“The introduction to this pedagogic treatise reads like a detective novel. Those interested in historical vocal pedagogy will find this volume fascinating, and all serious students of voice will benefit from the succinct and straight-forward instruction offered by Klein.”

““This is much more than just a piece of vocal archaeology. It takes the art of teaching back to foundational elements of voice training: no acoustic analysis, airflow studies, no closed quotients—only simple concepts and effective exercises that are tried and true, developed through decades of trial and error and proven over scores of years in studios all over the world. Would that our voice teaching profession take heed and return to simple things as presented in this little book.”

“Daniel Shigo is the vocal Indiana Jones!”

“This is a valuable reissue of a major course of vocal study by a pupil of one of the most famous teachers of all time.”

“He taught a style that was irreproachable in its purity, irresistible in its charm; and his treatment of the Mozart or the Rossini aria was a perfect model of the highest and most accurate tradition. He knew exactly how every and where every turn, every gruppetto, every appoggiatura, every tiny nuance had been executed under the composer’s direction, and to acquire that knowledge from Manuel Garcia was to obtain it from the fountain head and with a measure of authority that no other living being could have the right to dispute.”

“There was always room for such beautiful voices as America produced, provided they were produced and trained in accordance with the great recognized principals—the one and only true method—of the art of singing. I wish that people would disabuse their minds of the notion that there is, or can be, any new system of so-called voice production, or even any satisfactory modification or development or pre-existing theories on this subject.”