VoiceBox: Recent Episodes

The VoiceBox Team

Exploring the art of singing and the best of the vocal music scene from the Bay Area and beyond.

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In “Aging Voices,” we speak to Colorado seniors whose voices have changed, their directors, and a professor who believes that singing when you're older is good for you. See more at: http://www.cpr.org/news/story/voicebox-colorado-seniors-sing-intellectual-spiritual-health

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In “Stuttering,” we speak to Ryan Pollard, an instructor at CU Boulder, and Tom Krueger, a choir leader in Denver, both of whom have lived with a stutter since they were young.  

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VoiceBox is a sound-rich exploration of the human voice. In each five-minute episode, host Chloe Veltman, reporter Alyssa Kapnik and sound engineer Seth Samuel explore pitch and harmony, meet shouters, singers, announcers and stutterers, and ponder the meaning and importance of the most primal of musical instruments.

In “Auctioneering,” we meet Colorado Auctioneers Hall of Famer Steve Linnebur and Al Carlson, a long-time auction attendee from Golden, Colorado. We also meet Justin Ochs, an auctioneer from Tennessee.

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(Re-run: This program originally aired on September 20, 2013)

Jazz vocalist and Grammy Awards board member Kitty Margolis discusses how she helps aspiring jazz singers develop their improvisation chops.

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(Re-run: This program originally aired on September 6, 2013)

The versatile Welsh vocalist Charlotte Church chats with Chloe Veltman about how she morphed from being one of the world’s most successful child sopranos to finding her voice in the indie rock space.

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(Re-run: This program originally aired on June 21, 2013)

Ever since Cher scored a hit with “Believe” in 1998, Auto-Tune, a digital tool which helps singers adjust their vocal pitch, has become a ubiquitous presence in the pop music world. Join Andy Hildebrand, the inventor of Auto-Tune, for a discussion about the tool’s legacy and future.

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(Re-run: This program originally aired on June 14, 2013)

Opera blogger Charlise Tiee (Opera Tattler) and musical theatre blogger Chad Jones (Theater Dogs) discuss the often porous line that exists between the worlds of musical theatre and opera.

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(Re-run: program initially aired on November 23, 2012)

Bob Dylan’s voice has been compared to sandpaper and described as "a catarrhal death rattle." Blues music aficionado Devon Strolovitch discusses the colors of Dylan's vocal instrument.

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Virtuoso whistler and music journalist Jason Victor Serinus chats about the art of whistling and making a career out of this oft derided vocal art form.

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(Re-run: This program originally aired on March 29, 2013)

Singer and early vocal recordings champion Meredith Axelrod chats about the vocalists who pioneered recorded sound technologies in the early twentieth century and the revival of interest in singing and recording techniques from this period today.

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(Re-run: This program originally aired on March 8, 2013)

Erin Bregmann of the Little Opera Company, a San Francisco-based organization that creates operas from scratch with grade school students, Ruth Nott, director of education for the San Francisco Opera, and Graham Welch, a professor of music education at The University of London and a major force behind the UK’s Sing Up! Initiative to inculcate singing in schools, talk about why vocal music education matters and off-the-beaten track ways to get kids participating.

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(Re-run: This program originally aired on March 1, 2013)

Vocalists Riffat Sultana and Sukhawat Ali Khan, siblings who come from a lauded lineage of Pakistani singers, (their father is the Pakistani musical icon Ustad Salamat Ali Khan) discuss their rich vocal music journey from Hindustani classical music to banghra.

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(Re-run: This program originally aired on February 15, 2013)

Acclaimed mezzo-soprano Laurie Rubin discusses what it takes to lead a successful career as a singer when you're blind and how other sight-impaired vocalists such as Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles and Andrea Bocelli have made world-class names for themselves in a world that's so deeply vision-oriented.

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(Re-run: This program originally aired on February 1, 2013)

Aaron Humble and Adam Reinwald, who sing with Cantus, one of only two full-time professional men’s choruses in the country, share their thoughts about the culture of the male singing voice in the United States and elsewhere and how they promote singing to young people, especially boys.

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(Re-run: This program originally aired on January 4, 2013)

Voice Speech pathologist and American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA) member Sarah Schneider, 'scream' coaching expert Melissa Cross and thrash metal singer Steve Souza (Hatriot, Dublin Death Patrol, Exodus, Legacy/Testament) chat about the physical risks of screaming and how artists who have to raise their voices on a regular basis can do so safely.

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(Re-run: This program originally aired on November 25, 2011)

There’s more to the relationship between surfing and singing than Beach Boys songs in praise of surf culture. Join chorus director and surfing enthusiast Bob Geary and VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman to find out more.

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(Re-run: This program originally aired on December 23, 2011)

The holiday season wouldn’t be the same without a trip to the local movie theatre for a Singalong Sound of Music or Singalong West Side Story. Join performer and impresario Laurie Bushman, the host of the famous singalong soirees at San Francisco’s Castro Theatre, and VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman, for a look at the culture of the singalong and what makes these events so much fun.

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(Re-run: This program originally aired on December 16, 2011)

The roots of much western music today lie in the haunting sacred vocal music of Medieval Europe. Join Susan Hellauer, a member of the world-renowned a cappella vocal ensemble Anonymous 4, and VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman, for a journey into the history and technique of chant.

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(Re-run: This program originally aired on August 12, 2011)

Believe it or not, ventriloquists used to be a popular fixture on the radio airwaves. Chloe Veltman welcomes playwright and theatrical impresario Sean Owens, ventriloquist Ron Coulter and Ron’s puppet partner of 60 years, Sid Star, for a discussion about the art, technique and culture of throwing your voice.

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(Re-run: This program originally aired on August 5, 2011)

Vienna isn’t the only place where boys sing like angels. The Bay Area and other parts of this country boast some formidable choruses made up of talented young male singers. Kevin Fox, the founding artistic director of the Pacific Boychoir Academy based in Oakland joins VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman for a chat about the defining characteristics of boys’ voices and the ins and outs of training them en masse.

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(Re-run: This program originally aired on July 15, 2011)

The process of bringing a star recitalist to town for a concert is as thrilling as it is complex. Ruth Felt, the founder and president of the presenting organization San Francisco Performances joins VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman for an exploration of what it takes to keep audiences – and divas – happy.

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(Re-run: This program originally aired on July 8, 2011)

Music history and culture is full of famous singing families, from the von Trapps to The Jackson Five. Join singing siblings Jennifer and Laurie Hall of the band Ruby Howl and VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman for a discussion about the power of sharing the mike with the people you grew up with.

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(Re-run: This program originally aired on June 24, 2011)

High school choruses are the place where many kids get their musical education. And with TV shows like “Glee” whipping up enthusiasm for group singing among teens, high school choir is finally becoming hip. VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman chats with Steven Hankle, chorus teacher at San Francisco’s Mission High School; and Todd Wedge, chorus teacher at San Francisco's School Of The Arts; about the ins and outs of their jobs.

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(Re-run: This program originally aired on July 1, 2011) In Hawaiian Hula, singing and dancing going hand in hand. Join Patrick Makuakane, director of Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu, a hula a hula school and performance company based in San Francisco, and VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman, for a journey into this ancient artistic tradition.

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(Re-run: This program originally aired on May 27, 2011) Shakespeare praised women with low voices for good reason. Join the deep-souled songstress Melanie DeMore and VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman for a celebration of some of the world’s most wonderful women vocalists who make the space below the alto line firmly their own.

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(Re-run: This program originally aired on May 6, 2011) Composers are increasingly asking vocal groups to accompany themselves on a variety of instruments. David Lang’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Little Match Girl Passion is a case in point. What about the other way around? Join the members of The Real Vocal Ensemble, a string quartet that specializes in singing while playing, and VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman for an exploration of how to combine these two distinct skills to make beautiful music.

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(Re-run: This program originally aired on April 22, 2011) The magnificent American mezzo soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, who had strong ties to the Bay Area, and died at a young age in 2006, is beloved by classical music industry insiders, but isn’t as well known to the broad public as she ought to be. Hard on the heels of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra’s CD release of Hunt Lieberson’s interpretations of Handel arias and Les Nuits D’ete by Berlioz recorded in the 1990s, Philharmonia Baroque’s music director, Nicholas McGegan, joins VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman for a profile of this unforgettable vocalist.

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(Re-run: This program originally aired on August 19, 2011) Children love to sing. But sometimes they can fall into bad habits if they don’t have parents or teachers to help them figure out how to look after their voices from a young age. Voice experts and American Speech Language Hearing Association members Sarah Schneider and Katherine Verdolini Abbott join VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman for a look at how kids’ voices work and what keeps them safe when they sing.

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(Re-run: This program originally aired on January 7, 2011) Many songs from the world of musical theatre go on to enjoy successful second lives on the pop charts. Theatre journalist Chad Jones joins VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman for an exploration of some of the most memorable show tune crossovers in musical theatre history and what it takes for a song to leap beyond the footlights.

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(Re-run: This program originally aired on April 8, 2011) The sign of a great musical play is humming a song you heard at the theatre three days previously. Join theatre composer Dave Malloy and VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman for a look at the nuts and bolts of writing a memorable show tune.

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(Re-run: This program originally aired on February 25, 2011) Alongside arias from operas, lieder, a type of art song developed in Germany in the 19th century, are a beloved staple of a classically-trained singer’s repertoire. VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman is joined in the studio by Maxine Bernstein, founder of Lieder Alive!, a Bay Area-based music series dedicated to furthering the art of lieder, and Kindra Scharich, a recitalist and opera singer who loves to perform lieder, for an exploration of this lyrical art form.

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(Re-run: This program originally aired on February 11, 2010) Learning to play the piano while singing isn’t easy. It requires years of practice and the ability to multitask, rather like playing a drum-kit. Join Bay Area chanteuse and pianist Jill Tracy and VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman for a conversation about how to combine these two distinct skills to make beautiful music.

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(Re-run: This program originally aired on January 28, 2011) Singing electronic rock and dance music requires particular skills from a vocalist. Vocalist Danny Lannon and guitarist Rob Pera, of the San Francisco-based electropop band, The Frail, join VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman for a discussion about how working with synthesizers and other electronic instruments affects vocal production and repertoire.

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(Re-run: This program originally aired on March 11, 2011) Many of the pop cannon’s most treasured vocal music standards were penned by women composers in the first half of the last century. Vocalist and songwriter Pamela Rose joins Chloe Veltman in the studio for a discussion about Peggy Lee, Alberta Hunter and some of the other “wild women of song” whose work has endured over the decades.

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(Re-run: This program originally aired on September 2, 2011)

If you missed last week's show, it is available on demand via kalw's online music player throughout this week. Click here and scroll down to the VoiceBox link to access the latest broadcast.

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(Re-run: program initially aired on April 1, 2011) Traveling is part of everyday life for professional singers. But touring can be challenging to vocalists from a health perspective. VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman invites voice therapists and American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA) members Sarah Schneider and Joanna Cazden for a conversation about how vocalists can cope with such hazards as cramped tour buses and airless planes to stay healthy on the road.

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VoiceBox and Dogfish Head Craft Brewery join forces for another unforgettable interactive journey into the rich global link between drinking ale and singing songs. Featuring The Fill A Steins men’s vocal ensemble, certified beer cicerone Sayre Piotrkowski and VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman. Recorded live before a studio audience at 50 Mason Social House in San Francisco on May 29, 2013.

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Vocalist Linda Tillery, artistic director of the Cultural Heritage Choir, and Sam Edwards and Lyvonne Chrisman, founders of Friends of Negro Spirituals, discuss the African roots of the word "spiritual" and the vocal music traditions that led to -- and came out of -- the development of this quintessentially American vocal art form.

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Voice health experts Soha Al-Jurf, Shirley Gherson and Sarah Schneider explore vocal healthcare trends around the world and chat about the extent to which vocal healthcare is widely accessible to people all over the globe or whether it's predominantly a first world phenomenon.

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Voice-speech therapist Sarah Schneider talks about how voice care professionals work with their ears to gauge vocal problems and the role that listening plays in treating voice disorders in our predominantly visual-oriented culture.

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William Meredith, director of Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies at San Jose State University, chats about the brilliance of Beethoven’s vocal masterworks, which tend to garner less attention than the composer’s symphonies.

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Dr. Krzysztof Izdebski, the founder and chairman of the Pacific Voice and Speech Foundation, chats about the evolution of voice care as a branch of medicine and how the often-overlapping network of laryngologists, speech pathologists, singing voice specialists, vocologists, singing teachers, voice coaches and other experts all play a role in ensuring that patients receive the care they need to be able to use their voices fully once again.

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Transgendered vocalists Eli Conley and Ashey Moore talk about how singers can successfully negotiate the shift from singing as a male to singing as a female and vise-versa.

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Urban designers John Matthew Francis and Ross Hansen, the creative forces behind a new kind of mobile stage that can be assembled out of the back of a van in half an hour, Dr. Paul Simpson, a lecturer in human geography at Keele University, UK, and street performer Nick Jones discuss the dynamics of the urban performance environment.

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Cariwyl Hebert, the founder of Salon97, a Bay Area-based organization that creates listening parties and other events for people who are curious about classical music, transforms KALW's Studio B into a setting ripe for a careening discussion about four iconoclastic composers and their greatest vocal works.

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Melissa Czarnik, an emcee and poet from Milwaukee, and her producer, Eric Mire, chat about the musicality of rap.

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Stanford music professor Jesse Rodin discusses the luminous polyphonic style of the great Renaissance composer Josquin des Prez and what it means to truly “know” a piece of Renaissance vocal music.

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Husband and wife vocal artists Nicki and Tim Bluhm talk about what it takes to sing and live as a duo and explore the history of famous duetting couples.

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Prerna Gupta, a vocalist and the CEO of Khush, a startup that creates digital tools for singers like Songify and AutoRap, talks about how the latest apps for smartphones and tablets are changing the way singers approach their craft.

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Randall Kline, director of the San Francisco Jazz Organization (SFJAZZ), and jazz vocalist Tiffany Austin, discuss what the launch of San Francisco’s new jazz center, the country’s only free-standing building dedicated to jazz in the United States, will mean for vocal artists.

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Ken Malucelli, a carol composer and the director of The Merrie Olde Christmas Carolers, a nationally-franchised caroling group, and jazz musician / Christmas music aficionado Tim Lewis, chat about how to write and perform heartwarming winter holiday songs.

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Lara Downes, a renowned pianist and the artistic director of the Mondavi Center Young Artists’ Competition which this year focuses on vocal performance, and John Neal, the director of the Harmony Sweepstakes national a cappella tournament, discuss why singing competitions matter.

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Composer and arts blogger Brian Rosen explores election season songs and the history of presidential candidates’ singing skills.

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The thought of singing in public scares even the most self-assured people out of their wits. Psychiatrist Jerome Oremland, vocal coach Mark Bosnian, Beth Pinney, worship leader at Laguna Presbyterian Church in Laguna Beach, CA, and journalist Michelle Holmes, explore why so many of us are afraid to sing as well as innovative techniques for helping people to overcome their hang-ups and belt out a tune with confidence. Program generously underwritten by Meyer Sound.

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Venezuelan vocalist Jimmy Kansau takes listeners on a journey through the music of early to mid 20th century Latin America and the Caribbean.

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There are countless ways in which voice as been used within yoga over the last several thousands of years, including Vedic hymns, tantric mantra, devotional chant, Indian raga and more. Yoga and singing instructor Ann Dyer talks about how and why these ancient practices are relevant today and how they can make professional singers better performers.

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Library of Congress vocal music specialist James Wintle joins VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman (who’s spending the summer as a Research Fellow on the ‘Songs of America Project’ at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC) for a discussion about how singers and singing group directors can use the LOC's astounding vocal music collection to create unusual and exciting programming choices.

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On her East coast travels, Chloe Veltman meets Tim Harrington and Paul Wright of the vocal and guitar/cello duo Tall Heights for a conversation about the street music scene in Boston.

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Concetta Tomaino, executive director and co-founder of the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function in New York and Indre Viskontas, a Bay Area-based opera singer with a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles in cognitive neuroscience, discuss the profound connection between our minds and voices.

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Helene Whitson, director of the Bay Area Choral Music Archive, digs deep into the depths of her enormous choral music collection to share some of the global choral music scene’s most difficult-to-come-by recordings.

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Monika Jalili, an American vocalist specializing in the Persian repertoire, and Briget Boyle, a singer of Irish extraction who is a member of the acclaimed Balkan vocal ensemble Kitka, explore the triumphs and challenges of singing the repertoire of cultures far removed from their own.

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Chloe, Erika and Rachel Tietjen of the T Sisters, an Oakland-based singing group, together with vocalist Melody Walker, talk about how voices can create lush harmonic vistas.

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Concert presenter Therese Davis (aka Ms Momo), who founded The Songbird Festival in 2009 to celebrate local vocal artists, discusses some of her favorite Bay Area vocal acts.

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VoiceBox celebrates Woody Guthrie's centennial birthday with conversation and song when Peter Glazer, professor of Performance Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and creator of the stage show Woody Guthrie's American Song, shares his thoughts on the seminal American folk artist.

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Bob Geary, who heads up The Golden Gate International Children’s and Youth Choral Festival, shares the music of youth choirs participating in this year’s event from China, the United States, Indonesia, Georgia and other countries.

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Laryngologist Mark Courey and voice pathologist Sarah Schneider explain what happens when professional singers undergo voice surgery from the operating theater to the all-important rehab process. Program generously underwritten by The American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA).

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Fach, a method for classifying a classically trained singer’s vocal “type,” can be both a blessing and a curse to a singer’s career. The San Francisco Opera Center’s Sheri Greenawald discusses the workings of fach and how it can change over the course of a vocalist’s lifetime.

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Actresses Barbra Streisand and Meryl Streep are the main focus of a discussion about great actors who also happen to be great singers with Chad Jones, theatre critic and performing arts blogger, and vocalist Ann Hampton Callaway. Program generously underwritten by The San Francisco Symphony.

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Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, VoiceBox, the Fill A Steins men’s a cappella ensemble and beer cicerone Sayre Piotrkowski present an interactive exploration of the ancient global connection between singing and beer. Recorded before a live audience at 50 Mason Social House in San Francisco on May 16.

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Peter Varshavsky of Porto Franco Records and Avi Ehrlich of Silver Sprocket Records present a candid view of the highs and lows of running a record label for singers.

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College a cappella experts Charlie Forkish, Bill Hare, Deke Sharon, Mickey Rapkin and Will Tarpeh exchange thoughts on the current state of the booming college a cappella scene.

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Bay Area Choral Director founder Helene Whitson explores some of the best choral music CD releases of the past year.

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Carola Zertuche, artistic director of San Francisco’s Theatre Flamenco, and Nina Menendez, artistic director of the Bay Area Flamenco Festival, chart the impact of vocal music on Spain’s flamenco tradition.

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Composer and blogger Brian Rosen discusses the worst songs in the world and what makes them so bad.

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Stanford Music Professor Stephen Hinton discusses the vocal music of Kurt Weill and the singers who have helped to seal the German composer’s reputation over decades.

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Matt Lombardi and Jamie Freedman of Hear It Local, an online resource that connects artists, venues and audiophiles, curate a program featuring some of their favorite female vocalists from the Bay Area music scene.

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When you’re the one standing in front of the mike, it’s easy to feel like you’re the center of the universe. But communicating properly with your band members is absolutely key to giving a successful performance. Jazz vocalist Ellen Robinson and instrumentalists Sam Bevan and Kristen Strom join VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman for a discussion about the subtle yet powerful art of communication that takes place between great singers and the great instrumentalists that surround them.

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Song is deeply ingrained in this country’s cultural identity. The celebrated American baritone Thomas Hampson joins VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman for a discussion about how the poetic and sonic legacy of vocal music has shaped American culture across the centuries.

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Every voice specialist knows that if you want to sing healthily, you first have to be able to speak healthily. Join VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman and American Speech Language Hearing Association voice experts Sarah Schneider and Joanna Cazden for a conversation about the connection between the two ways we use our voices.

This episode of VoiceBox is generously underwritten by the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA). Visit www.asha.org for more information.

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The United States tend to dominate the pop a cappella scene these days thanks to the appeal of TV shows like The Sing Off and the growth of the college a cappella movement in this country. But Europe is an equally vital place for the genre, as Tine Frise, a member of the Danish vocal ensemble Postyr Project, explains in conversation with VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman.

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The Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival has become a favorite annual event on the Bay Area cultural calendar, attracting a top-tier lineup of vocal artists from the world of bluegrass music and beyond. Banjo player, bluegrass music aficionado and festival founder Warren Hellman joins VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman for an exploration of the best bluegrass vocalists around today and standout artists working in related genres.

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The Bay Area is packed with brilliant singer-songwriters, but many of us aren’t aware of the talent right here on our doorstep. As part of an ongoing series of special programs showcasing the artistry of local singer-songwriters, VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman and Robin Applewood and Charlie Wilson, co-producers of Songwriters Unplugged, a weekly singer-songwriter event at Yoshi’s jazz club in San Francisco, sample the music of some of the finest Bay Area artists around.

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Boasting more than 500 choirs, The Bay Area is agog with choral ensembles. As part of an ongoing series celebrating the local choral scene, join Helene Whitson, co-author of the San Francisco Bay Area Chorus Directory and founder of the San Francisco Bay Area Choral Archive and VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman for a listen to some of the best Bay Area choruses around on the scene today.

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Choral singing is a pursuit of millions of people in this country, though the art form gets little mainstream attention. Ann Meier Baker, President and Chief Executive Officer of Chorus America, takes time out of the her busy Chorus America Conference schedule (the event is happening in San Francisco this year from June 8-11) to share her views about choral singing today and what the future holds for the choral arts with VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman.

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(Re-run: program initially aired on April 15, 2011) The art of opera translation is subtle yet crucial. Get it right, and the audience feels like they’re experiencing the work with as much richness as the original; get it wrong, and there’s no music to be heard. Mairi McLaughlin, Assistant Professor of French and Linguistics at UC Berkeley and Donald Pippin, director and founder of San Francisco’s Pocket Opera, join VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman for a discussion about what makes English translations of operas written in languages like Italian and French work – and what doesn’t.

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Ornamentation has been a staple of vocal music for hundreds if not thousands of years. Join composer and writer Brian Rosen and VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman for a discussion about the ways in which singers (and composers) adorn melodies – and the factors that separate memorable from forgettable embellishments.

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Founded in March 1941, San Francisco's KALW appeared on the airwaves in a year that was rich in melody. VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman takes a step back in time for a special KALW anniversary celebration featuring some of the year’s biggest hits -- and more quirky offerings.

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Many vocalists go for years without realizing that they have nodes on their vocal folds or other career-threatening ailments. Sarah Schneider, a speech language pathologist at the University of California at San Francisco Voice and Swallowing Center and a member of the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA), and Chloe Veltman. VoiceBox host, explore the ways in which vocal therapy is helping singers do their work all over the world.

(this episode originally aired in 2010)

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With the summer concert season in full swing, vocalists are in danger of straining their voices more than ever as they try to reach those carousing outdoor crowds.  Sarah Schneider, a speech language pathologist at the UCSF Voice and Swallowing Center, discusses the best ways for singers to look after their most important asset and common myths associated with vocal healthcare.

(this episode originally aired in 2010)