How To Use Contralto In A Sentence
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The results was that he was unable to see anything on the platform, except just nine sopranos and nine contraltos at each corner.
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Brahms wrote three piano rhapsodies as well as the Alto Rhapsody for contralto, male chorus, and orchestra.
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Julia Fordham sings in a smoky contralto that can also sweep upward to grab those higher tones when needed.
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And that doesn't mean that anything other than time and perseverance will turn your top lyric soprano into a belting contralto, but it is possible.
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It exists on a continuum with her other work in its carefully constructed ruminations on love bathed in her soaring contralto.
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Their legacy is a series of low coloratura contralto roles which serve to add variety and depth to the operas.
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Comic roles are skilfully handled by Massenet and come across well: Polish contralto Ewa Podles mustered grim regal splendour as the stepmother, with Madeleine Pierard and Kai Rüütel – both Jette Parker Young Artists – lively as the indistinguishably stupid sisters.
Cendrillon; Rinaldo – review
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The choir and orchestra will be joined by four young soloists - soprano Rebecca Outram, contralto Alexandra Gibson, tenor David Brown and bass James Gower.
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I was about to play by myself, knowing that I alone could hear the contralto's aria and the accompaniment in my head.
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His writing for contralto or mezzo-soprano, to a text by Theocritus, is surely a masterpiece.
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Marietta Simpson's full, rich contralto never degenerates into wobble.
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Her warm contralto conjured memories of adventures long past…
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‘All right, contraltos,’ the director encouraged, ‘sing strong, okay?’
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Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise rose up from the congregation, filling the church with strong English baritones and contraltos.
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Her rich contralto, with both range and depth, is unwavering throughout this sometimes rawboned story.
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My voice was of a contralto, albeit noticeably indignant in its own frustration.
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In the latter song, it is amazing what the contralto does with just five notes, and how moving those five notes can be!
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A gifted young contralto.
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At that time, she refused the role because it was written for a soprano and she was a contralto.
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We know that by the height of G.F. Handel's career, mezzo-sopranos and contraltos were finally recognized on the public stage, and music from that time on seems to fill the gap in tessitura (the general range within which the notes of a piece lie).
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There was one grand amateur musical evening, at the end of which Edwin imparted to his sisters that he thought Harcourt was smitten with Rose, and that, as he was a good sort of fellow, and had never had any particular father and mother, he could marry to please himself, and a good contralto voice might catch him any day.
The Semi-Detached House
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The admirable Bernarda Fink is the soloist in the Nietzsche setting, though some may prefer more of a contralto sound than Fink's lightish mezzo; and for all the transparent beauty of the Concertgebouw's strings, the finale's hymn is never transcendent as it can be.
Mahler: Symphony No 3 – review
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Backward like the fat, plastic robot who came out first and told us take-my-wife jokes, or the one that followed, a beefy-looking humaniform who sang to us in a fine contralto blur.
New Race
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Daniels is a phenomenon: he's a man who sounds like a female contralto - a very strong female contralto!
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Veloso was so impressed by her rich, almost operatic contralto that he became her mentor and musical director, initiating the recording of her first album and its follow-up in 2000.
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Handel was resolute in his recasting of an opera to suit the current performers, even moving heroines between sopranos and contraltos depending on the available cast and constantly adding new novelties to please the crowd.
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The score calls for a contralto.
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As a bonus, this CD includes the five solos and duets for soprano and/or contralto as sung by Schwarzkopf and Ferrier on June 15, 1950.
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Anna, the contralto's step-daughter, was an impressive accompanist who played fluently with great stylistic command.
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Marietta Simpson's full, rich contralto never degenerates into wobble.
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She stood with four other sopranos, six contraltos, six tenors, and five basses.
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The admirable Bernarda Fink is the soloist in the Nietzsche setting, though some may prefer more of a contralto sound than Fink's lightish mezzo; and for all the transparent beauty of the Concertgebouw's strings, the finale's hymn is never transcendent as it can be.
Mahler: Symphony No 3 – review
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These accounts of Bach's two cantatas for solo contralto will probably upset the period-instrument purists - Craig Smith's conducting of a modern chamber orchestra owes little to recent notions of baroque practice.
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From there came another sweet voice, contralto in contrast with Margot's high clear
CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
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In the case of contraltos and bassos, the voice is usually trained from the middle in both directions.
The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern
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She was talking to a friend in her lovely, ever lovely contralto.
BARN BLIND
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She enjoyed singing lessons, sang as a contralto in St Mary's Anglican Church choir and took part in many local concerts.
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The poignant sound of the contralto's voice pulled at the heart strings of her listeners as she held them under her spell.
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This was also the last time I sang soprano, because I was becoming a contralto.
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By adding the Magdalen as a contralto, Elgar acquired an important additional female role.
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Do you call that a cycloidal curve?" asked Madame, with a contralto laugh that shook the library.
The Prophet of Berkeley Square
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Again, the chorus bears the brunt of the text, but there are soprano, contralto, and bass soloists.
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Pieta's voice was of a contralto color, and though not very strong, it was maidenly and soft.
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The famous contralto was a pioneering African-American interpreter of opera and concert singing, and fought discrimination that sometimes barred her from performing.
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Funny that, because I don't think any of my favourite female singers are contraltos, and I think counter-tenor is my least favourite.
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One of Britain's best-loved singers, the contralto Kathleen Ferrier, died of cancer at 41.
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She stood with four other sopranos, six contraltos, six tenors, and five basses.
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Her father was a prominent surgeon, her stepmother, Paula Lindberg, a famous contralto.
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Brought up within earshot of his aunt, the famed contralto Louise Homer, he wrote naturally for the female voice.
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His aunt and uncle, the contralto Louise Homer and the composer Sidney Homer, who was Barber's mentor for more than 25 years, encouraged his studies.
