"Go West, Young Man"

        "Go West, young man!" And, so we did…and found the slogan, all said was almost all true. The pulsating drive beating in the hearts of this young America of ours was with us from its earliest beginnings and remains with us today. “Go West, young man”, was credited to an American editor and publisher, Horace Greeley. The year was 1865, around the end of the US Civil War.

        One of Mr. Greely’s favorite subjects was “Manifest Destiny”. A wildly held belief that Americans were destined to spread all across America. These were the God-fearing men and women in whom Greely had a heartfelt belief. In the 1990s our country was a bubble of growth and excitement. Once again his great design for gathering strength was upon us.

        Well, over forty-five years ago, a new believer came upon his own personal discoveries about acting and, specifically speaking, the newly burgeoning world of voiceover. Da Harv—that would be me—had begun his defined Kalmenson Method for the acting craft of voiceover. In the very beginning, it appropriately began in the evenings at his home studio (in his garage in Encino), on a street appropriately named “Wish Avenue”.

        What follows is less than a totally detailed version of what Cathy, the true misty mistress of what has become the integrity backbone of an unequaled drive for success, personified. Short and to the proverbial point, we two manage, under the true guidelines of what life is all about: togetherhood, all done and accomplished the hardest way possible! Voice casting and education was the road we took.

We picked a name for our company:

Kalmenson & Kalmenson, Inc.
“The Business of Voice Casting”
“The Study of Voice Acting”

So, think no more about life. Listen to what da harv has to say. The fact of the matter is: there is no easy path.

On your chosen path
You see
Without question
There will be
A little
Or far more
Pebbles and stones
Rocks falling down
Sad people and clowns
Forge forward
No time to gloat
Roads often remain cluttered
Ups and downs
Another fork, another town
Good people to speak with
They must be found
It’s never too late for goodness
Never stop trying
Your destiny will manifest
There was once a play
“Too Late For Dreams”
Was what this scribe wrote
He was a young man at the time
Today he proved himself wrong
IT’S NEVER EVER TOO LATE FOR DREAMS!

Harvey Kalmenson