This classic test first published in 1966 has withstood the test of time as a teaching aid for English-speaking singers, coaches, and accompanists, in order that their art may be more communicative to the public. This word-by-word translation allows the artist to properly interpret and express the feelings and emotions that the words require at the proper time.

Since the publication of the first edition in 1964, Phonetic Readings of Songs and Arias has served singers, teachers of singing, and students of lyric diction as a guide to the correct pronunciation of songs in foreign languages.

Korrigan's Shadow is a romance about a young fishing guide and the wild girl he pursues from the north woods of Wisconsin to the world of beat poets in San Francisco during the late l950's. It is a love affair felt both by the children and the solitary men who raised them while urging them, via poetry and philosophy, to honor the mysteries of the feminine, and thus to reclaim, through music and myth, the lost wilderness in their souls.