Re: Songs about weather :))

a l l y wrote:
"Alfred Packer" <AlfredPacker@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1141084412_8303@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The Traveller wrote:
Blow the wind southerly, southerly, southerly.

I remeber being subjected to that dirge by Joan Sutherland at school, what a miserable sound. Put me off classical music for decades.

My dad liked the famous version by Kathleen Ferrier. Don't think I've heard JS's one. The song's ok, but the stylised way of singing it is a bit offputting. I was always puzzled by the line that went, "They told me last night there were sheep in the oven.."

ally


And the bark of her true love was, we hope, worse than his bite.

My Grandma was a contralto, too, and I remember that it was Kathleen Ferrier that Grandma would try to imitate. I think Joan Sutherland was a bit too young to inspire Grandma. I think she's still alive and kicking down under.

Did you know that her husband bet her a shilling that she would not sing in the 1937 Carlisle Music Festival? She entered for piano and singing and won both.


Jp
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  • Re: Songs about weather :))
    ... I remeber being subjected to that dirge by Joan Sutherland at school, ... but the stylised way of singing it is a bit offputting. ... My Grandma was a contralto, too, and I remember that it was Kathleen Ferrier that Grandma would try to imitate. ...
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  • Re: Songs about weather :))
    ... I remeber being subjected to that dirge by Joan Sutherland at school, ... what a miserable sound. ... My dad liked the famous version by Kathleen Ferrier. ... My Grandma was a contralto, too, and I remember that it was Kathleen ...
    (uk.local.cumbria)