Beautiful Music NOW Reginald Mobley is a countertenor. It's a male vocal range comparable to a female mezzo-soprano. And Reginald Mobley is one of THE top countertenors in the world! 06/6/2024 - 3:08 am | View Link
A Rare Type of Voice Gets a New Audience A revival of Handel’s “Giulio Cesare” this summer at Glyndebourne, an English opera festival, features three countertenors with three different sounds. 06/4/2024 - 2:36 am | View Link
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Joseph R. Sconzo OBITUARY A Magna Cum Laude graduate of Adelphi Suffolk College, Oakdale, Long Island, Joe authored “Castrati”, a symbolist novel and founded Amerital, a Long Island newspaper devoted to the interests of ... 05/31/2024 - 4:02 pm | View Link
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Castrati: A Unique Phenomenon in Music History In the realm of music history, there exists a fascinating phenomenon that continues to captivate the imagination of scholars and enthusiasts alike—the castrati. These extraordinary male singers, who underwent castration before reaching puberty, possessed a vocal range and power that were unparalleled. With their unique ability to blend the ... 06/6/2024 - 11:51 pm | View Website
Classical 101 | Castrati: The Incredible History Of The Men Who Sang ... Castrati were world's first real superstars. But the history behind the men who could sing like women has an interesting twist. Brian Chang explains. 06/6/2024 - 7:55 pm | View Website
Castrato A castrato (Italian; pl.: castrati) is a male singer who underwent castration before puberty in order to retain singing voice equivalent to that of a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto. The voice can also occur in one who, due to an endocrinological condition, never reaches sexual maturity. 06/6/2024 - 9:04 am | View Website
Castrati: The Boys Castrated For Their High Singing Voices Castrati: The Italian Boys Who Were Castrated In Order To Maintain Their High-Pitched Singing Voices. By Kendrick Foster | Edited By Jaclyn Anglis. Published May 23, 2023. Updated May 26, 2023. Starting in the 16th century, castrati were used by choirs as a substitution for women. 06/6/2024 - 7:09 am | View Website
Metropolitan Opera | Castrati Successful castrati were the rock stars of their day, and they delighted noble and public audiences alike. The castrato commonly known as Farinelli (born Carlo Broschi, 1705–82) was knighted by the King of Spain and even had a ministerial role at the Spanish court. 06/6/2024 - 5:36 am | View Website
“President Joe Biden is set to visit the American cemetery outside Paris honoring World War I dead on Sunday, setting up a contrast with former President Donald Trump, who skipped a visit to the cemetery during a 2018 trip,” CNN reports.
“Biden will cap off a five-day trip to France paying his respects with a wreath-laying at the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial before returning to Washington.
“Donald Trump’s behavior should disqualify him for the presidency, Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to tell a state Democratic Party dinner in Detroit on Saturday night, in one of her first campaign appearances since the former president’s historic criminal conviction,” Politico reports.
“Israel’s military launched one of the bloodiest raids of the war Saturday, killing more than 200 Palestinians in a brazen operation to rescue four hostages from the central Gaza Strip,” the Washington Post reports.
“Israeli forces recovered the hostages alive from two buildings in Nuseirat, an impoverished refugee camp. But the fiery assault, in the middle of the day, left unimaginable devastation in its wake.”
“Residential blocks were destroyed, tanks menaced the streets and grievously wounded Palestinians, some without limbs, writhed in pain on the dusty roads of the camp’s central market, according to videos and images of the raid.”
I was part of John Taylor's solo band for many years and recorded this EP back in 1998.
Yours truly played tenor sax and flute.
I wanted you to know that John Taylor is wonderful human being and is not enamored by his being a rock star, nor by the fact that Duran Duran was inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame.
He's just one of the guys.