Classical Brit Awards
May. 16th, 2006 11:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redfiona99Watched them on ITV. The TV version diddled me out of Julian Lloyd-Webber. I am not happy, because he is both good and a cellist so I want to see him on TV. Seriously, the cello needs to be more represented on TV.
(starts a campaign)
Other things I am annoyed about - the hype around Vittorio Grigolo. Now he's not bad. Indeed, he's quite good. But he's not all that. For example, he was performing 'Maria' from West Side Story. Which was all fine and good, except he kept taking these huge, obvious breaths, so huge that you could probably have heard them even if he hadn't been mic-ed up.
Later on, Placido Domingo was performing a duet with another new wonder tenor, whose name I can't for the life of me remember, and going for notes that he isn't quite as able to get as he used to and hence having to put quite bit of effort in. But, despite this, there were no huge breaths. Now, I'm not a good singer, but I know that part of the idea is not to let the audience know you're breathing, and that quite a bit of basic singing performance technique is in how to control your breathing so you don't end up gulping like a fish out of water. I find it hard to get behind the hype when the person in question is lacking something in such basic techniques.
(starts a campaign)
Other things I am annoyed about - the hype around Vittorio Grigolo. Now he's not bad. Indeed, he's quite good. But he's not all that. For example, he was performing 'Maria' from West Side Story. Which was all fine and good, except he kept taking these huge, obvious breaths, so huge that you could probably have heard them even if he hadn't been mic-ed up.
Later on, Placido Domingo was performing a duet with another new wonder tenor, whose name I can't for the life of me remember, and going for notes that he isn't quite as able to get as he used to and hence having to put quite bit of effort in. But, despite this, there were no huge breaths. Now, I'm not a good singer, but I know that part of the idea is not to let the audience know you're breathing, and that quite a bit of basic singing performance technique is in how to control your breathing so you don't end up gulping like a fish out of water. I find it hard to get behind the hype when the person in question is lacking something in such basic techniques.
