i just got three things off nabster; moreschi singing 'ideale', jimmy
scott singing 'the crying game' and i think it is garth brooks in an alter
ego named chris gaines, for which he wears a black wig (i guess that must be
the closest an okie can safely get to cross-dressing) singing 'lost in you'.
it is the first time i can remember hearing moreschi (i must have
blocked out all the other times. at first, i thought it was florence foster
jenkins). to me, it sounds as if he used to be able to mix higher and just
couldn't anymore. (tako, he does sound as if he is getting that 'witchy'
falsetto that robert plant uses.) i think he sounds awful and was surprised
to hear thunderous applause at the end (did he come from a large family?).
jimmy scott has an endocrinological disorder (the name of which i have
forgotten) that has pretty much the same effect castration would on the voice
(minus the trauma). he uses his voice in a very different way than
moreschi, singing almost exclusively in chest and sounds a little as if he
were imitating billie holiday.
chris gaines (what is up with that?), uses a lot of falsetto but, his
use of it is very different than what classical counter-tenors do.
the only thing all this really tells me is that the differences in
singers probably has more to do with the differences in the usage rather than
the differences in the meat.
mike
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