THANK YOU! Yes, Miah and Lucia! And Sarah!

THANKS!

I am embarrassed to say that I had loved Lucia Popp's singing for years (decades?), thinking that she was just one more in the seemingly endless line of wonderful lady singers England somehow managed to produce, despite having little in the way of musical culture except for Cathedral singing (oops!), only to find out that Lucia Popp was the Hometown Honey of: Bratislava!

Wayul, shut my mouth!

And you know who else lines up in that fach? Sarah Connolly. IMHO.

I somehow wrangled backstage access for myself and my very talented singer daughter after Sir Colin Davis' final (final) Boston Symphony Gerontius, and when I stopped Miss Connolly walking by by using a cute pickup line, she definitely regarded me as just another brassy Yank. But not knowing how important or not I was, she had to play nice, I guess.

But, then I told her that her singing had so reminded me of Alfreda Hodgson's, and I really thought she was going to melt.

She changed so much--(my imagined thought processes for her) "Oh, he might really know something about music, and oh--that's not a girlfriend, that's his daughter, who sings."

I did not get out the trowel to lay it on that one of my daughter's vocal coaches had been Sir David Willcocks. Or that I had tried to hire Ms. Hodgson, but--too late. So I hired Kaaren Erickson, but then she died too, weeks before the CD was released.

All that said, the change in Miss Connolly's attitude was very gratifying.

So, here's a different version of what I heard Sarah Connolly sing twice in Boston:

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Heartbreaking. But addictive.

ATB,

john

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Topic - Mozart Mass in C Minor - Bill the K 20:14:02 01/12/15 (28)

Exultate, jubilate KV 165 - Bill the K 22:16:07 01/18/15 (0)

RE: Mozart Mass in C Minor - bald2 21:23:19 01/17/15 (1)

Exultate, jubilate KV 165 - Bill the K 22:10:43 01/18/15 (0)

Out of 92, here are Arkivmusic's Recommendations +BABE ALERT - John Marks 17:23:00 01/13/15 (11)

RE: Out of 92, here are Arkivmusic's Recommendations +BABE ALERT - Logan 19:34:19 01/15/15 (1)

THANK YOU! Yes, Miah and Lucia! And Sarah! - John Marks 20:59:04 01/15/15 (0)

Keep up the good work - 13th Duke of Wymbourne 17:04:17 01/15/15 (1)

Thanks. Please join "The Peasants with Pitch Pipes." And toast their future success with CTNDP! - John Marks 06:57:30 01/17/15 (0)

A story about her recording of Mahler's 4th - TGR 17:41:01 01/14/15 (1)

The streaming version of her Wigmore Hall recital sounds great. - John Marks 18:01:43 01/14/15 (0)

No Teresa Stich-Randall, alas - rbolaw 14:08:56 01/14/15 (1)

- famous for driving around Vienna in her Alpha Romeo sports car too! [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 14:29:30 01/14/15 (0)

RE: Out of 92, here are Arkivmusic's Recommendations +BABE ALERT - jec01 07:08:54 01/14/15 (0)

RE: Out of 92, here are Arkivmusic's Recommendations +BABE ALERT - Bill the K 04:30:11 01/14/15 (0)

I like the pic - I've got that recording too - Chris from Lafayette 18:00:18 01/13/15 (0)

Bill - why is the subject of your post "Mozart Mass in C Minor". . . - Chris from Lafayette 11:12:49 01/13/15 (7)

Sorry, my mistake - Bill the K 20:06:24 01/13/15 (1)

I don't know if this is what you're hearing with Cecelia, but. . . - Chris from Lafayette 23:25:16 01/13/15 (0)

Scott Joplin's opera "Treemonisha" - rbolaw 12:16:04 01/13/15 (4)

RE: Scott Joplin's opera "Treemonisha" - Travis 18:03:21 01/13/15 (2)

RE: Scott Joplin's opera "Treemonisha" - rbolaw 09:07:16 01/14/15 (1)

RE: Scott Joplin's opera "Treemonisha" - Travis 09:12:46 01/14/15 (0)

D'oh! You got me again! - Chris from Lafayette 12:32:03 01/13/15 (0)

I own both; both have their strengths. nt - tinear 09:07:40 01/13/15 (0)

RE: Mozart Mass in C Minor - jec01 07:18:28 01/13/15 (1)

RE: Mozart Mass in C Minor - Bill the K 09:44:03 01/13/15 (0)

RE: Mozart Mass in C Minor - pbarach 03:23:51 01/13/15 (1)

RE: Mozart Mass in C Minor - eleiko2@verizon.net 13:37:58 01/26/15 (0)

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