The Fridays Tour

[Aperitif]

Sorry, that won't fit.....

It's only a picture to show you where you can sit, Stu...

 

[Aperitif]

Scuse me mister, your superfluous preposition is dangling (they often do that when kilts are worn, so I've heard ).

Quite.
Best left dangling on porpoise. 'falloffof' was just too good an opportunity...Now I feel awful, so I'll eat a falafel and maybe feel all full.

 

[rvw]

2012 may be the first FNRttC tour but its also the 100th anniversary of Kathleen Ferrier's birth.

She can also give us all a run for our money in terms of going through the pain barrier - in her last public performance, in February 1953, she broke her femur on stage. And still managed to take several curtain calls. Surely that's the spirit* to get us through the "hell of the north"!

*apart from the whisky, of course.

 

[Aperitif]

I wouldn't like to Ferrier from London to John O' Groats. Just because she took the stage after someone had said "break a leg" is her fault entirely. The hell of the North is a cakewalk compared to the 'shoot-a-nobber'* adventure weekend that Noodley is selling tickets for.(here we go again)

* Noodley - desist.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Personally I cannot abide it when some pseudo-posh over trained opera singer with an English diction bypass starts murdering folk songs. Especially when the song is in a dialect and ends up getting sung RP-stylee.

Yes, I mean you, Lesley Garrett, amongst others.

Pseudo-posh over trained opera singer singing opera, on the other hand, is balm to the soul. Well, if it is the right opera, anyway.

 

[srw]

But a Lancashire lass who only ever took two stage roles and specialised in song and oratorio - at a time when folk song was a core part of the song repertoire and was the main reason it became known?

The fashion in the 40s and 50s was to sing English as if it had Italian vowels - so Ferrier was out of step.

[edit]
You're right about Garrett, though - Lancashire lass or no - mainly because she's under-talented and over-exposed.

 

[Aperitif]

I used to regularly perform opera in bath, but it just wouldn't wash with the audience. I used to give them any old flannel - the ungrateful suds.
Leave Lesley Garrett alone, Ref - she ain't dun nuffin'

 

[dellzeqq]

''pseudo' posh. Surely not! As for over-exposed.....

 

[mcshroom]

Oh and isn't she from near Doncaster, (on the right side of the Pennines) rather than Lancashire?

 

[clarion]

Thorne, in fact. But Clarkson also comes from Donny, so I'm a bit wary of folk from thereabouts.

 

[Sketchley]

Recovery from broken hand is going well, but I've still not been back on the bike, but have been going to the gym. Doctors orders are to be very careful if I do ride for at least another 2 weeks as one fall could result in serious break and surgery, so commuting hasn't been an option. Also the initial night ride is out for me and I'll be join you at Wellingborough for Breakfast.

Hoping to get out on the bike sometime on Monday or Tuesday and put in a few miles. If anyone has anything planned or fancies a ride that's fairly flat and risk free ride of about 30 to 50 miles on Monday or Tuesday then please let me know. No idea how quick or slow I'll be having been off the bike since March 26th.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

''pseudo' posh. Surely not! As for over-exposed.....

There are two very good reasons why I used to like Lesley Garrett. But her accent has got posher and posher since I first saw her at the Colosseum

 

[srw]

You've reminded me that Abraham and Isaac (Canticle 2) was written for Ferrier, Pears and Britten to perform together. One of my favourite bits of music - and music that was recycled into the War Requiem.

If I were at home I'd you-tube it.

 

[rvw]

There's a quote from the famous conductor Bruno Walter that the two greatest musical experiences in his life had been knowing Ferrier and Mahler - "in that order".

YouTube doesn't give us that version of Abraham and Isaac, sadly.

 

[srw]

Greg has got a point about over-composed versions of folksongs...