Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site eosp1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!eosp1!mcmillan From: mcmillan@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Grammy awards (girl vs boy) Message-ID: <672@eosp1.UUCP> Date: Sat, 10-Mar-84 23:30:44 EST Article-I.D.: eosp1.672 Posted: Sat Mar 10 23:30:44 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Mar-84 07:04:27 EST References: <697@eisx.UUCP> Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton, NJ Lines: 14 For those of you who are both diligent and curious, it is possible to dig up a recording of a genuine Castrato singing a work with chorus and orchestra. Unfortunately, this artist was not terribly well trained, and the effect is of an amteur singer with a powerful but uncertain middle-aged female voice. We don't castrate boy sopranos any more, but Michael jackson may belong in their tradition, and I wonder if he will start a new trend. Each century seems to find more "humane" ways to carry out the horrors of the boorish, earlier centuries. - Toby Robison allegra!eosp1!robison decvax!ittvax!eosp1!robison princeton!eosp1!robison (NOTE! NOT McMillan; Robison.)