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Scott Morrison <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 3 Sep 1999 19:11:51 -0500 retained.
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A couple of months ago Rachel Lee came across his name as a recording
engineer for the Bruno Walter Edition on Sony.

And then Derek Lim replied, 'Wasn't he a boy soprano?'

I can give something of an update.

After a brilliant career as a boy soprano, he continued to study cello,
which he'd been studying all along.  He is from a very musical family;
his father is a pianist, Dady Mehta, who, I think, teaches at a university
in Michigan.  His mother is a singer.  At sixteen, after his soprano voice
had 'broken', he went to Yale to study cello under the legendary Aldo
Parisot.  He also studied singing, in his 'new' baritone voice, with the
also-legendary Phyllis Curtin.  But somewhere along the way he also started
his own audio engineering company.

And I'd heard that he began singing again as a counter-tenor, after hearing
about the same sort of voice category change for David Daniels, now one of
our leading counter-tenors.

I don't know, however, what he is doing as we speak.  I don't recall seeing
anything about a singing career these days.  Anyone know?

Scott Morrison

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