Translated: Seize the day, and put very little trust in tomorrow

Popular culture uses the phrase to justify reckless behaviour (you only live once). However, the meaning of Carpe diem is not to ignore the future, but rather not to trust that everything is going to fall into place for you by learning to control the now.

By ignoring the future and only living for the now, the singer is opening a space which was designed by Nature to keep closed. Contemporary singing now becomes a "protective resemblance" of the art. It is a physically manipulative--"throw the baby out with the bathwater" attitude. No vision of the future-- ignoring past greatness.

PROBLEM

Vocal education ignores attention to the old conventions. When we defy these conventions we have cut off the security these natural conventions offered us. Great restraint is needed to allow effortless mastery to happen.

OPEN UP - DON'T SEIZE UP

Tom Schilling, May 28, 2020