I unfortunately didn't have it (would have written myself perhaps but don't know what to say). It's just that I find you're good with words and it's good that...
... Where do you live, if I may ask? If you were to move here to Washington, DC, I don't believe you'd have any problem keeping your plate full with church and...
Greetings Karen and John W, To answer your question Karen, I am located in California. Now that I am busy with studies in medicine, I won't be able to sing...
Greetings Karen and John W, To answer your question Karen, I am located in California. Now that I am busy with studies in medicine, I won't be able to sing...
Hi Jim and all, That's really, really discriminating for men. How could they be so old fashioned? Sounds the same as "you are black, so you're not welcome'. As...
THAT'S the spirit John! Let's all write a letter! greetings and a lot of love from xavorcrocus JohnWW <JohnWW@...> wrote: Well said! As a castrato and...
To all castrati groups: I have just uploaded to http://www.rapidshare.de the following new book file: "The Mechanism Of The Human Voice", by Emil Behnke...
thank you for sharing this fascinating book, john, especially as real life paper and card copies are fragile and can be costly {:__o {:__[] {:__[@] ... book ...
... First, I have to disagree with Andreas on this one. A boy alto is a treble, not a countertenor, no matter how late puberty occurs. The speculation on later...
I think the problem here is with terminology. "Alto" technically means "high" and is what they have in English choirs- Boys (trebles), Altos, Tenors and ...
That was rather a sweeping generalisation, Jim. Why would all Castrati be soprano or mezzo? It's like saying all blondes are dizzy! Kylee ... From: "JohnWW"...
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I have been onto the web-sites of some Anglican (Episcopalian) cathedrals in the U.K. recently, with particular reference to their choral arrangements; and the...
Sheesh. Haha. I'm not trying to stereotype for goodness sake, and I'm a little suprized that some have been so sensitive to my mistaken idea that young boys...
Oh yes. I would NEVER want to be a so-called "normal" man. And I am sure the same applies to the now two teenage castrati, and one young would-be teenage...
Yup. One only has to look at King's College Choir, for example. to see that there are basses, tenors, adult male altos (not castrati) and one or two treble ...
To expand on this statement: The term "layclerk", applied to adult male altos, tenors and basses in cathedral choirs (the soprano part would be provided by...
I think the common usage of "contralto" refers to a female with a lower passagio, tessitura, and range than a female mezzo-soprano. This in contrast with a...
I have only heard of boy altos. I remember reading from a book that although it is generally agreed that most boys are sopranos before puberty, some ...
In my experience, even though I have the upper range very nicely, I get cast as a 2nd soprano in choirs because I have more powerful voice than those who ...
That would probably be in a S.S.A.A. choir, consisting all of boys, girls, women, or castrati, with two lots each of sopranos and contraltos, rather than a...
Hello, I think we are actually talking about two different traditions. In Britain, adult counter-tenors (today, at least, of the predominantly falsettist...
Actually, I was thinking of the S.A.T.B (women and men) from my church choir (Anglican) when I wrote that. It depends on the piece whether or not I sing first...
My memory from being in the Columbus Boychoir is that there are some boys whose unbroken voices approximate the range of a contralto. Our repertoire was...
Hi all you lovely people! The internet server in my town isn`t working properly and I can`t download files bigger than 500KB. I`ll have to wait probably a week...
I have just received from the U.S.A. a copy of the non-copyright Dover reprint of "Caruso & Terazzini On The Art Of Singing", by Enrico Caruso & Luisa...
Hi, I'm looking for transcripts or webpages featuring interviews with Russell Oberlin. There used to be a couple of webpages with them, but they seem to be...
I used to have a copy. It was reprinted by Dover in a volume that also contains a work by Caruso. This is still in print, and costs only US$7 new on...
http://www.tp4.rub.de/~ak/disc/ro/ro_bio.html There's that page. But the link with an interview at http://www.skywriting.com/Lyrichord/early/oberlin_int.html ...
