Dear Editor: As a NATS member, I received [the September] issue. It’s been a while since I thoroughly read the magazine, and I want to thank you and compliment you on the contents: wide-ranging, well written, and very useful, not just to my students but to me and my colleagues! You have vastly improved the magazine in the last couple of years. Thank you very much.
Keep up the great work!
—John Stewart, St. Louis, Missouri
Dear Editor: Natalie Dessay is a wonderful artist whose performances I have enjoyed at the Met and on recordings. I’m a big fan. So when I read her tasteless remarks about “overweight” American singers who are supposedly “horrible” onstage in the September issue of Classical Singer, I was dismayed and deeply disappointed. Ms. Dessay has performed all over the world alongside fabulous singers of many nationalities who are far from thin. Did Ms. Dessay mean to insult her fellow artists? I think she should apologize for her insensitive comments.
—Luana Lewis, Bronxville, New York
Errata
Corrections to the 2009 University Directory printed in the September issue:
On p. 99, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music listing information is current for the 2009-2010 academic year. The highest degree offered is a DMA, not a BM as printed.
On p. 99, Ball State University’s highest degrees offered are a DA and AD, and the school produces two operas annually instead of one, as was printed.
On p. 101, Northeastern State University’s website was listed incorrectly. The correct site is www.nsuok.edu.
