Dear King Brilliant:

I just have to put my two cents in here. Voice designations can be annoying. I'm somewhere between a low tenor and a high baritone but does it really matter? When I was attending college I wanted to sing in the chorus but it was really frustrating because the chorus director insisted that I was a tenor and should work on my high notes because that was where I belonged.

My theory is that you should sing where it's comfortable not where others insist you should be singing. That's why I prefer folk music to classical music (speaking in a vocal sense). I performed in a local Bay Area band that did a lot of acapella singing in which we often ignored the "rules" and were successful nonetheless.

I realize that I'm ranting somewhat here but voices sometimes fall in between the conventional designations of bass, alto, tenor and soprano.

Regards,
radriano