The official birthday year of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) is celebrated as 1944. The author discusses research about the beginnings of NATS some forty years earlier, as well as possible reasons for the hiatus between the early 1900s and NATS’ official birthday, including the heated debate about compulsory examinations that divided members at that time, led by two prominent pedagogues on opposite sides of the divide, Englishman Herman Klein and American Herbert Wilber Greene. Additionally, two new positions are announced: co-editor of the “Mindful Voice” column and the JOS internship.
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