51.   Rodriguez, with a tough, graceful voice, can sing most young singers into fainting spells.

52.   Rorem is pleased that young composers today are interested again in song-writing - and young singers like Graham are interested in singing them.

53.   Shaw fostered the solo careers of young singers, including Sylvia McNair, Marietta Simpson, John Aler and David Arnold.

54.   So much success achieved so early would have most young singers seeking elaborate, long-range career strategies.

55.   Some young singers staked claims on our attention, including Michael Connaire, Ted Green and Daniele le Blanc.

56.   Steven Mosteller, the conductor, was trying to be sensitive to the needs of his young singers.

57.   Still, what lesson could any aspiring young singers in the audience have taken from such slack preparation?

58.   Such young singers have absorbed the lessons of show-stoppers like Whitney Houston and Carey but turn their self-confidence toward competitiveness instead of noblesse oblige.

59.   Stoute was referring to Claudette Ortiz, a young singer from Willingboro, N.J., whose group, City High, was nominated for a Grammy Award this year.

60.   That is a legitimate concern, of course, particularly for a young singer who is being urged to take on heavy Wagnerian roles.