The Singer’s Life: Goals and Roles

Birch Grove Publishing, 2005
This text explores a wider variety of roles played by singers, including roles as vocal musicians and as human beings, with ten chapters devoted to each of these two life areas. A few schools have adopted this book for their undergraduate voice majors, with the objective of providing them helpful information concerning the major challenges, goals, and opportunities that every singer faces in building a rewarding vocal music career.

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What Readers Say About The Singer's Life

The Singer’s Life is a thought-provoking treatise on the subject [of the whole singer], and is recommended reading for both singers and teachers.
--- Debra Greschner (“Bookshelf” review, NATS Journal of Singing, Jan/Feb 2006)

I truly marvel at Dr. Ware's succinct and clear writing of a very needed text that I will be requiring all my voice students to purchase.
--- Sophie Ginn-Paster (Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory, Ohio)

I found this book to be both informative and invigorating for me as one who has assumed many of these roles throughout my performing and teaching career. This will be a text that I will strongly recommend to my students as they begin their study.
--- Cheryl Coker (Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi)

The Singer's Life serves as a detailed blueprint of what it means to be a vocal musician. It ought to be required reading for all young persons interested in voice study, their parents and their teachers, and for anyone else wondering what it means to be a singer.
--- Thomas Potter (University of Central Florida, Orlando)

Reading Clifton Ware's book is like having a chat with some of the singing greats of our era.  There are so many wonderful tips and much good advice for singers of all ages.
--- Janet Ahern (University of Minnesota, Morris)