[lit-ideas] Re: Poems in Two Accents
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:44:39 -0700
On Oct 25, 2009, at 4:39 PM, Mike Geary wrote:
I like.
Mike
That bears repeating, I think. It's been quite the weekend for
finding things. Quite by accident I found this fellow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQNSndjshRU
And then his performance of "A Man's a Man for a' That" led me to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOBcFt5tevY
which suggests there was a television program devoted to Burns'
umpteenth birthday, which was celebrated this year, and that this
Paolo Numpty could be good if only he could figure out what to sing.
Be warned, on other videos he sings versions of American songs and
his ear is for accents is not sound. But there's a voice of some
sort there.
J. sent me a note to say that I ought to look up Florence Foster
Jenkins. I did.
She's the McGonagall of opera. Here she is, with cats. Who could
not love cats?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtf2Q4yyuJ0
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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