taught him. His teachings are but a shadow of his Maestro.
@songsofscarlet HM, interesting, then tell me why Mr Levy seems to be the only one out there who is producing big voiced singers with big, long careers (not just one!). Without making a big deal out of himself and insulting people and talking behind people's back he is quietly producing one fantastic singer after another...What happened? Where you in-love with him and he turned you down? I could understand this, everyone seems to fall in-love with him, but don't be such a sour grape about it...
This is cool. You should give some professional advice to the Seaman Sisters. I ran across them and love their pure innocent sound. With some guidance they could go far! :)
I knew Mark in high school choral festivals. He has the most important quality in a voice teacher: he is kind. Having studied with overly technical voice teachers, I'll take kindness and support any day.
When students are truly talented everyone else suddenly becomes better singers with better technique and pundits of vocal technique. Pavarotti was one in a million and he wasn't made by his voice teacher! Anyone that call Mark Oswald "bs" needs to put a clip of their teaching up on youtube. And anyone that says these singers have horrible technique, please but your video up so we can see what "great technique" truly is. Otherwise, these comments looks like jealousy.
I am not sure I can fully answer those questions in a small space. By "collapsed" I mean that neither of the muscle groups that correspond two the two registers are fully engaged. Either they only partially engage the arytenoid group (chest) or partially engage the thyroid group (falsetto). So the singing does not have the squillante it should have. A pushed sound is one where the student has constriction in the sound that they are trying to overcome by forcing through it.
So you have to get that constriction out of the way by making sure the two registers are fully developed and coordinates so that the vocal mechanism is working efficiently. This produces a bigger, freer, squillante sound capable of movement and dynamics. You cannot fully engage a register that is either undeveloped or is not pure - that is improperly mixed.
All the singers I watched should be working on getting their registration coordinated which would fix most all of their technical issues. I hear a lot of collapsed singing; not fully engaging the registers properly in an attempt to skirt "pushing". Most teachers today do this because they do not know how to get the real culprit out of the way that causes "pushing". So they collapse instead.
Having watched many of the lessons on here I have yet to see him address one single technical issue. He takes great talents and does not do much with them at all. Otherwise why isn't the next "Pavarotti" or "Cappuccilli" coming from his studio? He has access to the talent. I have also sung with students of his. Major vocal issues.
@MrCafiero Yes, thankfully. Mark is a big fan of pulling down the larynx essentially by pushing it down with the back of the tongue. Listen to this young man and you can hear exactly that- and the breath is never free either. Many of Mark's best students have the same tension in their singing. AS for those who say, "well, he has a big reputation, he MUST be good" or the person who knew Mark years ago who said "Mark is kind," I can honestly say he is neither good nor kind.
@MightyTenor WOW! That is bad. Pushing down the back of the tongue to get the larynx low? Ridiculous. All it does is shove the hyoid bone onto the thyroid cartilage as well as limit the resonating ability of the pharyngeal cavity. People like this have no business teaching. They ruin or limit potentially great voices.
@MrCafiero He spoke often of creating "noble space" in the back. What it translated to was forcing the larynx down. In the end, I couldn't get through a single aria without being so tense I couldn't finish. This is the nature of many teachers on the NY scene: sort of Melocchi technique without the technique.
@MightyTenor "Noble space"? ROFL! As opposed to a "peasant space"? ROFL! Melocchi never would have had that in the sound. He was a stickler for vowels and squillante. I know the products of the NY scene and they all sound the same. Either constricted with a depressed larynx or light with a caprino alla Bill Schuman.
@MrCafiero I have studied with a student of Bill Schuman, actually, whom I have found to be very good indeed- and his students are singing all over the place and generally very well indeed. What do you mean by caprino?
@MightyTenor I cannot agree with the Schuman approach either. By caprino I mean a fluttery vibrato or tremolo. And the voices are light and lack scuro. You really have to go back and listen to the great singers of the past and then listen to these current singers and ask yourself what is the difference because there sure is one.
I think this is a coaching, not a lesson. That is why there is no technique only interp. I think....
cmunce 4 months ago
OMG! He's insane.
LazEstrada 9 months ago
JAYSUS!! Terrible rendition. My ears are bleeding and I'm a 19 year old female soprano!
Realteen 9 months ago
As always, everyone's a critic ! :-) Singers need to be respectful of teachers and not jump to conclusions based on youtube clips that don't even cover the beginning of studying with Mr. Oswald. I study with Mark, and having known him for many years this is a teacher who deeply deeply cares about each of his singers and gives them only the best. A teacher or student who decides to bash another is clearly missing something in their own personal life and needs to grow up.
Mercent123 10 months ago
@Mercent123 Teachers need to be helpful and productive and if a singer is singing with bad technique it is his teachers fault, especially in New York where there are so many talented singers. Too many singers think it's their own fault when they have vocal problems. If a teacher cant' help you sing with your body and with less restriction, he is failing not you. A good voice teacher must be able to help everyone to a certain degree. Maybe he's a good teacher, this clip says nothing!!
mahsef 8 months ago
Whoaaaooo, so much BBBBBB SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Turandotopera 11 months ago
i just started a free singing contest! prizes! enter!
FreeSingingContest 1 year ago
Onegin, there is a double ll in "stella" which has to be pronounced. Is that a NEWSFLASH for you? If so learn something before you comment.
Also, are you that dumb that you expect to see everything this guy teaching in a tiny video clip?
You have a computer to type into but not a brain Mr.or Ms. eugeneonegin.
lorifredrics 1 year ago
Poor singing by all singers. All singers were over-pressurized and rigid as rocks. Demonstrations were so tight, I hurt just listening to them, let alone having to watch them so incorrectly done.
DoctorofVoice 1 year ago
@Turridu25 like the great Cornelius Reid once said, modern vocal technique is a veneer of refinement. Levy learned a great technique from a brilliant voice teacher, he went out to teach the technique on his own and somewhere along the way thought it would be smart to degrade this brilliant teacher behind his back. The only problem is, Levy doesn't have it; the talent or the heart to teach the way his voice teacher taught him. His teachings are but a shadow of his Maestro.
songsofscarlet 1 year ago
@songsofscarlet HM, interesting, then tell me why Mr Levy seems to be the only one out there who is producing big voiced singers with big, long careers (not just one!). Without making a big deal out of himself and insulting people and talking behind people's back he is quietly producing one fantastic singer after another...What happened? Where you in-love with him and he turned you down? I could understand this, everyone seems to fall in-love with him, but don't be such a sour grape about it...
mahsef 8 months ago
@Turridu25 haha!! Levy!? okay....
songsofscarlet 1 year ago
This is cool. You should give some professional advice to the Seaman Sisters. I ran across them and love their pure innocent sound. With some guidance they could go far! :)
nutzoverviolin 1 year ago
I knew Mark in high school choral festivals. He has the most important quality in a voice teacher: he is kind. Having studied with overly technical voice teachers, I'll take kindness and support any day.
rsgracey 2 years ago
When students are truly talented everyone else suddenly becomes better singers with better technique and pundits of vocal technique. Pavarotti was one in a million and he wasn't made by his voice teacher! Anyone that call Mark Oswald "bs" needs to put a clip of their teaching up on youtube. And anyone that says these singers have horrible technique, please but your video up so we can see what "great technique" truly is. Otherwise, these comments looks like jealousy.
spintotenor83 2 years ago 3
I am not sure I can fully answer those questions in a small space. By "collapsed" I mean that neither of the muscle groups that correspond two the two registers are fully engaged. Either they only partially engage the arytenoid group (chest) or partially engage the thyroid group (falsetto). So the singing does not have the squillante it should have. A pushed sound is one where the student has constriction in the sound that they are trying to overcome by forcing through it.
MrCafiero 2 years ago
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MrCafiero 2 years ago
So you have to get that constriction out of the way by making sure the two registers are fully developed and coordinates so that the vocal mechanism is working efficiently. This produces a bigger, freer, squillante sound capable of movement and dynamics. You cannot fully engage a register that is either undeveloped or is not pure - that is improperly mixed.
MrCafiero 2 years ago
All the singers I watched should be working on getting their registration coordinated which would fix most all of their technical issues. I hear a lot of collapsed singing; not fully engaging the registers properly in an attempt to skirt "pushing". Most teachers today do this because they do not know how to get the real culprit out of the way that causes "pushing". So they collapse instead.
MrCafiero 2 years ago
Having watched many of the lessons on here I have yet to see him address one single technical issue. He takes great talents and does not do much with them at all. Otherwise why isn't the next "Pavarotti" or "Cappuccilli" coming from his studio? He has access to the talent. I have also sung with students of his. Major vocal issues.
MrCafiero 2 years ago
Well, if this is one of the premier teachers in your country... i'm sorry for you.
Esser amata amannnnnnnnnnnndo? Where did he learn this? What about the multiple l's in stella? stellllllllllllllla...
And yet, not a word about technique... is this what singing is about?
God, how much does he charge for a lesson?
eugeneonegin 3 years ago 2
2:24...wonderful singing by this Asian girl.
dasteufelhund 3 years ago 2
Is this what the Manhattan School of Music calls good voice teaching. Che peccato! I think the soprano is singing from Robert Devereux.
Gianni1929 3 years ago 8
This is one of the premier voice teachers in our country...stop acting like an A-hole Gianni1929.
4488mahler 3 years ago
lol
lumpylumps579 3 years ago
He doesn't address a single technical issue any of these singers have with their voices. It is total bs.
MrCafiero 3 years ago 5
@MrCafiero I studied with Oswald for two years, and wound up nearly voiceless as a result. A terrible teacher.
MightyTenor 1 week ago
@MightyTenor I cannot say I am surprised! I hope you got it back.
MrCafiero 1 week ago
@MrCafiero Yes, thankfully. Mark is a big fan of pulling down the larynx essentially by pushing it down with the back of the tongue. Listen to this young man and you can hear exactly that- and the breath is never free either. Many of Mark's best students have the same tension in their singing. AS for those who say, "well, he has a big reputation, he MUST be good" or the person who knew Mark years ago who said "Mark is kind," I can honestly say he is neither good nor kind.
MightyTenor 1 week ago
@MightyTenor WOW! That is bad. Pushing down the back of the tongue to get the larynx low? Ridiculous. All it does is shove the hyoid bone onto the thyroid cartilage as well as limit the resonating ability of the pharyngeal cavity. People like this have no business teaching. They ruin or limit potentially great voices.
MrCafiero 1 week ago
@MrCafiero He spoke often of creating "noble space" in the back. What it translated to was forcing the larynx down. In the end, I couldn't get through a single aria without being so tense I couldn't finish. This is the nature of many teachers on the NY scene: sort of Melocchi technique without the technique.
MightyTenor 1 week ago
@MightyTenor "Noble space"? ROFL! As opposed to a "peasant space"? ROFL! Melocchi never would have had that in the sound. He was a stickler for vowels and squillante. I know the products of the NY scene and they all sound the same. Either constricted with a depressed larynx or light with a caprino alla Bill Schuman.
MrCafiero 1 week ago
@MrCafiero I have studied with a student of Bill Schuman, actually, whom I have found to be very good indeed- and his students are singing all over the place and generally very well indeed. What do you mean by caprino?
MightyTenor 1 week ago in playlist Voice Lessons
@MightyTenor I cannot agree with the Schuman approach either. By caprino I mean a fluttery vibrato or tremolo. And the voices are light and lack scuro. You really have to go back and listen to the great singers of the past and then listen to these current singers and ask yourself what is the difference because there sure is one.
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cortezthemusic 3 years ago
What is the Asian lady singing ? I cannot remember and it pisses me off !
paminaase 3 years ago
She's singing All'Afflitto by Donizetti from Robert Devereux.
dwighty4u 3 years ago