Taunting Tenors
Y set wouldn’t reach the session from 2YH called "Tenors and the Girls They Sing About," but I listen to enough songs to be able to imagine it. When I read The Listener's facetious foreword paragraph about it, I wondered why somebody doesn’t compile a session called "Tenors and the Offensive Things That Are Said About Them." Will nothing rouse these gentlemen to stand up for themselves, or are the composers right in assuming them to be so preoccu- |
pied always with affairs of the heart that they are impervious to insult? But there ‘is one composer who recently went too far, (Or didn’t he? Nobody seems to have taken action against him.) This is Sir Edward Bairstow, who published a choral ballad "The Prodigal Son." When asked why he had given the title role to a bass instead of to a tenor he replied, "Who ever heard of a tenor leaving home?"
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 299, 16 March 1945, Page 9
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155Taunting Tenors New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 299, 16 March 1945, Page 9
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