Just In Case You Think That All Of '...Got Talent' Is Rubbish...

Wow! I love opera and those youngsters brought tears to my eyes! Thanks Shiney.

 

I suppose if they only allowed the good ones to take part it would be a very short programme.

 

They were all pretty good, but one or two had pitch issues in places and some others with long tones.

This is my all time favourite, from these sort of shows, particularly as she was only eleven at the time. Could bring a tear to your eye, if you've not seen it before.



Mind you, things have changed.

In 1942 Sarah Vaughan, at eighteen, sang this at a contest at the Apollo in New York.
She won, her prize was $10 and a week's engagement.

The rest is history.

 

When it first came on the tv that is why i strated to watch it, to see the worst one's but now i don't watch it at all now

 

What is not so well known was that she was an accomplished jazz pianist and had classical music tuition as a child. She was also known amongst musicians as "Miss Perfect Pitch" for her singing ability.




I mentioned the inability of some contemporary singers to hold "long tones."
This is something that brass and reed instrumentalists have to master.

Those who can also sing, demonstrate that ability.

These girls from the Catalonian St Andreu Jazz Orchestra, always impress me with their mastery of their instruments as well as being able to sing.

from left to right.

Any saxophone you like.
Alto/soprano sax & trumpet.
Double bass
Trombone (she was fifteen at the time, the rest were around twenty)

 

Here's more.

They start young

Alba Armangou at the age of nine



But grow up quick

At fourteen.



The most well known and accomplished

Andrea Motis at sixteen.



Moody's Mood, is a well known jazz song based on the chord structure of "I'm in the Mood for Love," but the vocal is a copy of James Moody's saxophone solo, from back in the fifties. Very hard to sing. she's about nineteen here.




On alto sax at eighteen

 

Then there's Eva Fernandez, from the same college, she's twenty-one.





Now branching out with her own group