As a baritone who has sung several times (for pay, even) as a countertenor,
I agree that it is a legitimate voice type that deserves equal attention.
Personally, I LOVE to sing countertenor stuff. Oh well,
David Grogan
East Texas Baptist University
Marshall, Texas
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dgrogan@e...
Baruch's Observation: "If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a
nail."
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From: "Tako Oda" <toda@m...>
From: "Tako Oda" <toda@m...>
To: <vocalist-temporary@yahoogroups.com>
To: <vocalist-temporary@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 12:11 PM
Subject: [vocalist] Countertenor Taboo (was: silence of the lambs (errr...
list))
> Karen Mercedes <dalila@R...> wrote:
> Karen Mercedes <dalila@R...> wrote:
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> > In God's name, why not? Aren't countertenors vocalists too? Perhaps
it's
> > because we no longer have our resident countertenor, Jay Wilcox, to wave
> > the flag for his fach.
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> Thank you, Karen! I've read through the archives, and learned a great deal
> from Jay's posts. As a matter of fact, he was one of the reasons I joined!
> As the closest thing we had to an actively posting "working countertenor"
> I also tried to wave the flag on several fronts, and I think it started
> some pretty interesting threads.
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> Most of the feedback from other active posters was positive. The OFF-TOPIC
> police are often lurkers who's only contributions to the list are rants
> that they plan to filter any number of irrelevant words. Sadly, they
> usually include the word "countertenor" as one, implying that
countertenors
> were not singers. Or maybe they just wanted to filter me? :-O
>
> Tako Oda
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