BOYS AND GIRLS COME OUT TO SING.

In addition, a choir's sound is molded by its director: cathedral treble lines whose equivalent-age girls and boys are trained by the same person are often indistinguishable. It is well known that in blind tests, even professional choir trainers can rarely differentiate between individual unchanged boys' and girls' treble voices.7 Conversely, if a 9-year-old treble and a 17-yearold soprano sound the same, then something is wrong. In addition, the lauded though relatively recent flowering of the UK's professional choirs over the past few decades is surely due in part to the availability of more chorally experienced women.16 One indisputable fact is that fewer children at Rochester will benefit from a chorister education. [Extracted from the article]