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Music at a....certain event
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Originally posted by Finzi4ever View PostAt the time, until I saw her, I didn't believe it was Elin MT singing...(just me?)
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View PostFirst time I heard the Boyce. Quite enjoyed that. All the music was lovely!
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Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostReally?
"Who decided this?" "S/he did."
"Whom decided this?" "Her/Him did."
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Originally posted by Caliban View PostA nervous Elin MT, I thought - but I recognised the voice (just)...
A friend of mine remarked that he thought it was a chorister (circa 9 years old) until EMT popped up on the visuals. To which I replied 'and not a very good one.'
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Nevilevelis
Originally posted by underthecountertenor View PostI did too: it came over to me as just what I was expecting. Namely someone without the technique to overcome the nerves and/or turn them into adrenaline. A horribly wayward performance by a mystifyingly overrated singer. I can think of any number of young professionals who could have sung it with perfect intonation, clear diction and the musicality to match Blackadder's playing. Presumably none of them was available.
A friend of mine remarked that he thought it was a chorister (circa 9 years old) until EMT popped up on the visuals. To which I replied 'and not a very good one.'
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Originally posted by Nevilevelis View PostAgreed, but I felt sorry for her. Unless you can knock it out of the park (likely candidates: Louise Alder or Carolyn Sampson), just say no. The decision to sing a piece written for countertenor up an octave at A 415 was the first mistake. Perhaps it's the done thing with this particluar aria (she has recorded it, I think) but unless the technique is rock-solid and the personality unflappable... In that scoring C at A 440 would be kinder.
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Originally posted by underthecountertenor View PostWise words, as ever. But I couldn’t really bring myself to feel sorry for her, because as you say, she could have said no. It struck me as pure hubris. Mind you, the attention will do her no harm.Last edited by doversoul1; 21-05-18, 20:59.
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Originally posted by doversoul1 View PostThat’s a bit harsh. Any performer can have a bad day. EMT is definitely not a mystifyingly overrated singer. If you were a professional singer (you may well be), would you want a label stuck on you forever as ‘the one who turned down the performance at a royal wedding because s/he didn’t think s/he could manage’? The world isn’t always so understanding especially when such thing as this event is concerned.
Since you mention it, and for what it’s worth, I am very much a part-time professional singer - I get paid for singing but it’s by no means my principal source of income. I’ve sung ‘Eternal Source...’ once, for my sister’s wedding, for no fee and not without some reservations. But I don’t think that, if EMT had turned down the Royal Wedding gig, it would ever have come out in the open that she had done so, or that she would have been ‘labelled’ as a result.
As it happens, equally I don’t think that the deficiencies in her performance will have done her any harm. Indeed I would put money on Radio 3 making a big deal out of ‘Royal Wedding Singer EMT’ on Record Review and/or the Early Music Show before very long. And that’s fine, I suppose. But do spare a thought for the truly wonderful young sopranos (and other singers) out there who must have found themselves wondering why they bother.Last edited by underthecountertenor; 22-05-18, 09:16.
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Richard Tarleton
Originally posted by Caliban View PostTerrific. ("With this, I'll sit down - we gotta get y'all married" ! )
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Originally posted by Richard Tarleton View PostI only caught the highlights but read the transcript in The Times. I am not sure what jean means by "what a sermon" (which could go either way, a bit like "good is not the word" ) but...really, Cali, I thought it was a pile of utter bilge, a meaningless rant, a string of words. If you pick it apart, and try to follow a coherent train of thought, there isn't one. I can't imagine what people who found it uplifting were on. My reaction may be down to my Myers-Briggs personality type (INTJ - look it up ) - obviously I'm not cut out to be a Pentecostal, or whatever he is.
There’s also some quite nasty and uncalled for stuff being written about Elin MT above. IMO she’s from the Emma Kirkby pure style of singing stable and with a distinguished pedigree from Clare College to the Sixteen. A thoroughly nice person as well.
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