In this episode Andy tells us about the lives of the musicians in the period and basically, it was a pretty miserable lot. Most miserable, to my mind, were the castrati: young boys castrated before puberty so as to keep their high voices!
In this episode Andy tells us about the lives of the musicians in the period and basically, it was a pretty miserable lot. Most miserable, to my mind, were the castrati: young boys castrated before puberty so as to keep their high voices!