Strauss plant
Christopher Gillett on New Year waltzing _ Blogs _ Features _ Sinfini Music – Cutting Through Classical
Carols from King’s
A look inside the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from King’s College, Cambridge on Sinfini Christopher Gillett A King’s chorister recalls _ Blogs _ Features _ Sinfini Music – Cutting Through Classical.
Messiah
Some thoughts on Messiah and why I have a problem with it Too Many Messiahs_ _ Blogs _ Features _ Sinfini Music – Cutting Through Classical
Sad Banter
I actually feel a jab of pain and stress when someone who should know better calls Don Giovanni “Don Jee-oh-vahn-ee” or sounds the g in tagliatelle. When a pretentious American – and I have no idea why it’s only pretentious Americans who do this – pronounces the great tenor’s name “Pah-va-roh-ti” I want to slap them. I can’t help myself. We singers spend so much of our working lives perfecting this stuff that when someone cocks it up, it seriously grates.…
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