Skellers back on Essential Classics

[oddoneout]

Love Ian Skelly. He was brilliant at the Cheltenham Festival (not the horsey one) you just felt in friendly musical safe hands. And I that there is a proliferation of 'tuh' as in "we are going tuh make significant changes tuh... programming" and "we will have tuh cut back on funding...music in schools" cannot help myself..tuh-tuht ting.

or the cricket one or the literature one or the jazz one?
I see that what I knew as the Competitive Festival is now the Festival of Performing Arts.

[Roger Webb]

They like their sex in Surbiton - they put their recycling out for collection in them.

[vinteuil]

I thought "yars" was posh for yes - the infamous drawl effect.

... current 'posh' for yes is ears.

Allegedly. Ears, I think so....

[Master Jacques]

I bet that was a voice with “blade “ that cut right through to the upper circle ...

https://youtu.be/W-k7UM1SMvg

I am too young to have heard Martyn Green singing live, of course.

The son of a professional tenor of repute, he trained at the Royal College of Music for three years under his father’s teacher, the veteran Italian baritone Gustave Garcia, who was one of the last remaining bel canto specialists, from the famous family: ‘I have never had a great voice, nor even a big one, but what little I have I have kept solely because Gustav Garcia showed me how to use it’ (Here’s a How-De-Do). The Garcia method was all about letting the music flow from the text, not the other way round.

‘Lowbrow’ G&S was frowned on at the Royal College, but he studied elocution privately with the former D’Oyly Carte singer Cairns James, realizing that flawless diction was essential for any stage performer. So I have no doubt that between them, those two ensured that Green cut through to the upper circle with ease.

It's fascinating to recall that in the mid-50s he recorded an album of Moondog's childrens' songs, called Tell It Again, in partnership with ... Julie Andrews! He was a very versatile actor-singer indeed, and this has to be one of the oddest albums ever recorded. Extract here:

https://youtu.be/BFIs-YaeGAU

[LMcD]

South Ken / Chelsea Yes is Yar (singular)

Oh - not 'yah'?

[Old Grumpy]

They like their sex in Surbiton - they put their recycling out for collection in them.

Thought that was Morningside...

...it used to be what coal came in.

[LMcD]

Probably carried in by some of Miss Brodie's gels

[Old Grumpy]

RP, BBC.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/10/former-bbc-newsreader-blames-rp-accent-for-lack-of-work/

[Roger Webb]

Thought that was Morningside...

...it used to be what coal came in.

Upcycled for the 21st century.

[antongould]

... Ian Skelly* 'posh'?!

If a fairly standard RP accent elicits such prejudice - heaven help us...


[* Born in Manchester, grew up in West Lancashire, studied at Birmingham City University, saith wiki ]

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Skellers on TwittX

“ I’m with you Jess, speaking, quite literally, as a Lancastrian. To my ear you are a true Cumbrian and it’s a wonderful accent. When I started BBC Radio Lancashire wouldn’t let me on… because I had a Lancashire accent. Funny how “now brown cows” have changed their, er, spots.”