Musical talents that never quite made it....

[Roehre]

Katherine Jenkins is 'making it' in the only way she can. She'd never have got anywhere as a singer.

... let alone an opera singer

[Tony Halstead]

Hmmm.... what do MBoarders think of HAYLEY WESTENRA ..a sort of 'younger and more sophisticated version of K Jenkins'?
( it puts me in mind of Thomas Beecham's put-down of Karajan as 'a sort of MUSICAL Malcolm Sargent'...

[Nick Armstrong]

Possibly an even more germane question might be

do MBoarders think of HAYLEY WESTENRA ?

I don't think I know who she is and have no particular inclination to look her up....

[teamsaint]

Possibly an even more germane question might be

I don't think I know who she is and have no particular inclination to look her up....

A proto Judicial statement/question if ever I saw one.........

Edit: plenty of her CDs in charity shops, IIRC, if you need to get up to speed.

[salymap]

Hmmm.... what do MBoarders think of HAYLEY WESTENRA ..a sort of 'younger and more sophisticated version of K Jenkins'?
( it puts me in mind of Thomas Beecham's put-down of Karajan as 'a sort of MUSICAL Malcolm Sargent'...

Goods Morning Tony,

I always thought of that as a put-down of Sargent

[Sir Velo]

Hmmm.... what do MBoarders think of HAYLEY WESTENRA

It's an anagram right? I've got it!

HEY, NEW STRAW ARSE

[vinteuil]

It's an anagram right?

Wehe! Real nasty...

[Tevot]

Whatever happened to Cristina Ortiz?

[Stanfordian]

Whatever happened to cellist Ofra Harnoy?

[Richard Tarleton]

Whatever happened to Cristina Ortiz?

She seeems to be still active, looking at her website - perhaps as active as she wants to be? Though some of her engagements may not be exactly headline-grabbing. An artist who has, perhaps, found her comfortable level? She married concert agent Jasper Parrott.

[Nick Armstrong]

She seeems to be still active, looking at her website - perhaps as active as she wants to be? Though some of her engagements may not be exactly headline-grabbing. An artist who has, perhaps, found her comfortable level? She married concert agent Jasper Parrott.

She recorded the Fauré piano quintets a year or two ago for Naxos

[Richard Tarleton]

Whatever happened to cellist Ofra Harnoy?

This may answer your question!

Probably best remembered for that record cover, reclining suggestively with her cello

[pastoralguy]

Is it fair to include Nicola Benedetti in that list? I'm not knowledgable enough to comment on the merits of her playing (although she must be several leagues above KJ), but I don't think that she can be classified as a 'personality' - she seems to me to be a fairly modest young woman whose forays into being a 'person' rather than a 'performer' are on the whole directed at promoting music education.

Quite agree! No, she's not Ida Haendel or Anne-Sophie Mutter but I am convinced she is a serious artist who is developing as her career progresses.

[Roehre]

Quite agree! No, she's not Ida Haendel or Anne-Sophie Mutter but I am convinced she is a serious artist who is developing as her career progresses.

And I hope she'll develop better than Anne-sophie Mutter's co-prodigy in the late 1970s/early '80s Karin Lechner, starting with a brilliant Mozart, now sometimes appearing on Brilliant (Brahms concerto 1 e.g.)

[Barbirollians]

Korngold