contralto part

Only three of her voices were canned, she insisted on singing the alto/contralto part live.

In group harmonies, Jones usually sang the "contralto parts" or the lowest key in the harmony.

Her voice, in its best days, was a magnificent mezzo-soprano of a weight and range that made her consistently successful also in the darkest contralto parts.

She possessed a remarkably beautiful voice, an excellent singing technique, and wide vocal range which enabled her to perform several roles traditionally associated with mezzo-sopranos in addition to contralto parts.

Her D'Oyly Carte colleague, the veteran Darrell Fancourt, said of her, "one of the very few people who have sung the contralto parts ."

Miss Bean gave this contralto part an unusual richness and glow and seemed to satisfy this large Carnegie Hall audience as deeply as any other singer of the evening.

Ms. Scalchi, who has been active in Europe, also seemed uncomfortable; the contralto part was often too low to display her vocal virtues; her registers produced, at times, radically different vocal characters.

In the duet with Merelan, she modulated her tone to match the soprano so that it was technically well sung, though the contralto part did not match the soprano in the joy which the song had been written to express.

In 1963, she sang the contralto part in the first performance at the BBC Promenade Concerts of Mahler's Resurrection Symphony under the direction of Leopold Stokowski, then making his Proms debut appearances.

Hellmann frequently performed the contralto part in the recordings of Bach's cantatas, his Christmas Oratorio and his Easter Oratorio with the Heinrich-Schütz-Chor Heilbronn, the Pforzheim Chamber Orchestra and Fritz Werner.