September 19, 2009 at 5:00 am | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment
What are YOUR responsibilities?, your goals?, your reasons for choosing to sing? Be ready to “dive in” and try new ideas. TK Master Class from October 1, 2018
What is your responsibility in a voice lesson? (The car is there just to get your attention – I owned it for over 47 years!)
The following directives are FOR YOU. Read each one. Let them soak in.
Which ones SPEAK TO YOU AT THIS MOMENT?
Come to your lesson with a specific agenda. Don’t be afraid of trying something new in the way of making sound. No one expects you to be perfect the first time out.
Never give your power away. Experience is almost always the best teacher.
Trust your own instincts. You are in charge of your own life. If you don’t run your own life, someone or something else will. You are unique. There will never be another talent or voice like yours to be heard or experienced by others, so with the help of your teacher, decide how to connect to your voice. Share it in performance.
Discover who you are at your very core. Express that to the world through your voice.
Risk being who you are and ask for what you want. Believe you can have it and then be ready to receive it.
It works!
November 6, 2019 at 11:14 am | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment
There have been over 27,000 visits to my web site.
My various roles over the years I most CERTAINLY have had fun
Anguished Witch, Hansel & Gretel, Roxy 2009
Witch Atlanta 1978
KISMET, summer stock St. Louis, 1969
King Kaspar Atlanta 1978
Old Deuteronomy CATS Roxy 2009
The Conferencier in CABARET – Germany 1984
1969 Handsome Prince in Snow White, Muny
Wenzel – Bartered Bride – Atlanta 1985
Fridolin – Rose von Stambul – Germany 1983
Eisenstein – Fledermaus – Atlanta 1979
Tannhäuser – Tannhäuser Spoof – Germany 1985
Tannhäuser
Magic Flute Santa Fe 1968 Slave
Conferencier in Cabaret 1984 Germany
w/ Gateway Chamber Orchestra 2012
Witch Hansel and Gretel, Roxy 1998
Longfellow 2013
Polenblut Operetta Germany 1984
Old Arithmetic Man 2014 Ravel “L’enfant et les sortilèges”
Lion 2019 “Mooch the Magnificent” by Lauren Bernofsky
July 20, 2018 at 2:20 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment
“Random acts of kindness,” “Move, soar, sail,” “Just do it,” “No one can make you feel inferior without consent,” “How you do anything is how you do everything” “and “Positive attitude, charge ahead, enjoy yourself.”
Remember these sayings! especially “How you do anything is how you do everything!”
These were among the thoughts Thomas King, assistant professor of music at DePauw University in Greencastle, shared while talking about vocal technique with three different choirs.
King’s hope is that the students apply those thoughts to music and life.
“It’s so that they realize that each one of them is an individual and needs to start at this point and go somewhere with it,” he said. “And if it’s not in music, that’s OK, too. It’s just in life.”
King has an extensive background in music education and performing. He has given voice lessons since 1970, and he taught high school choirs for 11 years. He’s now in his 28th year of teaching at the collegiate level. Also on his résumé are several operas and musicals.
Read the full story in Wednesday’s Tribune and online at tribtown.com.
January 2, 2017 at 5:00 am | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment
2019
***November coming soon!! Prince Escalus in “Star-Cross’d Lovers” by Don Freund. (a version of Romeo and Juliet)
*September SAI Matinée Musicale Recital at Trinity Episcopal Church, Bloomington, IN
**2019-2020 ONGOING Singing “Lion,” in Mooch the Magnificent by Lauren Bernofsky for “Reimagining Opera for Kids” (5 performances so far)
*March *Judged AllTech Competition (12th year in a row), University of Kentucky, March 10, 2019, Lexington, KY
*Sang Solo for Trinity Episcopal Church Pops concert, February, 2019, Bloomington, IN
*Sang 11 performances with “Reimagining Opera for Kids,” in “The Lunchbox Project” as Malcolm, the PB&J loving fourth grader! September 2018- April 2019
2018
*Sang Tenor Solos in Mozart Vespers, Volunteer State Community College, Nashville, TN, April 22, 2018
*Gave Master Class, Oakwood University, March 26, 2018, Huntsville, AL,
*Sang solos in Handel-Messiah, Easter portion Bloomington Chamber Singers, March 18, 2018, Bloomington, IN
*Judged AllTech Competition (11th year in a row), University of Kentucky, March 11, 2018, Lexington, KY
*Sang Solo for Trinity Episcopal Church Pops concert, February 12, 2018, Bloomington, IN
2017
*Trip to Berlin, Germany to strengthen German skills for “German Diction” class at DePauw, Decem. 26, 2017 – Jan. 5, 2018
*Solo Haus Konzert, featured six historical keyboard instruments accompanying me, Bloomington, IN, December 22, 2017
*Sang solo in Handel-Messiah, Christmas portion Bloomington Chamber Singers, December 17, 2017, Bloomington, IN
*Led Christmas Carol Sing, Friday Musicale, Belle Trace Retirement Home, Bloomington, IN, December 7, 2017
*Tenor section leader, Bloomington Chamber Singers, Feast on Bach, Bloomington, IN, December 3, 2017
*Took part in several Christmas Carol “Sings,” at Indiana University, Meadowood Retirement Home, Oliver Winery, Bloom Magazine, November 14, December 8, 12, 19, 2017
*Thomas King and Vicki King performed Schubert Songs, Mascagni, Santiago, Grieg Ave Marias for Sigma Alpha Iota Musicale, September 24, 2017, Bloomington, IN
*Command Performance, on a bus tour in Alaska, August 8, 2017
*Promoted two year graduate of Vocal Arts at DePauw, Dexter Griffin, in his debut solo recital, Bloomington, IN, July 22, 2017
*Thomas and Vicki King performed The Call Ralph Vaughan Williams, Trinity Episcopal Church, Gatlinburg, TN, June 4, 2017
*Judge for AllTech competition (tenth year in a row), University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, March 5, 2017
*Sang Solo at Pops Concert, Trinity Episcopal Church, Bloomington, IN February 5, 2017
2016
TK and Vicki King performed guest faculty recital, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN, November 14, 2016
Led workshop for performance anxiety, excellence in performing, choral music tips, Seymour High School, Seymour, IN November 2016
TK — Performance Anxiety workshop, DePauw University July 21, 2016, Greencastle, IN *PARTICIPANTS- See “Stage Fright” heading on my web site. Go to it for review of the activities we did. Contact me as needed. I want YOU to be the best and most confident performer you can possibly be!
TK narrated DAISY CABARET, the life and times of Daisy Hinkle-Garton, Farmstead, Bloomington, IN, April 16-17, 2016 (see flyer)
TK judged Classical Singer High School division first round, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN, March 12, 2016
TK judged AllTech competition, University of Kentucky, Lexington, March 6, 2016
TK judged DePauw University Concerto Competition, Greencastle, February 25, 2016
TK and Vicki King performed an “overview of opera” concert, Meadowwood Retirement Village, Bloomington, February 12, 2016
TK and Vicki King performed at the Trinity Episcopal Church pops concert, Bloomington, February 7, 2016
TK and Vicki King performed Guest Faculty Recital, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN, February 1, 2016
TK sang solos, Delmar Gardens Retirement Home, Atlanta, GA, January 17, 2016
2015
TK sang solo in Messiah, Bloomington Chamber Singers, Bloomington, IN December 13, 2015
TK judged Indiana State NATS, DePauw University, October 2015
TK received 50 year Phi Mu Alpha pin, 2015, New Orleans, LA
TK and Vicki gave recital, July 12, 2015, Hickory, MS
TK gave Performance Anxiety workshop, DePauw University June 15, 2015, Greencastle, IN
TK judged NATS, GREAT LAKES Region, Anderson University, March 2015, Anderson, IN
TK judged AllTech Competition, University of Kentucky, March 2015, Lexington, KY
TK judged Concert Competition, DePauw University, February 2015, Greencastle, IN
Libby Larsen website, go to voice, go to I Cried unto God
January 1, 2017 at 1:46 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment
Attend our faculty recital MONDAY, November 14, 2016 at 7:30 p. m. at DePauw University, Thompson Recital Hall.
We will offer: Art songs by Purcell, Schubert, Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, Fauré and John Duke —Broadway show tunes by Kurt Weill and Frederick Loewe —Arias by Johann Strauss, Douglas Moore, Bedrich Smetana, George Gershwin
We promise a “fun” time will be had by all. I sang many funny roles on stage over my 45 year career and will offer some selections from those roles.
To those add the beautiful, lyrical melodies of Fauré, the stately songs of Purcell and the deeply moving songs of Franz Schubert, Clara and Robert Schumann.
DePauw is celebrating Kurt Weill this season with “Street Scene,” in February and I will add to that celebration with “September Song,” reminding myself of the long years I have lived.
January 28, 2016 at 12:01 am | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment
Vocal Lit II and French Diction for Singers are both available under DePauw.
January 18, 2016 at 6:16 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment
Drs. Vicki and Thomas King performed at DePauw University School of Music on February 1, 2016. Thomas has been teaching there since Fall of 2015 and will continue this spring and the entire school year of 2016-2017. The Kings have been performing together since they met in graduate school at Indiana University in 1968.
Among the repertoire for the recital are songs by Indiana composers, Ned Rorem and David Baker. Also included are three DePauw premiers, songs by Al Benner and a song by Libby Larsen, commissioned by Dr. Vicki King for her husband on the occasion of his 65th birthday.
December 17, 2015 at 7:00 am | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment
I was engaged to teach voice at the prestigious Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University-Bloomington, for the SPRING semester of 2015 and I continued for FALL 2015, SPR 2016, SPR 2017, SPR and FALL 2018. I was Visiting Professor of Voice, substituting for three different voice professors on sabbatical and on performance leaves. To be teaching at my own alma mater (from 1968-70) was thrilling indeed.
FALL of 2015 I taught Vocal Literature and German Diction for Singers at DePauw University School of Music and in SPR 2016, I taught Vocal Literature and French Diction. In FALL 2016 and SPR 2017, I taught the same courses AND a few private voice students as well. FALL of 2017 and SPR 2018 I taught German Diction, then French Diction, all at DePauw University.
Tenors Again starring Vicki King, Randall Black, Jeremy Easley & Thomas King
August 18, 2015 at 3:21 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment
<Libbylarsen.com> web site features Thomas and Vicki King, “I Cried unto God.”
See and hear us listed under VOICE choices. Vicki commissioned this song in 2010 for my 65th birthday.
October 8, 2014 at 4:27 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment
Dr. Thomas King, guest presenter <thomasroyking@gmail.com>
Vocal Technique Tips
[basic ideas]
KEEP THE STERNUM HIGH
EXPAND THE RIB ACCORDION
TOOTHPASTE TUBE
RESIST THE COLLAPSE
KEEP THE TONE SPINNING
RESONANCE SPACE – VOWEL SIZES
(CHURCH, NOT CHURCH BASEMENT – BELL OF THE HORN)
THE SINGING TONE
ELEGANCE
ENJOY – SEND A MESSAGE
[advanced, artistic, sophisticated ideas]
STRIVE FOR PERFECTION
NO ONE EVER ACHIEVES IT, BUT IT SURE IS FUN TO TRY.
“WORK” LONG NOTES, KEEP THEM ALIVE < >
NEVER BE SATISFIED
HAVE THE JOY OF MUSIC ON YOUR FACE AT ALL TIMES
SEND A MESSAGE IN EVERY SONG
SHOW YOUR LOVE OF MUSIC
THINK LIKE A SINGER — SING LIKE A THINKER
*INFUSE INTO YOUR ARIA ALL OF THE EMOTIONS OF YOUR CHARACTER FROM THE ENTIRE OPERA
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