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Moonstruck and Jan DeGaetani
I know. I’ve been mighty silent. Writing is hard for me. Always has been. Lay a new full-time high school teaching job on top, and well, you get the picture. But I am surfacing. Honestly, I’ve never slept better. It’s … Continue reading
Jan DeGaetani’s Life Lessons
Friends, I recently chatted with soprano Karen Holvik whom I first met in the fall of 1980, my first semester in Jan’s studio. I was eighteen; Karen had just completed her graduate degree the spring before and was headed to her … Continue reading
Radio Days
Friends, These last two weeks, I’ve jumped into a new teaching job. I’m teaching college writing to seniors at Oxford High School in Oxford, Mississippi. I’m beat! A week of training. Everything is online, multiple programs to learn, new building, … Continue reading
Jan DeGaetani and Water
Good Morning, Friends, Here’s a little piece I worked on this morning: Hawk Baritone Tom Paul, asks me, “Did you know Jan was fascinated by Osprey?” I shake my head no. “She loved them.” I find this question scribbled … Continue reading
Jan DeGaetani, July 10, 1933
Oh my. I’ve never been good at birthdays. I gave up a long time ago. My sister makes an annual calendar with photographs; she’s never sent one to me. I’m not mad. I think she knows I’ll forget all the … Continue reading
Jan DeGaetani and Dance
Hello, Friends, As promised, here’s some work about Jan’s use of dance and movement as a singer and teacher. * I wonder if people remember how committed Jan was to the soundness of her physicality. How upright and easy her … Continue reading
Jan DeGaetani and Turnau Opera Players
Hello, Friends, This week, I’ve thrown myself back into research mode as I piece together Jan’s steps from Juilliard in 1955 to the year her first marriage to Tom DeGaetani ended sometime in the early 60’s. Gems. Open one more … Continue reading
Jan DeGaetani and Composer Pia Gilbert
First, Friends, an update: I’ve been in my new Mississippi home for three weeks, and I love it. Last night, I sat on my blue porch as the sun set, watching fireflies spark. My dad and I had brought buckets … Continue reading
Jan DeGaetani Juilliard Student 1951-1955
Friends, Some more work on the Juilliard years: If you encounter a great teacher once in your lifetime, you are one of the blessed. I can count many, many, among them Henry Brant, Norman Lloyd, and from my earliest years, … Continue reading
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