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From:  Trevor Allen <trevorjamesallen@y...>
Trevor Allen <trevorjamesallen@y...>
Date:  Sat Apr 14, 2001  1:08 am
Subject:  BAD singing


If anyone wants to hear some SOUR stuff, I would like
to suggest a Florence Foster Jenkins recording----"The
Glory? of the Human Voice". It is a diamond. Charles
Ives accompanying himself is also a kick to listen to.

Trevor


--- Tako Oda <toda@m...> wrote:
--- Tako Oda <toda@m...> wrote:
> The other evening I was at a party when I heard a
> recording of a
> tenor singing a *really* sour note. I was informed
> it was from a
> Donizetti performance at the Met more than a decade
> ago, and that
> this clip has become something of a cult phenomenon.
>
> The passage I remember hearing was A4, G4, E5 during
> an ensemle.
> Actually it was more like an Eb5 at the top, but you
> get the point of
> why the note was so sour :-) It was off a cassette,
> so potentially
> it might have been Bb4, Ab4, F5 (wouldn't put it
> past Donizetti)...
>
> Anyway, I would *love* to hear this again, and was
> hoping someone
> could give me more information about this little gem
> of a
> performance. Where might I download it? Is it
> available in CD stores?
> Is there some more info on it somewhere on the web?
>
> Thanks so much for your assistance.
>
> Tako
>
>


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