[rollei_list] OT: Singing Guys!
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:30:08 -0500
At 12:10 AM 1/11/2010, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>Not a singing seaman but I am at present a choirboy. A bass.
>Though not in the religious sense but "classical" we're doing the Mozart
>Requiem in Brooklyn.
I was then a Soprano, but I did the Mozart
Requiem "in memory of Sir Winston Churchill upon
the occasion of his death" at Trinity Cathedral
in Pittsburgh back in '65. The Dean at that time
was a WWII Royal Parachute Regiment veteran who
wore his ribbons in the British and Canadian
style on his surplice. He dropped at Normandy
but always assuerd us that he "overslept and missed MARKET-GARDEN".
That was a bad year as my voice was
changing. Canon Hamer granted me mercy the
following summer by moving me into the Tenors,
where I remained until I moved to San Francisco,
where I was cast as a bass. I spent years as a
Soprano, years as a Tenor, and years as a
Bass. I spent about two weeks as an alto singing descant.
The Bassi are always the heavies in Opera. So, Mark, you and I are heavies!
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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