contralto

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"From Jewish Folk Poetry", song cycle for soprano, contralto, tenor and small orchestra.
为女高音，女低音，男高音和小管弦乐队而作的“犹太人的民歌”。
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A woman’s smoky contralto crooned words I’d never heard sung, though they were printed on the tattered sheet music in my old accordion case.
一个女低音歌手幽幽地哼唱着我从未听人唱过的歌，虽然我曾在我的旧手风琴盒里的破烂乐谱上见过这些歌词。 “天空的夜幕落下，已是黄昏时分。
We could already hear the graphite core in Sade’s voice, a grainy contralto full of air that betrays a slight ache but no agony, and values even imperfect dignity over a show of pain.
我们已经能听出沙黛嗓音中石墨般的质地，她那亚光型的女中音充满着气息，透露出一丝隐痛，却并无苦楚，置哪怕是不完美的尊严于展览痛苦之上。

Ms. MARIAN ANDERSON (Contralto): (Singing) Come, Lord, Lord of morning.
NPR: Conductor James DePreist
Asians are to be seen on classical podiums across America, but, as the author notes in a profile of Marian Anderson, a contralto whom Arturo Toscanini called a once-in-a-century voice, blacks make up just 2% of orchestral players.
ECONOMIST: Essays by the New Yorker's music critic