The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #117132   Message #2522062
Posted By: Newport Boy
22-Dec-08 - 05:48 AM
Thread Name: Where can bad singers go?
Subject: RE: Where can bad singers go?
[Sorry - hit the wrong key]

WLD - WS Gilbert got it right again - the Mikado's song 'To let the punishment fit the crime'.

The amateur tenor, whose vocal villanies
All desire to shirk,
Shall, during off hours,
Exhibit his powers
At Madame Tussauds Waxwork.

and

The music-hall singer attends a series
Of masses and fugues and "ops"
By Bach, interwoven
With Spohr and Beethoven,
At classical Monday Pops.

Phil