From the fourth chapter of the Book of Amber (the elder):
Once upon a time there was a recital hour that turned into a master class.
Alas, our Luke was about to be skewered at the altar of our musical experience once again.
There he stood by the piano; his voice ringing out smooth, light, bright and effortless.
Then, from nowhere this strange man appeared. What was his name?...Tom, something or other?
The mysterious stranger made a point of complimenting dear Luke and told us all as well that we should do so as well for our students should we become music educators. But all was not well in the kingdom of Kwoir-Oom. For the man explained the difficulty of how the tenor voice had a thing called passagio running right though the middle of it, and it seemed that our dear friend suffered from this affliction.
Strength was added when Luke was bidden to speak the text of his song, then sign it out with as much support and resonance. The stranger was also kind (and brilliant) enough to experiment with his own voice to see and feel for himself where the root Luke's vocal production lay.
In the end it was declared. "Luke, thou needest to sing this music of classical the same way thou singest Broadway.
... and there was much rejoicing.
I then fled to my Astronomy class for an exam before Miss Elizabeth had a chance to serenade us. Woe is me!
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