记得钱钟书的《围城》里哲学家褚慎明曾道:鸟里会唱的都是雄的。本来我深以为然,比如,我从前几乎不听女音乐人的作品,在马勒之前几乎没有女作曲家,我知道的最优秀的演奏家鲜有女性,而且甚至连历史上最顶尖的女高音Farinelli也是个阉人(亨德尔的《弥赛亚》中的女高音就是由阉人 Recalls that Chu Shen-ming, a philosopher in Fortress Besieged in Qian’s book, once said that all birds will sing are male. Originally, I was convinced, for example, that I had barely listened to the work of a female artist before Mahler had hardly any female composer, and that the best performer I knew was rare in women and that even the best female in history The tweeter Farinelli is also an eunuch (the sopranos in Handel’s Messiah are eunuchs