Brian opened the stereo listening session with "Che gelida manina" from Puccini's La Boheme. The listeners forgot to do any comparisons - as Alan Silverman put it in a subsequent email: "After Brian was done you could hear a pin drop in the control room for quite a long time. Given the verbal proclivities and musical experience of those present, that's really sayin' somethin' as Tina Turner put it."

Brian ( http://www.briancheneytenor.com ) makes his Carnegie Hall debut in the New Year - a singer to watch out for.