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Post by Dave on Mar 25, 2006 19:51:39 GMT
Hayley will be singing "Live" on BBC Radio 2 on her day off between two Il Divo concerts (Brighton & Nottingham).  [/i][/quote] Dave |
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Post by postscript on Mar 26, 2006 9:58:34 GMT
Thanks, Dave, for the super tip-off on Friday 31st March BC2 7:30pm. I'm tempted to try the theatre but I dont know if the Friday Night auience is an invited one.
Peter
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Post by Richard on Mar 26, 2006 14:01:44 GMT
Hello Peter!  As far as I know, the free tickets for 'Friday Night is Music Night' are only available from the BBC. They are allocated weeks in advance, so it is highly unlikely that you will be able to get one for this Friday's show.  You can listen to the show on the Internet live or at any time during the following week via this link (Real Player required):- www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/fridaynight/Richard  |
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Post by postscript on Mar 27, 2006 5:19:31 GMT
Hello Peter! As far as I know, the free tickets for 'Friday Night is Music Night' are only available from the BBC. They are allocated weeks in advance, so it is highly unlikely that you will be able to get one for this Friday's show. You can listen to the show on the Internet live or at any time during the following week via this link (Real Player required):- www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/fridaynight/Richard I thought that was the situaition but thanks for the reminder of the internet possibility. Trouble is I haven't worked out how I can record that but I have a tape way of doing it through the old steam wireless system! Peter |
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Post by Richard on Mar 27, 2006 7:49:05 GMT
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Post by gareth on Mar 31, 2006 9:00:55 GMT
Hi All,
I intend to record the programme tonight via the Internet broadcast. That usually results in a sound quality of about 40 kbps which is still reasonably good.
Gerrit
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Post by Dave on Mar 31, 2006 12:02:42 GMT
Hi All, I intend to record the programme tonight via the Internet broadcast. That usually results in a sound quality of about 40 kbps which is still reasonably good. Gerrit Hi Gerrit, great news! I shall be recording it from digital satellite radio (Radio 2 is 192 kbps I believe) and uncompressed from FM radio as backup. The more backup, the better Cheers, Dave |
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Post by postscript on Mar 31, 2006 16:46:33 GMT
Hi folks! Dozy here!
Well, Dozy has a slight excuse, earlier in the week he went down with an acute allergic reaction so he wasn't functioning sufficiently well as to think he would be all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed by Friday.
The fact is that today, Friday, he is all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and is hopping mad at himself wishing he had been 'with it' at the beginning of the week.
So, for clarification for any future occasion, Richard and Dave at least and other contributors to this thread who might have considered visiting Hayley tonight (at the Pentland theatre, of course!) Friday Night is Music Night tickets do not become available until the Monday immediately preceding. So excessive advance booking is not possible. I am told the perennial number is 0208 576 1227. It is possible to be an email recipient of Friday Night's shows etc.
In other words, had I been on the phone first thing Monday morning I might now be outside the Pentland theatre instead of at home!
The Pentland theatre would appear to be a lovely little theatre of great character with modern adaptability. That is pure assumption since it seats only 400 but is part of a theatrical complex of studio and other experimental facilities.
It strikes me tonight's performance is going to be a lovely evening for both Hayley and the audience. IF ANYONE DOES GO, please tell us all about it (the theatre and ambiance of course). The rest of us will be listening/recording.
It would seem a nightmare to get to, being stuck on an island defined by the A598, A1000 and A1003!
However, West Finchley (nearest?) or Woodside Park tube stations would seem comparatively easy walking distances. That leads me to ponder. As I write, just after 5:00pm I would say Hayley was there this pm for rehearsal, then a sandwich break, about now, and dressing room time. So, two dresses to allow an interval change? Short programme so probably not. But dress doesn't have to travel with her for the pm band call. So, could Hayley have taken the tube and dress and helper follow on later by taxi? She's economically minded, so would she have used a chauffeured car from her flat? I suspect not.
The idea of possibly bumping into Hayley on the tube is an exciting prospect. I must remember to keep my eyes open in future when I'm in London. I might reduce my otherwise excellent acquaintance with street lamps that way! Is it not extraordinary the way you are on a crowded London street, with people coming towards you and you sense a space where people aren't and you step into it, only to find the reason other people aren't there is because a lamp post is!
Oh, by the way, for all the digital recording freaks. I'm in a digital black spot and need to fork out £200 or so for an aerial plus all new equipment. Tonight, at least, I shall be making do with an old-fashioned thing called fm and a funny little black box which threads a strip of magnetic tape from one reel to another in between which something happens. Fascinating. I wonder if the Science Museum have anything like it?
Oh all right. I confess. I'm envious! Everyone else seems so well organised and kitted out!
Peter
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Post by gareth on Mar 31, 2006 18:16:24 GMT
Here is tonight's programme - details of the songs to be sung by Hayley and Amici are shrouded in mystery .... Source: www.bbc.co.uk/orchestras/concertorchestra/concert_diary/fnimn_20060331.shtmlGerrit
Friday Night is Music Night - 31 March 2006 ARTS DEPOT LIVE Conductor Richard Balcombe Special Guests Hayley Westenra and Amici Forever Presenter Brian Kay Part One Friday Night is Music Night Williams La Danza Rossini (arr Torch) You Only Live Twice Barry (arr Nic Raine) Song tbc Hayley Westenra Overture: The Mikado Sullivan Song tbc Amici Forever Stardust Hoagy Carmichael (arr Langford) Hayley Westenra Ballsirenen on themes from The Merry Widow Lehar Part Two La Tregenda Puccini Amici Forever Nocturne Borodin arr Sargeant Song tbc Hayley Westenra London Transport Suite 1) Hansom Cab 2) Rosie the Red Omnibus 3) 5.52 from Victorloo Torch Song tbc Amici Forever Around the World in 80 Days Young (arr Fones) Song tbc Hayley Westenra Overture: Mack and Mabel Herman (arr Francis) Friday Night is Music Night Williams |
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Post by postscript on Mar 31, 2006 18:55:31 GMT
Hi everyone and am I kicking myself for not having been with it at the beginning of the week and got tickets to be there. Are any of us there? When will they report? A mystery indeed right until the last! Was she leaving the choice to the last possible moment to ensure she was really up to it? And what was that first song? It is the song I have always waited for her to sing, wanted her to sing, the operatic song that I thought was so right for her. O mio babbino caro from Puccini's Gianni Schicci So right for that gorgeous, 'oh my father please' entreaty, not, I'm sure that she ever had cause to make that plea in real life!!! The aria takes me back to my early almost pre-teens when we had one of those voices that never had the opportiunity to make the big time, one Shaké Biggs, who really poured her heart out in the Berkhamsted Civic Centre as one of the acts in the local Operatic Society's Music Hall Nights. When Sarah Brightman, yes, Sarah Brightman is originally a Berkhamsted girl, did some, but not many amateur performances, I think she also sung that aria To now hear Hayley sing it, who is both the right character age although still a young singing age gives me several performances in one. My first hearing of it by an older woman (to me) Shaké; then the young Sarah Brighman, I'm sure but I'm imagining Brightman's voice in the role; and now the reality of Hayley. This was a song to hear in the theatre and not through amplification, cerainly not my basic fm. She managed it well. Crystal clear well sustained high register notes of absolute clarity. But was there a hint, not of a brittle hardness but perhap a colder quality to her usual mellifluousness? A simple song which is deceptive in its seeming ease. It is not an easy song to deliver well and in her rendition Hayley rendered herself and the song unquestioned justice, but I hesitate from a 'plus' or 'star' to the A, ONLY because I have a feeling this song is about to enter her regular repertoire and I think she has more to give to it both in he colour of the highest notes but also in the emotion. Hayley, I'm glad you delivered it. I loved it. I think, if you wish, you can make that as much yours as you made Pokarekare Ana. And then, 'The Water Is Wide'. A gentle intro from the piano then strings and the full orchestra quietly builds behind her. We have debated this much on this site recently so i will add no further comment but that this was pure Hayley. As also Handel's Rinaldo. This was the absolute Hayley. The gentle, lingering, sustaining Hayley of absolute consistency from start to finish. Then she concluded her part, the penultimate piece of the evening, most appropriately with Caccini's Ave Maria. We all know it. We know how well she can sing and that is how she sang it. A triumphant night for you Hayley. How nice to be introduced by someone who ALMOST said you'd 'popped down the road from your flat'. Folks, she's back 'home'. She's back with us as marvelous as she was when I last saw her at Huddersfield. But there's more. She's firmly established in the repertoirs we know her for but still pushing out the boundaries. In O mio babbino caro from Puccini's Gianni Schicci she told us, there is stkill more challenging stuff to come and she's gaining confidence in contin uing to challenge herself. Well done Hayley! XXX Peter, finally modified or text comleted 21:24. Performance ended 21:15.!!!!  |
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Post by Andrew on Mar 31, 2006 19:32:32 GMT
Hi Peter, And what was that comment after 'O mio babbino caro' ? "With the voice to make any father cry"... I hope Gerald was ready! Andrew  |
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Post by Andrew on Mar 31, 2006 20:07:39 GMT
Hi All, What a wonderful rendition of Caccini's version of 'Ave Maria' ...Hayley's voice had a beautiful resonance. The strings sounded like a cascading waterfall... That was the perfect piece to finish with Hayley! Andrew |
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Post by postscript on Mar 31, 2006 20:08:38 GMT
Hi Andrew.
Keeping a wary eye out to see how quickly us London lot can get our act together and put up our responses?!
May be I'm setting up a new challenge?
Peter
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Post by roger on Mar 31, 2006 20:22:41 GMT
Hi folks, It seems that only two of Hayley's songs have so far been named. The four, in order, were: O Mio Babbino Caro The Water Is Wide Lascio Ch'io Pianga Ave Maria (Cacchini) It will be interesting to see if her chart position is boosted by the national (and international?) airplay. Roger |
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Post by gareth on Mar 31, 2006 20:58:12 GMT
Hi All, I have an mp3 file ready of tonight's concert - it's just over half an hour long, and includes all of the guests's songs, so it also includes the three Amici Forever songs. The file is about 11 MB. www.hayley-westenra-international.net/hwi/clips/zo06/fridaynightmusicnight310306.mp3Amici Forever sang A song to the theme of Rachmaninov's Second Piano concerto (title ?) Aranjuez Nellie Fantasia Quite good sound quality considering it was recorded from the Internet broadcast! Gerrit |
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