All in due time, Smokey, all in due time. After all, we wouldn't want the project to be a complete wash-out, now would we?

What the Immortal Bard has to say on the subject of singing, from As You Like It, Act II, scene 3:

An he had been a dog that should have howled thus, they would have hanged him: and I pray God his bad voice bode no mischief. I had as lief have heard the night-raven, come what plague could have come after it.

And Act V, scene 3:

Shall we clap into't roundly, without hawking or spitting or saying we are hoarse, which are the only prologues to a bad voice?

Could anyone or anything be the very epitome of English culture other than William Shakespeare himself? He obviously had a great deal of insight and musical taste, not to mention quite a way with words.

Don Firth