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Janthefan
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« Reply #30 on: 10:29:56, 26-06-2007 »
I suppose it's a case of "If you've got it, Flaunt it !"

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« Reply #31 on: 15:27:02, 26-06-2007 »
I would love to sound like Jussi Bjorling (hence the picture of the great man as my avatar). Alas, the distance between the sound that Bjorling and I make is roughly equivalent to the distance between the North and South Poles, alas   Sad
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« Reply #32 on: 20:56:25, 26-06-2007 »
Quote from: ernani on 15:27:02, 26-06-2007
I would love to sound like Jussi Bjorling (hence the picture of the great man as my avatar). Alas, the distance between the sound that Bjorling and I make is roughly equivalent to the distance between the North and South Poles, alas   Sad

Jussi's my all time favourite singer, ernani, but I wouldn't want to sound like someone who makes me go weak at the knees when I hear his voice - I'd fall over every time I opened my mouth! 
For you:

From http://www.cantabile-subito.de/Tenors/Bjoerling__Jussi/hauptteil_bjoerling__jussi.html

Do you know this site? http://www.borlange.se/templates/BlgUnitStartPage____6972.aspx
There are some remarkable audio excerpts there which include the very young Jussi singing with his brothers. Plus some brief video footage too.

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« Reply #33 on: 00:27:54, 27-06-2007 »
MabelJane

Wonderful - thank you  Kiss
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« Reply #34 on: 01:46:26, 27-06-2007 »
Well, I like Jussi Björling as much as anyone, but also poor Fritz Wunderlich.

Nevertheless, I wish I could sound like George London singing Mussorgsky.

If I were a woman, pigs would fly and then I'd be too panicked to sing much.
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Ian Pace
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« Reply #35 on: 01:50:40, 27-06-2007 »
Quote from: Chafing Dish on 01:46:26, 27-06-2007
If I were a woman, pigs would fly and then I'd be too panicked to sing much.
Now there's an aphorism that can stand its own alongside those of Nietzsche.
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« Reply #36 on: 07:47:57, 27-06-2007 »
Quote from: Ian Pace on 01:50:40, 27-06-2007
Quote from: Chafing Dish on 01:46:26, 27-06-2007
If I were a woman, pigs would fly and then I'd be too panicked to sing much.
Now there's an aphorism that can stand its own alongside those of Nietzsche.
Priceless!

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« Reply #37 on: 13:43:59, 27-06-2007 »
Do we all have to change our avatars?
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« Reply #38 on: 15:49:18, 27-06-2007 »
Quote from: rauschwerk on 21:10:25, 25-06-2007
You must mean Marni Nixon. She could also sing Webern most beautifully (as on Robert Craft's recordings).

Yes, Marni Nixon is the one. There was a (radio) programme about her a while back and apparently when she dubbed for Deborah Kerr in 'The King and I', they got on famously. I have just rung HMV about the recordings you mention, but was told that Marni Nixon's recordings have been discontinued. Pity.
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« Reply #39 on: 12:24:50, 28-06-2007 »
I can sing, up to a point, and am a chorus member and soloist with my local Male Voice Choir.

For the sort of repertoire that I use for solos, I'd like to be able to sing like Owen Brannigan, who was a guest artiste with our choir once or twice in the early 50s.

Ian.
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« Reply #40 on: 18:22:55, 28-06-2007 »
If I had a sex change (and returned to more youthful times) I would like to sing like Anne-Sofie von Otter or Ekaterina Semenchuk.
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