The Whiff and Poofters....................
So, straight guys can join now?
Mama sang bass and Papa sang tenor?
XX == Woman. Join the "Whim 'n' Rhythm" group.
XY == Man. Join the "Whifenpoofs" group.
If you can't figure that out, you have serious problems that you need to resolve first, before wasting your time on a singing group.
Why yes, of course. Couldn't forget them, now, could we?
Now they will allow bull dykes.
Tenors are overrepresented by male performers. Something must be done about this injustice.
Something else for me to not care about.
Unfortunately (for the politically correct) there are significant differences between men and women.
Particularly in the voice department.
As a "tiefer Alt" or true contralto who is often called upon to fill in for tenor, I am very familiar with this issue.
Without getting into the tall weeds on the issues of breath, resonance, falsetto, and vocal cords, women do not sound like men!. This is particularly true with the male alto/soprano sound that is the Whiffenpoofs' specialty.
Just for example, I want you to take a minute to listen to this very accomplished male alto singing a work that was written for that voice part - Orlando Gibbons' "This is the record of John".
Listen and you will hear that this is definitely a man, with male voice qualities, and a woman singing it would be completely different. I have in fact sung it - but I would never record it. Here's a local version with a contralto singing the solo part - over at Emory. Listen to the timbre, the breath - aside from the fact that they had to drop it 2 whole steps from the original key -
The women (especially women who have runaway soprano vibrato) are going to stick out like sore thumbs. Moreover, the director will have to change all the settings, harmonies and keys to accommodate the female voice.
R.I.P. Whiffenpoofs - you had a good run.
I thought that this would be about the Cayuga Waiters, but it turns out that they were hoisted on their own petard earlier this year for doing the sorts of things that really intelligent 20 year old guys do. http://cornellsun.com/2017/04/26/cayugas-waiters-permanently-dismissed-from-campus/
We will all be the same damn it!
There is NOTHING liberals cannot destroy.
So, we will no longer be able to enjoy the deep resonance and gorgeous voices of an all men’s choir anymore?? It’s official......the Libs are He** Bent on taking all the fun out of life! (I LOVE the richness of ANY SONG, when sung by all man :* (
By coincidence, I’ve heard to the Whiffenpoofs often. They have wonderful voices and are a pleasure to listen to. I don’t know if they are gay or not—maybe some of them are—but they are wonderful performers.
When will Hollywood and the Olympics end their more than century-old tradition of male-female only competition?
After all Women are just as good as men
Right ?
Right ?
It's not clear to me just what is being done here. Is the (invented and nonsensical) problem that biological men, currently identifying with and impersonating women, have been prohibited from Whiffenpoofing? (And vice versa for the women impersonating men?) That's hard to imagine. But ... were they expected to wear tuxes, apparently the group's usual uniform, and thus look masculine? If all that's at stake is letting the female impersonators wear a dress on stage, I don't suppose it will make any musical difference. And again, vice versa for the girls' group.