Back to NicoleC. If you join a new choir after you move, join the alto section. I have been in the alto section of a very good choir since 1991, and I have learned that nobody cares if you sing those high C's and D's. Those notes are part of the soprano job description, so let them do it. If they are singing even higher than D, let them show off.

When you get to a D as an alto, merely emit a thin squeak or just open your mouth and let nothing come out. With the sopranos, tenors and basses going great guns around you, it doesn't matter.

I haven't heard a woman yet who sings tenor and sounds right. Most of them are forcing their voices into their chests and probably doing damage. Our choir director says that even if a woman's voice is that low, the tone just isn't what the composer expected in a tenor.

Not to mention the temperament problems you can encounter there...