[Magdalen] Down and Up We Go.

[Judy Fleener]

I might happily reside in the tenor section of our choir.
Judy

On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Georgia DuBose <gdubose at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
>



-- 
Judy Fleener, ObJN
Western Michigan