In a message dated 3/15/2001 12:08:11 AM Eastern Standard Time, bandb@n... writes:
<< Mike why should you presume I was referring to myself? The discussion I responded to was lamenting the fact that internationally the CT was saddled with a description which included the term FALSE in falsetto.
My objection on behalf of any casual opera goer was to the poaching of the name TENOR as a means of remedying that lamentation. >>
reg,
i think the casual opera goer is more likely to be fooled by the term 'dramatic tenor', thinking that would be a tenor who can act, than they would be by the term counter-tenor. these poor dupes you have so admirably championed these past few days, might be more likely to think the counter-tenor is an 'anti-tenor'. and, although this might be confusing dramatically, if the tenor's character and the ct's character are friends, it certainly shouldn't present too much of a problem as the naming of an instrument.
mike- just along for the ride!
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