Tim BraithwaiteHenry Chorley on French Singing and ‘Portly, Middle-Aged Gentlemen’ Singing in Falsetto (1844) ‘A gallery of French tenor singers would not be the least edifying chamber in the Pantheon of Art. Few traces would be there found, it is...
Tim BraithwaiteA recollection of Giovanni Battista Rubini Singing so Forcefully that he Broke his Clavicle‘Rubini appeared, raised his eyes to heaven, extended his arms, planted himself firmly on his calves, inflated his breast, opened his...
Tim BraithwaiteCharles Butler Complaining about the ‘Stentorian Vociferations’ of Choir Singers (1636)‘First therefore let the whole choir endeavour to control their voices, so that the words may be clearly heard and understood by the...