[Magdalen] Down and Up We Go.

[Georgia DuBose]

I am not a soprano any more. I should probably be singing alto, or
second soprano if our church had any music with a part for same.

Georgia+

On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 8:45 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford
<oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> I know of a number of women whose voices have lowered as they aged. I don't
> think it's any traumatic event, just what sometimes happens.
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
> for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
> on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente
>
> On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 11:15 PM, Charles Wohlers <
> charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> I note that Joan Baez' voice has dropped quite a bit over the years. I
>> don't believe she smokes.
>>
>> Chad Wohlers
>> Woodbury, VT USA
>> chadwohl at satucket.com
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Cantor03--- via Magdalen
>> Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2015 10:41 PM
>> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
>> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Down and Up We Go.
>>
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>>
>> I was watching some of yet another NCIS marathon (this one has been  on
>> USA Network all day).  I happened to catch in the opening credits the  name
>> "Marina Sirtis" who is the actress who played Counselor Diana Troi on
>> Star Trek TSG for so many years.  I realized that she was playing the  role
>> of the new head of the Israeli Security Mossad on the NCIS episode.
>>
>> She is perfect for the part, being of Greek/English ancestry, but her
>> voice
>> has dropped a full octave from that of her Star Trek role.  I don't  think
>> she
>> was faking this new low tibre.
>>
>> I struck me that most of us have vocal changes as we age, and often
>> that is up or down in timbre.  The downs I've found are often  cigarette
>> smokers.  Nearly all the profound basso speaking voices I  encountered
>> at the VAMC were heavy smokers from the teens on.  They were  amusingly
>> proud of their deep voices, not realizing this was from cigarettes and  the
>> attendant dangers of throat cancer.
>>
>> I wonder if Sirtis' vocal change is not due to the same problem?
>>
>> For many men, the natural vocal change is to raise up the timbre of  the
>> voice.  I can sense the same thing in my own vocal range.
>>
>> We can choose not to smoke, but we cannot stay alive and choose not
>> to get older!
>>
>>
>> David Strang.
>>