Friday, April 3, 2009

A Rose by Any Other Name


Can Bass 1, a blogger from a cathedral choir in England, sure has a way with words. Having grown up in a cathedral men and boys' choir myself, I find his posts extremely amusing to read, and I always look forward to the next one.

A recent post speaks about the addition of girls to the cathedral choir (to replace the dwindling boy choir situation, a problem that plagues most cathedral choir school programs outside of the untouchable Kings' College, and the like).

here's a short excerpt from his post:

Anyone still following this erratic nonsense will recall that - last November - we admitted female choristers through our ancient portals for the first time. The boys choir continues to decline, both numerically and musically; the distaff side were forever burning their bras and banging on about equality of opportunity, and the choir school recently went co-ed. It was only a matter of time.

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But. But. If truth be told (and where else if not here?) these gels are rather good. They can actually sing. And they are an awful lot more fragrant than the farting boys. And is it, reader, a coincidence that their names are so... exotic? Here is but a small selection: Roxanna-Libby; Constanza; Emilina-Daisy; Clarissa; Grace-Olivia; Justinia and - my own personal favourite - Abigail-Louise, or Abi-Lou. What lovely, sophisticated monikas. What wonderfully evocative labels. No wonder Roger cannot keep his hands off them, with names like that to whisper ticklishly in adolescent ears.


Read the entire post here.

Picture Credit, Ely Cathedral Girls Choir (Note: Can Bass 1 is not associated with Ely Cathedral).

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