Happy Anniversary to The Diction Police! I started this podcast on April 1, 2010, so this week marks the first episode of our second year!

Episode 32 is the first of a two-part discussion with French vocal coach Francois Germain focusing mainly on liaisons, with some exceptional words in French and the pronunciation of future verbs.

Our text this week is En sourdine, a Paul Verlaine poem. The resources that we talk about on this episode are Thomas Grubb's Singing in French and Pierre Bernac's The Interpretation of French Song, and I also found an article by Thomas Grubb entitled "What does the vocal coach do?" (in three parts Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) that was posted on Operagasm in March which includes a biography for Thomas Grubb at the end. For the website in French on liaison, either follow the link at the right under resources, or click here.

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