Talk about opposite ends of the spectrum, Blossom Dearie and Clara Butt.
I'd never heard of them, checked several of their singings out on YouTube.
Thanks Max and David.
The voices that still transport me: Enrico Caruso, esp his 'La Donna e
Mobile': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aef9DGvZ8Qo&feature=related
And Cecilia Bartoli, esp her 'Dove Sono' [after 4 minutes of Diana Damrau]:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cFbSSEKBEE&feature=related
Best,
Judy
2009/2/22 David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
> The opposite of which might have been the voice of the awesome Dame
> Clara Butt, a recording of which I chanced to hear this morning, of
> whom Beecham remarked that on a clear day you could hear her across
> the Channel.
> She used to dress as Britannia to sing for the Empire and her voice
> could politely be described as elephantine.
>
> best
>
> dav
>
> 2009/2/22 Tim Allen <[log in to unmask]>:
> >>My mind slips sideways to the death of Blossom Dearie, news of which led
> me
> >> to
> > Youtube.
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNpHSCiDVAo&feature=related
> >
> > 'Blossom Dearie's voice, critic Whitney Balliett once wrote, would
> scarcely
> > reach the second story of a doll house.'
> >
> > Max<
> >
> > Now that is poetry.
> >
> > Tim A.
> >
>
>
>
> --
> David Bircumshaw
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