| This was also the last time I sang soprano, because I was becoming a contralto. |
| Brought up within earshot of his aunt, the famed contralto Louise Homer, he wrote naturally for the female voice. |
| It exists on a continuum with her other work in its carefully constructed ruminations on love bathed in her soaring contralto. |
| In the latter song, it is amazing what the contralto does with just five notes, and how moving those five notes can be! |
| At that time, she refused the role because it was written for a soprano and she was a contralto. |
| She enjoyed singing lessons, sang as a contralto in St Mary's Anglican Church choir and took part in many local concerts. |
