Word: vocalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chorus. As with most Negro opera singers, Shirley's vocal talents were developed in the choir loft, initially in St. John's African Methodist Episcopal Church in his native Indianapolis, and later in Detroit, where at 13 he sold papers to pay for his first private lessons. Son of an insurance agent, Shirley graduated from Wayne State University in 1955 with a degree in music education, taught at a Detroit high school for a year before being drafted into the Army. After singing with the Army chorus for three years, he moved to Manhattan, where his rise...
...proverb goes: "Stupid as a tenor, amorous as a baritone, drunk as a bass." Some doctors who specialize in treating singers' throats and nasal passages at least half-believe the theory. Says a well-known Manhattan doctor who probably caters to more of the city's vocal elite than anyone else: "I have always jokingly said that tenors are so dense because they are living with chronic brain concussion. They have all of those vibrations bouncing off the bones of their heads. It is definite that they do feel the vibrations, and sometimes when they sing high notes...
...VOICE PRINTS may solve the now virtually impossible task of catching obscene, threatening and anonymous phone callers. Variations in size and shape of vocal cavities give each human voice a unique sound, explains Bell Telephone Labs' Dr. Lawrence G. Kersta, who developed the technique. By means of a sound spectrograph, Kersta converts spoken words into picture patterns that he says identify the speaker as reliably as his fingerprints. The system works no matter how the voice is disguised. At this stage, voice prints require wiretapping, which may pose legal problems, but someday police may record every suspect...
...SYLVIA: EARLY MORNING RAIN (Vanguard). British Columbia-born Ian and Ontario-born Sylvia weave a spritely texture of vocal contrast and concert as they sing country and Western music with a Northwest twang. Less bent on social comment than on soothing harmony, they sing gaily of whisky, women and want, waxing serious only when they try to patch up the French-English rift back home in Song for Canada ("How come we can't talk to each other any more...
Having read his complete works, Miss McGinley nobly qualifies for honorary membership in our society, which we have proposed she accept. We thank TIME for introducing us to such a vocal Lyttonite. PETER NOON President...