At 10:14 AM 3/21/01 +0000, Tako Oda <toda@m...> wrote:
At 10:14 AM 3/21/01 +0000, Tako Oda <toda@m...> wrote:
>It also explains Moreschi's insistence on bringing his chest to A4
>(few women in classical music do this), even though his break sounded
>grotesque... perhaps it was much smoother when he was younger? Or
>maybe the break was just accepted in that era (like the awful
>scooping he does)?
I agree with others who have posted that this was partly
stylistic. Remember, too, that although this castration was performed on
boys with *promising* voices, there was no guarantee that they would all
develop into top-level singers. They were not all Farinelli's, even as not
every tenor performing today is at the same level as Bjoerling or
Pavarotti, for example.
Leslie
Leslie Jones, D.M.A.; Contralto
Dept. of Music, Southeast MO State Univ.
LJones@s... - (573) 651-2339
LJones@s... - (573) 651-2339
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