"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 12:54:21 +0100, "Keith G"
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"RobertL" wrote in message
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On Oct 2, 11:00 pm, "Keith G" wrote:
"Roy" roy@somedomainsomewhere wrote in message

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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.

... had been
shredding 'crossover singers' - opera/classically trained singers
trying
to do 'pop' &c. and saying how it rarely/if ever works (think Kiri
Te
Kanawa)

.. but think "Freddy Mercury" for an example where it did work.



You mean Barselona? :-)




Funnily enough, in that song Freddie sang real words, and Monsarrat
just made vague vowelly mouth noises.

Strange that


Yes, exactly that - I'm watching it right now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFLu6bu7LEk