Keith G wrote:
I've just heard some Kraut bass-baritone (Thomas Quasthoff) absolutely
*m-u-r-d-e-r* 'My Funny Valentine' (I think it was - difficult to tell)
after a lofty discussion on R3 just now about 'crossover singers'
failing and that gushy plonker Sean Rafferty has just called it
'sensational'....

??

Or is it me...??




Crossover singers - don'cha love 'em?

I was holidaying in Lubeck in Germany recently and went to a student
concert at the Musikhochschule. Great performances from kids between 12
and 21. However, it took me a while to figure out that one young Asian
girl was singing "Somewhere over the rainbow". Even longer to realise
she was singing in English.

Apparently in the ABRSM grade exams for singing, you have to do an
unaccompanied traditional song. I bet that approaches the dire quite often.

Roy.