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" Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer. "
Early
More
Art
" Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do. "
Teachers
Great
Good
" Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin? "
Place
Bridge
Help
" For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.' "
Teach
Me
You
" Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate. "
Performance
Capacity
Focus
" If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics. "
Rest
Feminists
Another
" I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me. "
Myself
Culture
Words
" I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege. "
Privilege
White
Think
" I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of my favorite songs. "
Come
I Am
Love
" It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette. "
Ranch
Texas
Thousand
" It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them. "
Gratitude
Finding
Work
" I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices. "
Voices
Purpose
Discover
" My two great loves are music and horses. "
Two
Loves
Horses
" Our stories are different; our pain is the same. "
Different
Stories
Same
" So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn't believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist. "
Identity
Believe
Passion
" T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice. "
Own
Voice
Worth
" T Bone is genius. The way they've recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is really quite extraordinary. "
Way
Bone
Extraordinary
" The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people. "
Rights
Pure
People
" There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer. "
Singer
Professional
Maintenance
" The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life. "
Live
Gift
Life
" The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential. "
Life
Done
Work
" We can't compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do. "
Only
Stories
Know
" Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert. "
Singer
Man
Well
" When there's an opportunity to do more, we must. "
Opportunity
More
Must
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