1.   He approved of young Bruce, both as a boy soprano and ambitious Junior reporter on the weekly paper.

2.   BOY soprano David Brennan was all set to give the performance of a lifetime -- when his voice broke.

3.   Bejun Mehta offers as epilogue his own fascinating account of his journey from broken-down boy soprano to worldbeating countertenor.

4.   Born and raised in Baltimore, Aler attended Roman Catholic schools, where he sang as a boy soprano.

5.   Boy sopranos work better.

6.   A child of Russian Jewish emigrants living in Los Angeles, he sang popular songs on the vaudeville circuit as a boy soprano.

7.   A former boy soprano from Tennessee, he grew up around the country following the postings of his father, a Secret Service agent.

8.   A cousin, Bejun Mehta, is a countertenor who as a boy soprano sang for Leonard Bernstein.

9.   But for a boy soprano, there is no dodging the biological imperative.

10.   Derek Lee Ragin, a countertenor, took the part of the boy soprano more than satisfactorily, yet the role lost some of its vulnerability.