Life after Cambridge can be something of a let-down, too. It took me years to recover.
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On that - and many a similar - matter, I always thought that Julian Slade got it absolutely right in Salad Days: "Oh no, it's not that we want to stay; it's just that we don't want to go." The tug in two directions is just as distressing as a hopeless yen for the status quo.Originally posted by Vile Consort View PostComment
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The problem as it affected choristers in the sixteenth century has been briefly touched on in today's Early Music Show.
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Interesting about the Loughs, GTB, and above all the sound of a treble from that era. A kind of light, gentille trilling, lots of vibrato, and from a 15 yr old. But voices changed a lot later than now by and large.Comment
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Indeed and I benefited from the other side of that coin. My voice broke at 12, and I had the benefit of singing bass in the Senior Choir at school from 2nd year (year 8 in new money) through to sixth form. This has given me a love of harmony singing, and never having a deep bass voice, in recent years finding the comfort zone of baritone in male choirs.Originally posted by DracoM View PostComment
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Draco,Originally posted by DracoM View Post
Reminds me of that story about an organist of that era who was a bit of a martinet being asked by a nervous head chorister if he would let him have the next weekend off.
The organist demanded: " Why? you had better have a bloody good reason " to which the boy replied " Well Sir, I am getting married on Saturday! "
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To my mind boys should choose their way themselves if they want to continue singing they should do it...and if they have problem with the voice..so just be patientComment
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