Salisbury Cathedral - 23 Oct 2009

[Jillian]

It does look turquoise on stage, but in the shots off stage it looks more like a cyan/sky blue colour.

[comet]

Oct 24, 2009 22:33:17 GMT Jillian said:

It does look turquoise on stage, but in the shots off stage it looks more like a cyan/sky blue colour.

maybe it is the settings on my monitor..

Maybe HWI members should carry a Pantone colour reference with them so we can quote the actual colour number, or maybe a spectrometer and we could cut a sample from the dress hem and analyze it.



TURQUOISE has been one of my favourite colours since Pelikan did fountain pen ink in bottles.

[Libby]

Oct 24, 2009 22:21:20 GMT comet said:

I would have thought the girls would be sharper on colour

TURQUOISE

It's more blue than green, so there.

[Libby]

I've just realized the dress is a bit similar to the background of this forum! At least in the lights where it looks greener.

[graemek]

Hi Libby & All,
You may think I'm just trying to be funny but Hayley has a black dress on if the lights are out.
She also has black hair & black eyes.(with the lights still out)
When the lights are turned on (or the sun rises) then maybe that dress looks sky blue or darker blue.

There was a time when my monitor was failing and it's colours were being very influenced by black. Not realising, I edited a lot of Hayley pics to what I thought the colours were...but I was wrong.

Once I'd bought a new LCD monitor, everything looked perfect.

But as I'd had so much trouble I then proceeded to read as much as I could about true colour & our eyes & cameras & monitors & printers.

Well worth doing !!!

That's probably enough about that now but it's a very 'relative' subject.
Graeme

[postscript]

Hi Jeff.

Lovely report on Salisbury, thank you. You've set a good bar marker for the St Albans reports!

Peter S.

[Martin]

Hi All
I was going to provide a full report of the concert but Jeff has done the job for me and very excellently as well. I will add a few snippets though just to add a bit more information on the overall evening.

The total attendance was over 1400 which is perhaps one of the biggest audiences I have seen at a concert involving Hayley. Approximately only half of this number though had a direct view of the stage so video screens were provided.

At the end of the concert it was interesting to hear many (and I do many) of the audience on leaving saying to one another what a beautiful voice Hayley has. Now, of course, we take that for granted on HWI so it is even more gratifying to hear it from members of the public who probably had only just seen Hayley perform live for the very first time. Now all we want is for them to go out and buy one of her albums!

We had a chat with the piper in Paddy's photo at the end of the concert and he asked Eugene to take a photo of him so that he could show it to his family. He also said that it had been a great honour that evening to accompany Hayley on Amazing Grace. We knew exactly what he meant.

Raven were excellent that evening and I thought that their performance of Gabriel's Oboe with string accompaniment from the Royal Artillery band was one of the highlights of the evening. The girls wore posh frocks for this formal evening and Rachel's was so long that Kirsty had to act as maid to hold up the dress's train on exiting the stage!

Anyway, that's all folks. As I have said it was a very humbling and successful concert and Hayley provided her contribution in the most dignified manner for this very worthwhile cause.

Martin

[Richard]

From the Salisbury Journal:

Concert raises funds for services charities

By Jill Harding


Hayley Westenra with Cpl Lewis, from 6 Close Support
Battalion REME and organiser Penny Brown

THE voice of soprano sensation Hayley Westenra filled Salisbury Cathedral on Friday at a glittering concert raising money for three armed forces charities.

A Musical Tribute to our Forces, which was a sell out, also starred the all-female string quartet Raven and The Royal Artillery Band and Orchestra conducted by Major Tim Arnold.

It was raising money for the Army Benevolent Fund, Combat Stress and SSAFA Forces Help, with more than £30,000 going to the charities.

As patron of the Army Benevolent Fund and SSAFA Forces Help, The Queen sent a message of support before the event.

“I know that all three charities face a major challenge in answering the call of need in the years to come,” the message said.

“I hope this event will help in this respect and be a real tribute to our servicemen and women wherever they may be serving.”

In addition to operatic favourites such as Ave Maria and popular classical pieces including Jupiter from Holst’s Planet Suite, the programme offered some recent pop hits such as Take That’s Shine and Human by Las Vegas group The Killers.

There was also the Post Horn Gallop, Battle of Britain March and the Thistle before Miss Westenra ended with Amazing Grace to a standing ovation.

Speaking to the Journal before the concert, the 22-year-old New Zealand-born singing star said: “I am thrilled to be at Salisbury Cathedral, the atmosphere here is amazing.

“I was involved with the launch of the Poppy Appeal with Dame Vera Lynn in London and it has been fascinating to learn about the work of these very important service charities.

“They will be very much needed because of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and I feel it is important that people of my age understand what they do and support them.”

The concert was organised by Salisbury city councillor Penny Brown who was delighted that the 1,400 tickets sold out, with extra seating being made available in the transepts where people could hear the music and watch on large screens.

“The idea came to me about a year ago to do something really big that could be Wiltshire’s tribute to our armed forces,” she said.

“We wanted to show that the service charities do work together.

“It has been fantastic to get so many great performers here to Salisbury and I’m delighted with the programme.

“We wanted the music to appeal to a wide age group – young and old alike.

“Sometimes people associate these charities with older people but they are just as relevant to the younger generation.

“Our thanks go to our sponsor KBR and everyone who has been part of the concert.”

The Journal’s forces correspondent and organising committee member David Falcke said afterwards: “This was a stupendous concert.

“People have been stopping me in the street to say how marvellous it was. It has done us proud.”

Richard

[Jeff]

VNSOUTH.TV now have a video of the soundcheck for this concert entitled "Wiltshire pays tribute to our armed forces." It includes an interview with Hayley and Raven and I'm afraid I walk through the background but I swear it wasn't deliberate !! Lucky the TV guy gave me his card or I wouldn't have remembered the web address !! i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif

[Richard]

Thanks Jeff!

The video is here: www.vnsouth.tv/

Richard

[Martin]

An excellent "behind the scenes" video of what Jeff and I witnessed.

Martin

[Jillian]

I found the videos on that website a bit hard to watch and just in case it goes missing, I uploaded the report to You Tube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAyEbS5RD9A

[graemek]

Oct 29, 2009 11:05:01 GMT Jillian said:

I found the videos on that website a bit hard to watch and just in case it goes missing, I uploaded the report to You Tube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAyEbS5RD9A

Yes Jillian, well done !! Was very stumbling for me too.

I also captured it as an .flv but was going to put it on mediafire today. Plays perfectly by itself off the hard drive.

Graeme
PS your youtube plays spot on too...thank you.

[martindn]

Thanks for that Jillian. Makes downloading it much easier!

Martin