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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
You may think that countertenors sound weird
That's what was also freaky about that music history class, Jesse-- one of the guys in there was a countertenor, so he sang for us and we were able to do a compare and contrast.
Funny thing about him, too, is that physically he was built very much how they describe castrati as being built—tall and very long-limbed and lanky.
Aw, bye, Kat P!!
Kat P, best to you on your journey!! Will miss you.
Darn it! NY is losing too many Buffistas.
Kat P., Bon Voyage! Where in SoCal will you be?
Is LJ down for everyone?
I was just trying to load it Perkins. Looks like it's down.
Big smooch to Jesse, msbelle and Tom Scola! I will miss y'all oodles and oodles.
Perkins, I'm moving to LA which is just so strange. Haven't lived there in ages.
And this is my first post in Natter in ages. Also strange.
And now I'm off to Brooklyn.
Well crap. They don't pipe the service into this room anymore. Now the dilema: stay and knit or go downstairs where I can here the service but no knitting. Wah!
In a music history class, we heard a really old recording of the last surviving castrato from the twenties and it was eeeeeeeerie.
Every year I remind myself that I need to get a copy of this for my Intro to Drama class. I teach them about the castrati when covering Italian theatre. They frequently look at me like I've made it up.
I usually mention Anne Rice's Cry To Heaven in the lecture. This is the first year I've had a class where no one knew who she was. Even mentioning Interview with a Vampire didn't get a response.
Insent, Kat P.