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A few really nice things happened to me prior to my graduation from ACAT, The American Center for the Alexander Technique . On the way, I became a father to the delightful Elisabeth, grandfather to her two amazing children Luke and Julia. I was appointed to teaching positions at a few prestigious music schools, California State University, Northridge for one, and I sang in some memorable performances, one at Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival that Time Magazine called the performance of the decade. I was reviewed in Opera News, The Los Angeles Times, and Musical America. I remember the good ones, brilliant high notes, intelligence and facility, the bad ones, not so much.

The study of the Alexander Technique has changed pretty much everything for me, my walking, speaking, my personal interactions, my whole outlook. Prior to my study of the technique, part of my being tall was being ungrounded and uncoordinated. My very first lessons awakened an entirely different sense. I remember walking down Broadway after one of those lessons, in touch with the ground, propelled forward by some newly awakened engine in my legs. Walking was great recreation and it continues to be.

Prior to my study of the Alexander Technique I suffered from acute back pain that left me incapacitated for days, lying on the floor with scarcely the ability to crawl. These attacks have lessened in severity and frequency until, I am happy to say, they are a thing of the past.

While students still come to me for voice lessons, others are coming for lessons in The Alexander Technique alone. They are learning what others before them have learned, that simple steps toward the mastery of small things are ripples that touch every shore of our experience.

Today, my wife Susan and I think we have the best of both worlds, an apartment in New York City where I maintain a studio for teaching and a place in the country where we can both garden, and where I can teach and enjoy my collection of antique phonographs (see a great, old Victrola). Thanks for dropping by.