Thanks for the kind words, Malcolm.

Re John Denver: Don't tell the media, but I think he was an alto.

I've thought of a grand soprano. Margaret Nelson! Pure but not cold, accurate but not egoistical. Thank you, leeneia, for that suggestion.

Freightdawg: I'm with you when you ask do we want quality or today's big names. Now, the only place I hear pop music is in retail stores. (I suspect that even there the selections there are pretty old.) Anyhow, the vocals are uniformly awful. The women whine and the men growl, and in-between there are epicene voices whose main accomplishment is being irritating. I can't recommend any of them to budding singers.