Eve Was An Alto? Maybe Not.

If you've ever been in a choir you know about the plight of the Alto. We are as Karen Burke would say, the hamburger of the choir, the meat. But it isn't the ground beef that gets the glory. It is the well toasted bun or the fantastic sauce. We play second fiddle to the tiny, good looking Sopranos and their soaring melodies. We don't get scores of swoons for tender Tenor notes or oohs and awws for deep basement Bass notes. We just plug along with our leaps and sixteenth runs. We also get blamed if anything goes wrong.

It is always the Alto's fault. Or is it? For the longest time I had been making the half joke that Eve must have been an Alto as she receives so much blame for being deceived in the Garden. But after some serious recent thought I'm not so sure there is any truth to that.

Here are some of my arguments:

• Eve had a man, everyone knows that Altos don't get the boy
• She was deceived by the serpent, Altos are question askers, we don't listen that well, plus since we do everything wrong if Eve were an Alto she would have eaten the bark of the tree not the fruit
• She then got Adam to eat the fruit, Altos cannot seduce a man to anything let alone to defy his Creator
• Deception is not an Alto game, especially with men, we're just so happy that a boy is talking to us in the first place
• Eve was naked, Altos are not usually the type to be exhibitionists
• She was just wandering around in the Garden, Altos are doers, there is no chance that if Eve was an Alto that she was just sitting around waiting for things to happen

So where does this lead me? I would like to propose that Eve was not an Alto at all, but she was indeed a Soprano.

Dum, dum, dum!