New series started on R4. The first is an absolute classic - Waterloo Sunset. What a song. What an amazing song. Sheer beauty and genius. Good program too - worth listening to if you like analysis and stories around the songs.
This song makes me feel sad it's not a very happy song! It's a bit depressing. Can we have a happy song? I like happy songs
Poking around on Youtube in the early hours today,looking at hinges, & how to forge Stag hinges, & it came up with Hinge & Bracket, saw them several times live many years ago, brought back memories, but comedy aside, few peeps realise how good Hilda was as a mezzo-soprano, up there with the best.
OK, Patrick Fyffe aka Hilda Bracket, he had a voice classed as Mezzo-soprano range,so he was then a male contra tenor with a vocal range equal to a female mezzo-soprano, which would put many female mezzo-soprano to shame, NOW is that clearer for you... And it's hard to belive that Alessandro Moreschi the last castrato died in 1922.