Which Reminds Me

During girls' choir in high school Miss Marken coached us on the German pronunciation for Stille Nacht. We were to sing with a straight tone as we could, with no vibrato, in imitation of boys' choirs. Of course boys naturally have no vibrato at all in their singing, which is why some people really like to hear boys' choirs better, but their voices change so they don't last very long. Women's voices are always going to be there more or less the same until at least age 40 or 50. After that, well, women are put out to pasture and young ones take over. So whatever.