Post by graemek on Jul 20, 2008 4:23:40 GMT
Hi everyone,
Just found this review (again) on a blog to do with Fiona Pears.
I searched all over & found it again quoted by guess who.
Ian also included a review from the same source of Fiona's concert in Chichester a few days later. I will post it to her sub-board shortly.
Many thanks, Ian!
Roger
Still worth reading again.....just as true as ever.
Graeme
Just found this review (again) on a blog to do with Fiona Pears.
I searched all over & found it again quoted by guess who.
Jul 16, 2007 9:32:46 GMT @roger said:
This morning, I received an email from Ian Tilley (Hayley's Musical Director). It included the following review from The Chichester Observer:Hayley Westenra, Chichester Cathedral
Here’s the pitch: we twin with Christchurch, New Zealand. Blow long haul and civic junketing costs providing we get their angel-voiced daughter back here regularly.
It’s a prospect to make one go weak in the criticals, for this seriously problematic teenager’s performance quality means any description less than “perfection” is inadequate, as the audience endorsed by clapping and bravoing her into the ultimate mutual love ritual, two encores.
The programme was as impeccably chosen as it was sung, launched by Caccini’s Ave Maria and then enchantingly progressing through such folk songs as The Water is Wide, Scarborough Fair, Danny Boy, her Maori hit Pokarekare Ana and Shenandoah, plus some opera and a gentle ballad she co-wrote.
Hayley remains girlishly natural, but she’s canny and mature enough not to fall into the Dame Kiri trap of misaiming a majestic voice at cabaret/saloon bar material. And how shrewd of her to have vivacious fellow-Kiwi Fiona Pears, blonde hair flying as freely as her lovely violin notes, among the accompanists. This gifted composer/musician could elegantly fill an evening single-handed, so better make that a double annual booking for the antipodean lasses.
Ian Tilley’s piano and Misha Marks’ guitar completed the fab four on an evening which just couldn’t have been better. Next year, though, why not put the costs on the rates and let our adopted daughter Hayley give us a Concert For All in Priory Park?
Terry Timblick
Here’s the pitch: we twin with Christchurch, New Zealand. Blow long haul and civic junketing costs providing we get their angel-voiced daughter back here regularly.
It’s a prospect to make one go weak in the criticals, for this seriously problematic teenager’s performance quality means any description less than “perfection” is inadequate, as the audience endorsed by clapping and bravoing her into the ultimate mutual love ritual, two encores.
The programme was as impeccably chosen as it was sung, launched by Caccini’s Ave Maria and then enchantingly progressing through such folk songs as The Water is Wide, Scarborough Fair, Danny Boy, her Maori hit Pokarekare Ana and Shenandoah, plus some opera and a gentle ballad she co-wrote.
Hayley remains girlishly natural, but she’s canny and mature enough not to fall into the Dame Kiri trap of misaiming a majestic voice at cabaret/saloon bar material. And how shrewd of her to have vivacious fellow-Kiwi Fiona Pears, blonde hair flying as freely as her lovely violin notes, among the accompanists. This gifted composer/musician could elegantly fill an evening single-handed, so better make that a double annual booking for the antipodean lasses.
Ian Tilley’s piano and Misha Marks’ guitar completed the fab four on an evening which just couldn’t have been better. Next year, though, why not put the costs on the rates and let our adopted daughter Hayley give us a Concert For All in Priory Park?
Terry Timblick
Ian also included a review from the same source of Fiona's concert in Chichester a few days later. I will post it to her sub-board shortly.
Many thanks, Ian!
Roger
Still worth reading again.....just as true as ever.
Graeme