my school project

[anne]

Hello from Annie,
I just wanted to say that I did my project for my Industry class. As I said it was a comparison sort of between singers that I like for their style on and off stage. I did very well on it and got 97%. My teacher said that over 95% is a perfect mark, bust she does not give out 100%. Sort of funny I think!
So anyway I used photos of several of the people here and I thank you all very much for your letting me do that.
from Annie

[roger]

Hi Annie,

Congratulations for doing so well with your project. 97 per cent is a splendid achievement and I hope you enjoyed doing it. I am sure Hayley would be delighted to think she helped in some small way.

Best wishes,
Roger

[Richard]

Very well done, Annie!

Richard

[postscript]

Jun 17, 2009 18:42:47 GMT @anne said:

Hello from Annie,
I just wanted to say that I did my project for my Industry class. As I said it was a comparison sort of between singers that I like for their style on and off stage. I did very well on it and got 97%. My teacher said that over 95% is a perfect mark, bust she does not give out 100%. Sort of funny I think!
So anyway I used photos of several of the people here and I thank you all very much for your letting me do that.
from Annie

Well done, Annie. Thanks for updating us. Glad all went well with your project. Something you will doubtless always want to keep as a milestone.

I can understand your teacher never giving 100%. Many professionals are like that. Their perceptions are that there is such a thing as perfection and they will know it when it happens. Until then they hold back their judgment.

The classic on this for me is Torvill and Dean. They were the first to gain a complete set of 6's. No one yet has ever matched them. If you watched the 'Dancing on Ice' series, you will have marveled at the way and speed complete novices achieved competent professional status in so short a time. Then at the end Torvill and Dean performed Bolero. Suddenly you were on a different planet. In their absolute perfection of smoothness and in the delicateness of their delivery you realised how inadequate, by comparison were the performances of the others. This was indeed perfection.

Dame Malvina Major, in an oblique criticism of Dame Kiri Te Kinawa's outrageous outburst against young singers, said, 'You don't need to tell people what is good, they know it when they hear it.'

That was why, when I met Dame Malvina with Hayley (and I've met both Dames) I was able to say to her, 'Tonight, I know that I have heard one of the greatest voices in the world today. It is both exhilarating and very humbling.' Richard, amongst others, periodically nags me to say the same of Hayley and I won't. The reason? Because she is superb and is without doubt giving us the best she can at the present time and it is magnificent. There is more to come, She has not reached the maturity of her potential. When she does, I will know it and be able to say of her 'I have heard one of the greatest voices in the world'.

Dame Malvina is approaching the twilight of a world career of solid, consistent delivery and is at the height of her powers. Hayley has still potential to unleash. She has magnificent command of the stage and her performance but she is still honing her essential tool, her voice. Look to her own lyrics as have been discussed elsewhere on this forum. Her creativity is for ever reaching up and beyond, epitomising the human spirit's soaring desire to reach the ultimate. That is why no judging panel before or since Torvill and Dean have awarded sixes across the board. There is such a thing as perfection. You know it when you see or hear it. There is such a thing as perfection when the human spirit knows that it has 'come home'. I suspect that is why your teacher never gives 100%, on principle.

wishing you well and on to greater success.

Peter S.

[martindn]

Well, Peter, I have to disagree with you. When I first heard Hayley, aged 16, it took me 10 seconds to realise that she was world class. No other 16 year old I have ever heard comes close. Very few of any age have to be honest.

Yes Hayley is still developing, but perhaps Dame Malvina is too. We all develop and change as we get older. You can only go on what you hear, and as Dame Malvina said, you don't need to be told when you hear something good.

Hayley's development was brought home to me today, whan I listened again to Oddysey for the first time for a while. I have been playing stuff from the Valentines Tour a lt recently, and the contrast in the way she now sings "Never Saw Blue" stood out. The Oddysey recording sounded flat and expressionless in comparison, and she seemed to chicken out of a high note that she now sings. Her voice is so much richer and fuller, and her delivery more expressive than it was then. That even though the sound quality is obviously better on the studio recoding.

So yes, she is still developing, but she is and always was one of the world's finest singers, from the age of 15 onwards. I already know that, I don't need to wait until she reaches her peak.

Sorry, we seem to have wandered off topic.

Well done Annie!

Martin

[Joe]

Hi, Annie !

Well done on your project!

Best wishes,
Joe