Grace Bumbry issues a warning
NewsMessage received:
Dear all,
I write this message with great concern!!! It has come to my ears that there are singers who are teaching a singing method called Bumbry Method. From what I’ve heard they are crazy and wrong ideas that are far from what I would teach.
I ask you to understand that I take my work as a teacher very seriously, contributing my knowledge after 50 years of career on the stage. I would never give a letter of recommendation if I really do not believe that person is capable of doing a good job as a teacher. I know that the future of young singers depends on good teaching and that it is a great responsibility. At the moment I have not given any letter for these purpose.
Please if someone comes to you with that Bumbry Method idea, don’t believe it.
Thank you for your attention,
Dr Grace Bumbry KS
Surely Ms Bumbry should investigate this matter thoroughly; find out whether it is true or not; and get her solicitors to issue cease-and-desist letters to the practitioners, should there be any truth in it?
Any good decent teacher will know that anyone advertising any sort of ‘method’ or odd ‘schools’ of singing is simply on the bandwagon of teaching and its all big business and overpriced. You only have to look at YouTube and see what’s around from Swedish now to Bumbry, particuarly from America. The trouble is students get taken in by it all, clasp onto straws, folloq the flavpur of the month, and don’t know the difference. Then waste a lot of money or time. Disgraceful that people are now using and advertising Grace Bumbry’s singing and name as a ‘method.’
Was worth wading through all this just for “clasp onto straws…”
You can’t make this stuff up.
Undoubtedly this was to be the replacement for Trump University.
Perhaps it is a misunderstanding owing to a typo, and the method in question is actually known as The Bunbury Method.
Oh chapeau, Steven!
Exactly! It’s not even her method or the way she sang but using her name in vain to make pots of money and entice gullible students looking for a quick fix and a short cut to a star career, but then end up down a blind alley and broke.
Let’s hear it for Amazing Grace!
I’ve never met Miss Brumbry, but I don’t think I’d cross her…
Here’s the only method that matters. “You only have to think the tune to have it come out perfectly clear.”
Meredith Willson
and completely off pitch
Dr?
There are so many unqualified people pretending to be voice teachers, it is sad. Unfortunately, it is difficult to convey that to their students because badmouthing another teacher is also a “method” used by such people and one does not want to engage in that kind of thing…
Perhaps was it a misunderstanding – it might be called the Bumble Method.