High and mighty: counter-tenors. (music)

The Economist (US) | May 15, 1993 | Copyright

IT SEEMS only yesterday that falsetto singing was such an oddity that mention of it surfaced in a Marx Brothers film in order to give Chico Marx a chance to observe, "My aunt, she got-a falsetto teeth". But since the post-1945 rebound of the counter-tenor's art, led by Alfred Deller, a majestic British musician, the male alto has achieved an unprecedented level of musical acceptance. Unprecedented because counter-tenors today sing not only music historically meant for their voices but also branch out into new adventures of their own.

A case in point is Jochen Kowalski, a ...

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