Huh?
It looks like the Texas Music Educators Association is worried about promoting homosexuality within public school choirs. According to the Los Angeles Times, boys will no longer be able to try out for soprano or alto parts and girls will no longer be able to sing tenor or bass, no matter what their natural range might be. The stated excuse is preventing damage to the kids’ voices. Yeah, right. Because so many tenors and basses are clamoring to sing the “girl” parts? Well, clearly, boys with high-pitched voices and girls with low-pitched ones are much more likely to be seduced into the “homasexshul lifestyle”. Makes me think these music educators must have received their degrees from Liberty University.
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July 18th, 2005 at 5:53 pm
This is cracking me up. All I can think of is all the cigarette-smoking post-menopausal ladies I know who sing tenor in their church choirs (where, I might add, good tenors are always in short supply). And a young black guy who studied with the same voice teacher I did, years ago in Virginia. He was a tenor until tne day Phyllis discovered he had a fabulous counter-tenor range. She was over the moon with delight, gave him all this new repertoire (”Do you know what a gift this is? Your career is MADE!”) but he hated it. I can still see him rather sullenly singing (in a beautiful pure tone) some early music aria or other at the studio recital.
Seriously, I don’t think I’d want my kid educated by any music “educator” who agreed to this asinine plan. Oh well. Now Mikhael has had national exposure, which surely will compensate for not having a chance to win All-State Choir.