Andrew Stiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >That said, however, the question of whether a countertenor may >legitimately sing a given alto line (let's leave the sopranos out of >it--I never heard of a countertenor who could hit a C above the treble >clef and live to tell about it) is entirely a matter of what would have >been considered appropriate at the time and place that the music was >created.
A friend of mine at college (Selwyn, Cambridge, England) had a reliable top C. He auditioned for a choral scholarship at King's College, but despite being amazed, Boris Ord turned him down, possibly because his sight reading was not quite good enough. Also the voice was not particularly appropriate for the job: the quality in the alto range was good, but not exceptional, and King's has boys for trebles.
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