Whistling

[oddoneout]

I would have though it to be well in the range of a coloratura siffleur, excuse my mix of languages! However the sound may lose power at the top end!

This reminds me of the delightful occasions on My Music when John Amis would demonstrate his skills as a siffleur.

[Maclintick]

Have just attempted to whistle the soprano solo from Mozart’s Exultate Jubilate.

Please reassure me that it is impossible.

Danielle De Niese done well, tho’.

Have a listen to the sublime Lucia Popp....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3OxRg2sNbUc

Pre-Hipp... but unsurpassed,IMHO

[greenilex]

Thanks, Mcl - and what an amazing cadenza!

[Ferretfancy]

This reminds me of the delightful occasions on My Music when John Amis would demonstrate his skills as a siffleur.

My Music, a ghastly programme, full of self satisfied performers who put on a show of struggling for the answers when it was patently obvious that they had been told them beforehand. BBC simper.

I cherish the moment when Imogen Cooper ( no relation) asked Joseph Cooper why he was such a terrible pianist!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

My Music, a ghastly programme, full of self satisfied performers who put on a show of struggling for the answers when it was patently obvious that they had been told them beforehand. BBC simper.

I cherish the moment when Imogen Cooper ( no relation) asked Joseph Cooper why he was such a terrible pianist!

That was Face the Music. My Music (chaired by Steve Race with regulars Frank Muir, Denis Norden, Ian Wallace, and John Amis) was the Musical equivalent(-ish) of My Word and originated on Radio.

[oddoneout]

Face the Music may have been ghastly(according to some) but my family enjoyed it.

[Ferretfancy]

That was Face the Music. My Music (chaired by Steve Race with regulars Frank Muir, Denis Norden, Ian Wallace, and John Amis) was the Musical equivalent(-ish) of My Word and originated on Radio.

You are absolutely right, my apologies!

[gradus]

Anyone remember if Face the Music was the programme that had Bernard Levin attempting (unsuccessfully) to conduct to a recording of the Hoe Down from Rodeo?

[DracoM]

Kids don't whistle now because they've got rock in their ears day and night. Why whistle, when it's being done for you and smashing your hearing?