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soprano.wetpaint.com 6/10/2006
Other sources of hilarity for choristers
- Choral jokes of the Oratorio Society of New York
Books
"Yes, I've switched from soprano to alto. I've also moved from St. Paul to Minneapolis. I can't think of any more fundamental changes short of a sex change operation.
"....I hadn't sung alto in twenty years. Could I still read music well enoughenough? Sopranos rely on their ears so much. There it is, the melody, high above everything, easy to hear, easy to grab hold of. But the alto, the harmony...."
In How Can We Keep from Singing: Music and the Passionate Life (2001, W.W. Norton), Joan Oliver Goldsmith wryly discloses what keeps singers going, and how "amateur" comes from the Latin for "lover," not "can't make a living at it." This book is a great present for your favorite chorister--you!
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