"There has never been so much enthusiasm for the singing art, nor have there been so many students and teachers, as of late years.  And it is precisely this period which reveals the deterioration of this divine art and the almost complete disappearance of genuine singers and worse, of good singing teachers."

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- From the article "Preventing The Decadence Of The Art Of Singing" written by the great master Giovanni Baptiste Lamperti in 1893 -

 

I assert these thoughts are even more applicable today.  MR