I'm looking forward to reading your comments about the DVDs.

As to working on my head register, did you mean the G above middle C or the G just below middle C? I don't think I've been able to hit the G above middle C since I was twelve years old.

I can hit the note in falsetto, but this raises a question I have had for a long time. I've noted that there seems to be some confusion about "head voice" and "falsetto." I've always thought they were two different things. My first voice teacher, Edna Bianchi (retired soprano, not famous, but sang at the Met for several seasons; shared a stage with singers like Jan Peerce, Licia Albanese), drew a solid distinction between the two. But I note that some people seem to refer to falsetto as "head voice." Books I have read and singers I have talked to tend to contradict each other a great deal over how many registers there are (two or three—"chest, middle, head") and exactly what constitutes which.

Mrs. Bianchi didn't talk much about registers, but she did stress "placement" and "head resonance."

Don Firth