Young Musician of the Year 2018

[Turangalîla]

I am very surprised that the extraordinary Stephanie Childress has now been in two strings semi-finals, and not won either of them. She’s already 18, so next time she will be too old. I doubt if it will affect her career.

Yes, they are all astonishing and making a choice is virtually impossible.

+1. I also thought her programming was excellent. Liked the guitarist too.

[BBMmk2]

+1. I also thought her programming was excellent. Liked the guitarist too.

Agreed. Stephanie Childress should've won. Is there such a thing as too professional for a young age?

[Jasmine Bassett]

It did occur to me that maybe there some misguided attempt not to show favouritism in the judging room as there was a specialist double-bass judge, a specialist violin judge and a specialist guitar judge - the only instrument not represented by an active professional player was the winning cello.

[DracoM]

So maybe a compromise candidate?
Just an idle thought?

[Bergonzi]

So maybe a compromise candidate?
Just an idle thought?

That's what I thought!

[Nick Armstrong]

Given the increasingly low profile of the event now

It had passed me by and am just catching up with the first now....

I'm inclined to give it a miss. Everyone of them is certain to be absolutely amazing and incredible.

... well a couple of minutes in and we got this from Alison Balsom (who's clearly been glugging the BBC Kool-Aid):

"All the signs are pointing towards it being something even more - if possible - extraordinary this year"

What a surprise.



Oh... and: chair of jury - "award-winning performer, composer and writer… Kerry Andrew"... Anyone heard of her?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Oh... and: chair of jury - "award-winning performer, composer and writer… Kerry Andrew"... Anyone heard of her?

Anyone who listens to Hear & Now every week; so - everyone here!

https://goo.gl/images/4b74QZ

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Oh.

There was supposed to be an image of Paddington's "hard stare!" at the end of that post.

What's happened to copying images from Google? It used to be easy-peasy!

Oh!! Now it's showing via the link - but not just the image, the entire page

[Nevilevelis]

Oh... and: chair of jury - "award-winning performer, composer and writer… Kerry Andrew"... Anyone heard of her?

I hadn't, perhaps unsurprisingly, although I do listen to Hear & Now when time permits. Having now sampled her work, I don't feel I've missed anything.

[Nick Armstrong]

Anyone who listens to Hear & Now every week; so - everyone here!

https://goo.gl/images/4b74QZ

Well, almost everyone.....

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PS:

[jean]

What's happened to copying images from Google? It used to be easy-peasy!

You now have to double right click on the image, and then select 'view image'. Only then will you get a URL to copy. I think.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

You now have to double right click on the image, and then select 'view image'. Only then will you get a URL to copy. I think.

Let's see:

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

You now have to double right click on the image, and then select 'view image'. Only then will you get a URL to copy. I think.

... oh yeh!

(A single click did it ... but many thanks, jean.)


Anyone any idea how to make images a bit smaller?

[french frank]

Anyone any idea how to make images a bit smaller?

There's nothing inside vBulletin itself. There used to be a plug-in but that doesn't seem to be available now. The only way is either to used imgur (the easiest) or download it to your computer and use any app you have there (like photoshop. GIMP), like this - which is a nuisance as it still has to be uploaded somewhere else (nah, forget that).