A straw poll

I have been loading the contents of my CD library into iTunes, semi-successfully. Still many discs left to go.

The one that has come up just now for importing is “Florence Foster Jenkins: The Glory (????) of the Human Voice”. Those of you who do not know who Jenkins was, the Wikipedia article on Jenkins should give some background.

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4 Responses to “A straw poll”

  1. dale_in_queens says:
    29/12/2008 at 01:11 pm

    But one song only, for curiosity’s sake.

  2. spwebdesign says:
    29/12/2008 at 03:16 pm

    This is the sort of poll that screams for checkboxes instead of radio buttons, or at least an “All of the above” option!

  3. jwg says:
    29/12/2008 at 04:27 pm

    I lipsynched in the variety show at dance camp to her Queen of the Night. It’s on my iPod of course.

    We saw Souvenir a couple of years ago in NYC, a delightful play about her career.

  4. trawnapanda says:
    29/12/2008 at 05:29 pm

    i’ve heard many Queens of the Night from Kiri te Kanawa to Beverley Sills, but FFJ owns that aria.

    It’s fun to tease people who haven’t heard of her – you gush about how you’ve just discovered this wonderful singer from 70yr ago, you’ve got the CD, you have to listen – apologising the while for poor quality, coz it’s transcribed from a 78.

    then you play it for them, keeping a straight face, and watch THEM try to keep a straight face, since they think you think this caterwauling is good music.