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Post by Richard on Sept 13, 2006 14:47:59 GMT
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Post by roger on Sept 13, 2006 15:01:05 GMT
I saw in the paper at the weekend that Universal have spent £2M in their quest for these four girls, so they must be in it for the long haul. If I can find the piece I will scan it tonight. Best Wishes Steve H Yes please, Steve! If anybody sees anything on All Angels, please post it here.  Roger |
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Post by Raymond on Sept 13, 2006 15:31:18 GMT
I like their voice! I have a feeling that they will become very popular in the future. Raymond |
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Post by Dave on Sept 13, 2006 20:00:37 GMT
Hello everyone, Only 24 hours after first learning of All Angels, we are already so convinced of their future success as a very popular classical crossover quartet that we have opened a dedicated sub-board for them. This thread is now located in the new sub-board (inside the Other Music board).  The first person to discover the full track listing for their debut album is welcome to start a new thread with it. Keep checking back as we will have some exciting news about them in the near future...  Cheers, Dave |
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Post by postscript on Sept 14, 2006 15:29:01 GMT
Hello everyone, Only 24 hours after first learning of All Angels, we are already so convinced of their future success as a very popular classical crossover quartet that we have opened a dedicated sub-board for them. This thread is now located in the new sub-board (inside the Other Music board). The first person to discover the full track listing for their debut album is welcome to start a new thread with it. Keep checking back as we will have some exciting news about them in the near future... Cheers, Dave Sounds very exciting Dave. Do you mean news about Hayley also soloing their backing...?! Peter S. |
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Post by roger on Sept 14, 2006 17:30:10 GMT
Not as far as we know, Peter, but such things are by no means impossible. I can reveal that Hayley does know them! Watch this space, as they say! Roger |
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Post by postscript on Sept 15, 2006 6:07:54 GMT
Not as far as we know, Peter, but such things are by no means impossible. I can reveal that Hayley does know them! Watch this space, as they say! Roger Teaser! Peter S. |
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Post by roger on Sept 15, 2006 10:15:20 GMT
Who me?  Roger |
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Post by drew on Sept 15, 2006 13:12:41 GMT
Record of the day 12th September: www.recordoftheday.com/cgi-bin/featuredClips.cgiRecord of the Day - 12 September 2006
"Songbird" by All Angels
Universal Classics and Jazz, Contact: Donna Cass, UCJ - Tel: +44 (0)7471 5101
Launched by UCJ as the world’s first female classical supergroup, All Angels are Melanie, Laura, Daisy and Charlotte. All aged between 16 and 17, they are obviously a very talented bunch of girls- for one, Melanie is the current BBC Radio 2 Chorister of the Year. The choice of songs on their debut album which will be released in November highlights their impressive repertoire: classical songs that have been popularised in the recent past (Schubert’s Ave Maria, Barber’s Agnus Dei) and pop songs that are now classics, including this beautiful rendition of Fleetwood Mac's Songbird, made famous by Eva Cassidy's version. They will also help launch National Music Week in October.JF London Gig: 12 Sep The Music Room (Showcase), W1K.
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Post by drew on Sept 15, 2006 13:19:24 GMT
If we follow the National Music Week links it takes us here: www.nationalmusicweek.net/all_angels.aspxfor some details about the members of the group. MELANIE NAKHLA, 17 (Date of Birth 29.12.88)
Multi-lingual Melanie, from London, sums up the universal appeal of All Angels by her choice of influences. “My idols are Maria Callas and Ella Fitzgerald,” she says. “Because they both made every song their own every time they sang it.” One of five children who all play instruments, Melanie has played violin from a young age and used to take singing lessons with all her siblings – “just like the Von Trapp family!” She loves romantic composers like Elgar and Debussy but like any teenage girl she enjoys pop as much as classical music: “I like The Kooks and Dirty Pretty Things but I also really enjoy operas like La Boheme and The Marriage Of Figaro, and a bit of dance music too.” She has just completed her AS Levels, has played tennis and netball at county level and is learning to fly a Cessna two-seater plane: “I’ve flown over Jamiroquai’s house – but I haven’t spotted him yet!” plans to take A-Levels in French, Spanish and Economics next year and is looking forward to a gap year to improve her Spanish further by travelling in South America-and to do some charity work. Well travelled, she already speaks French and Latin, thanks to family members spread all over the globe, and she has toured across Italy as head of her school choir. “There has not been a girl group of young girls like this before,” she says, “so hopefully we will bring something new to the music and not just be another classical group of girls.”
CHARLOTTE RITCHIE, 17 (Date of Birth 29.08.89)
Charlotte, from Clapham, south London, did not really discover classical music until she began revising for her exams. “My parents don’t really listen to classical music,” she admits, “but I began listening to Classic FM when I was revising for my GCSEs because a friend told me it was the best kind of music to listen to when you revise because it doesn’t interrupt your studies.” At age 11 Charlotte joined the National Youth Music Theatre and performed in a touring production of Pendragon in Japan, as well as appearing in summer productions in London, Devon and Edinburgh with NYMT and its successor YMT: UK. “I’ve done more acting than singing so far,” admits Charlotte, who says her first love is musical theatre, and that she would like one day to tread the boards of the West End stage. To the envy of nearly all her friends, she appeared briefly as a student in Harry Potter: The Goblet of Fire, and in 2004 played the lead in a short film The Open Doors with Michael Sheen and Cheri Lunghi. “I love going out with my friends and listening to music - I love when people send me new bands – old and new - that I haven’t heard of. At the moment I’m listening to Jeff Buckley, Counting Crows and a lot of Cuban music. And of course my brother’s band Sevenball!” Charlotte is appearing in The Pierglass, at the Young Pleasance Theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe in August 2006, and is also a big fan of musicals like Les Mis, Miss Saigon and Blood Brothers – “gritty things that are about more than show tunes”. She says of All Angels: “Classical music always seems so far away from the mainstream but lots of my friends now listen to it. And I don’t think it should be looked at in that snobby way. I think we are relatively normal so it brings the music to a level everyone can access.”
LAURA WRIGHT, 16 Date of Birth 17.06.90)
The baby of the group at just 16, Laura only began taking singing lessons in 2003, but already by 2005 she had won BBC Radio 2’s Young Chorister of the Year competition. After early musical experience playing the piano, Laura developed her musical side when she became a choirgirl at Framlingham College, where she has music and art scholarships. A regular soloist with the Suffolk Singers, Laura has sung as guest soprano in John Rutter’s Requiem at St Paul’s Cathedral, broadcast on Radio 2. Laura, who comes from Suffolk, likes to spend her spare time singing backing vocals for her favourite rock band A Personal Victory – fronted by her brother Seamus. That’s when she’s not cheering on her other brothers: Liam, who competes at national level in the decathlon and has his sights set on Olympic gold in London 2012, and Paddy, president of his university hockey team. Laura’s favourite composer is Hans Zimmer, famous for his film soundtracks, and she enjoys listening to Alicia Keys, Jimmy Eat World and Coldplay. An all-round sports prodigy, she has represented her schools since the age of 10 in swimming, netball, athletics, tennis, hockey and rounders. She has represented East of England in javelin, and her county in hockey and athletics, and reached the national schools tennis finals with her school team. Laura is also a keen member of the Army Division of the Combined Cadet Corps holding the rank of Lance Corporal. She says: “This is an amazing opportunity and an amazing experience to have at 16. It is hard work but fun as well.”
DAISY CHUTE, 17 (Date of birth 17.08.89)
Bubbly Scot Daisy began her performing career at 9 as Young Cosette in the touring production of Les Miserables. At the age of 13 she appeared in front of six million television viewers as the young Judy Garland in Stars In Their Eyes Kids, and made the first of many appearances on the Edinburgh Fringe. At 15 she recorded her debut album: she was encouraged by American jazz vocalist Mark Murphy, who compared her voice to a young Barbra Streisand, she hired a pianist, bassist and drummer and recorded her disc of jazz standards, Simply Jazz, in the dining room of her parents’ Edinburgh home. The result impressed jazz veteran Humphrey Lyttleton so much that she became the youngest singer ever to be played on his BBC Radio 2 show. Daisy now studies at the Purcell School in Bushey, Herts, but her first love remains jazz: “All my life I’ve loved singers like Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan. But I also like listening to indie rock like Snow Patrol, Radiohead, The Killers and Razorlight”. Daisy’s opportunity to join All Angels came when she was singing at the Royal Albert Hall’s School Proms with the Loretto Ensemble last November “I was wearing a kilt, with a chamber ensemble, and I slipped Howard Goodall my CD - because that’s what you do!” Before long Goodall had hired her for his Channel 4 programme, How Music Works, and recommended her to Universal Music for All Angels. “I always knew I wanted to do something musical,” she says. “Singing was always the most important thing to me.” Daisy has also graced the cover of numerous girls’ magazines and books, appeared in several television and radio plays, and worked as a reporter for Newsround, covering the Smash Hits Poll Winners’ Party. |
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Post by drew on Sept 15, 2006 13:30:12 GMT
Listen to the video and you may hear the words "We got to meet Hayley Westenra, the singer, last night.....Good Luck with everything. Put a smile on your face and keep it there as long as possible". Well we have heard of Hayley's Big Brothers - Il Divo, now we hear from Hayley's (other) Little Sisters - All Angels. Fancy giving advice at the tender age of 19. www.nationalmusicweek.net/artistmaterial/artist_video_ID1_1.mpgBe patient - it takes a little while to load. |
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Post by Richard on Sept 15, 2006 14:45:26 GMT
Great finds there Drew!  Now I want to hear more of their Flower Duet, sung as a quartet! Very good advice from Hayley too, and she certainly practices what she preaches! i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gifBest Wishes, Richard  |
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Post by Dave on Sept 15, 2006 14:50:12 GMT
Hi Drew, Thanks very much for that link... there's a lot of extra information there, some of which we already knew but couldn't say! But now, we can and I'll leave it to Roger to "spill the beans" And the Songbirds track is every bit as beautiful as i imagined it to be from the short clip.... if the rest of the album is as good as this, Hayley fans are going to be in for a real treat Keep watching this space, folks! Cheers, Dave |
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Post by drew on Sept 15, 2006 15:09:01 GMT
Release date for the album is November 13th. Track listing is not available at this time. Keeping watching umusic website.
(This information from Universal Music Classics & Jazz Press & Promotions office.)
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Post by Raymond on Sept 15, 2006 15:25:40 GMT
I think All Angels' music brings me back the feeling when I listened to Hayley's music for the first time. Just like Hayley's music, their music is such a harmony. It makes people want to listen again and again.
Raymond
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