Excerpt from Five Years of Vocal Study Under Fernando Michelena My Five years of vocal study under the late Fernando Michelena, may be described in brief, as five years of earnest but extremely pleasant work; five years which meant more to my health and education, than any other study or association. I now realize more than ever, the value of those all too brief years; in fact, to be exact, it lacked about one month of being five years; for I took my first lesson on April 7, 1916, and continued until the time of Michelena's death, which occurred on March 4, 1921; having taken my last lesson a few days before his untimely and sudden passing. I will add here, that Fernando Michelena was my first and last teacher; for prior to taking lessons from him, I had merely investigated the method of another teacher who happened to live in my home town, very quickly seeing, untutored though I was, that she lacked the requisites of a finished vocalist. Immediately I gave up all thought of taking lessons from her, and began my first instruction, wholly untrained, with the master Michelena. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Five Years of Vocal Study Under Fernando Michelena Fernando Michelena, may be described in brief, as five years of earnest but extremely pleasant work; five years which meant more to my health and educa tion, than any other study or association. I now realize more than ever, the value of those all too brief years; in fact, to be exact, it lacked about one month of being five years; for I took my first lesson on April 7, 1916, and continued until the time of Michelena's death, which occurred on March 4, 1921 having taken my last lesson a few days before his untimely and sudden passing. I will add here, that Fernando Michelena was my first and last teacher; for prior to taking lessons from him, I had merely investigated the method of another teacher who happened to live in my home town, very quickly seeing, untutored though I was, that she lacked the requisites of a finished vocalist. Immediately I gave up all thought of taking lessons from her, and began my first instruction, wholly untrained, with the master Michelena. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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