Liz the Squeak sings Fauré

Subject: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: Micca
Date: 11 May 08 - 08:08 PM

Last night at St Alfeges church in Greenwich UK our own Liz the Squeak soloed the Pié Jesu in a stunning rendition of the Fauré Requiem presented by the Choir of which she is a member.The East London chorus gave a very sensitve and beautiful rendition of this wonderful piece of music. I know its not folk but it was one of our own singing before a paying audience and therefore worthy of an accolade and congratulations on a splendid performance.
Well done Liz

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 May 08 - 08:18 PM

Congratulations, Liz. Now a "professional". Any chance there is a recording of the event?
Mary

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 11 May 08 - 08:20 PM

Squeak, what a wonderful voice you must have! You've been keeping this under your hat. Congratulations, and I wish I could have been there.

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: Beer
Date: 11 May 08 - 08:23 PM

Good for you Liz. All the best for the future in the land of singing.
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: jacqui.c
Date: 11 May 08 - 08:36 PM

Well done Liz. I would love to hear a recording if available.

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 May 08 - 09:18 PM

Me, too, please?

Congratulations, LtS!

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: Dead Horse
Date: 11 May 08 - 10:31 PM

Liz can be heard "squeaking" on one of Les Barkers records, so I am told :-)

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: ranger1
Date: 11 May 08 - 10:54 PM

Congrats, Liz.

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: Ron Davies
Date: 11 May 08 - 11:11 PM

Wonderful, Liz! That's an unearthly piece, for sure. I've only been part of the chorus and even that is glorious.

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: My guru always said
Date: 12 May 08 - 03:19 AM

Fantastic, well done Liz. I'd have loved to hear it too, a beautiful piece and it sounds like you did it full justice!

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: GUEST,Sapper on TRU waiting off From Derby
Date: 12 May 08 - 03:26 AM

Lovely!!
Well done Liz!
Was Limpit chuffed with her mum? Or, like my bloody lot would be, embarrassed?

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: Megan L
Date: 12 May 08 - 03:27 AM

Glad it went weel lassie

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: Micca
Date: 12 May 08 - 03:37 AM

She did it very well indeed, but the Ratbag didnt warn me beforehand that she was the soloist, I had coffee with her on Saturday morning and it wasnt mentioned, just arrangements for me to travel to the venue with Manitas and Limpit!!

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 May 08 - 04:34 AM

I knew, nyah nyah nyah :p

G

As I have already said elsewhere, well done Liz.

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: maeve
Date: 12 May 08 - 05:12 AM

Wish I could have heard it, Liz. We're proud of you.

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: bfdk
Date: 12 May 08 - 05:24 AM

Well done, the lady!

Sounds like you managed to take them all by surprise, too :o)

Bente

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: fat B****rd
Date: 12 May 08 - 06:17 AM

Well done Liz.

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: Bugsy
Date: 12 May 08 - 06:41 AM

Whacko! Me deario!

CHeers


Bugsy

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: mouldy
Date: 12 May 08 - 06:58 AM

I wish I could sing! I'm jealous as anything. Well done, kid!

Andrea

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 12 May 08 - 10:49 AM

I'll be damned.

Congratulations, and if there is a recording, please let me know where to buy a copy ?

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 May 08 - 11:14 AM

Well, I posted a link to Lucia Popp singing this piece which was up on youtube, but my posting seems to have disappeared. I wasn't familiar with the piece. Even more impressed now that I have heard it. Well done, LtS!!

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 May 08 - 11:30 AM

*Blush*!!!

Thank you all for your kind comments, you'll have to take my word for it that I'm very pink and very touched. Thank you.

Ron - it's ironic you should say that - one of our tenors is called Ron Davies.

It was one of those performances that, once the first three notes were out, just sailed away with a life of its own. The venue is almost a cube, so had fantastic accoustics and I was accompanied by Edward Batting on the organ.

Thank you again.

Now taking bookings for weddings, funerals and Bar Mitzvahs!

LTS

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: manitas_at_work
Date: 12 May 08 - 11:50 AM

Is Pie Jesu popular at Bar Mitzvahs?

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: Alan Day
Date: 12 May 08 - 11:54 AM

Well done Liz
Do you do Masonic's?
Al

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 May 08 - 12:01 PM

How can I put this delicately Alan... I have sung in a Masonic 'cloakroom' - does that count?

(Incidentally, the Masonic Hall, Wareham, Dorset would win the Accoustic Bog Society prize hands down, it was fabulous! Lots of seats, lots of coat pegs and plenty of room. The beer was a bit thin though.)

LTS

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: Micca
Date: 12 May 08 - 12:05 PM

I dont know about Ma-sonics, She does Ultrasonics with the famous Squeak!!! the only sound heard when she stops is the thud of deaf bats running into things, like trees and buildings etc.!!!
but she sings right well.
It was the Organ accompaniment version, rather than orchestra, and I felt that this (more spartan) approach made the choral work shine that bit more clear and bright and it is THE most sensual piece of music (even if it is a requiem!!!)possibly ever written, right up there with Tristan and Isolde.

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: Morticia
Date: 12 May 08 - 12:57 PM

well done, Liz, wish I'd been there. We are going next week to hear it as it is one of my favouritest pieces of music, bet it won't be as good as you though.

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: Willa
Date: 12 May 08 - 02:21 PM

Can't quite rise to your heights, Liz, but the U3A choir to which I belong sang the Faure requiem at a charity concert a couple of weeks ago in a local church, with the organ accompaniment.

Beautiful music and a great event. We raised £450 towards a community centre.

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré Living?
From: Severn
Date: 12 May 08 - 02:43 PM

Far, eh? (as they say up North in Canada). An ocean away is much too Faure Way from the USA, but I would've liked to have heard it. You're too far out of my Aria Code.

In all Pie-eaty, do you have any of that Jesus Pie left, or are you saving it in the freezer for an Easter Service or the coming (again?) sequel to the Last Supper (entitled "Just Desserts"-a Pecan Divinity, maybe?)? Savior leftovers for the rest of us, if you could! Do you have a recipe to share for Jesus Crust? We only sing about "Methodist Pie" over here, so obviously, you have better methods over there.

"In The Sweet Bye And Bye We'll have Pies In Disguise When He Dies...."

Was it REALLY more sensuous than trysting with Isolde, Micca? (Sorry-that joke Isolde than I am!).

In God We Tryst? (So's THAT one!)

"Let's Tryst Again Like We Did Last Summer"? (Isolde and no wiser?)



....I'd better quit now, while I'm behind....

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 12 May 08 - 03:04 PM

Well done, Liz! I've only sung (alto) in the choruses but it's a lovely piece.

Kitty

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: maeve
Date: 12 May 08 - 04:59 PM

Great post, Severn!

I can hear Liz squeaking, um, laughing all the way over here in the State of Maine!

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 12 May 08 - 05:11 PM

Of course there is the Greek Version Pie Yassoo or the cowboy version Pie Lassoo - sorry...........

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: skarpi
Date: 12 May 08 - 05:53 PM

well Liz , like the highlanders said wee´ll doon

good for you Liz ,
ATB Skarpi and Gunna Iceland

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Furry
From: Severn
Date: 12 May 08 - 06:59 PM

As long as you keep the cow pies out of the cowboy version, Linda, we can still take it to church.

...But a lassoo always goes over pretty darn well over there in Your-Rope!

As they say Out West, "Thar's nothin' wrong with European, less'n European into the wind".

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Faur�
From:
Date: 12 May 08 - 07:04 PM

Lots of squeaks, Liz

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: Ref
Date: 12 May 08 - 08:09 PM

I'm envious. Being a baritone, I'm stuck with Libera Me. Hope you enjoyed it!

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: Sorcha
Date: 12 May 08 - 08:22 PM

bully.

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 12 May 08 - 08:29 PM

Lucia Popp:voz de angel

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 12 May 08 - 08:38 PM

I'd never heard of Pié Jesu, so also looked at a few other versions including the Sarah Brightman & boy soprano video from ALW's Requiem. I'd never heard of that either, so will be borrowing a copy of it from my local library.

sandra (uneducated, but I do own a copy of Britten's War Requiem)

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: Diva
Date: 13 May 08 - 02:38 AM

well done Liz I'll bet you did a smashing job. Its a fabulous piece of music and I've sung it when I was in the Roxburgh Singers....alto in the chourus.....

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 13 May 08 - 08:10 AM

One of the most beautiful arias ever, and I wish I coulda been there, too, Liz! Well squeaked!

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: Little Robyn
Date: 13 May 08 - 04:16 PM

Sandra, if you can find an early record of Aled Jones, AJ2, Pie Jesu, he sings both versions! And lots of other lovely songs too.
I have it in my car and he sings all the way to work every day!
Robyn

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: mouldy
Date: 14 May 08 - 05:05 AM

Faure's requiem was one of my mum's favourites. I hope she was there in spirit - literally!

Andrea
who hasn't worked out how to do accents on a laptop keyboard yet)

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: Joybell
Date: 14 May 08 - 05:54 AM

Well done, Liz and thank you Micca for telling us.
Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: GUEST,JohnB
Date: 14 May 08 - 03:48 PM

Well done there, hope you didn't "Req" anything.
I too have done the chorussy bit's but my voice is to "folky" (OK nasally) for a solo. We also wear black tux's not brown ones so that would be a problem too.
JohnB

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: CET
Date: 14 May 08 - 04:14 PM

Congratulations from me, too, Liz.

Edmund

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: open mike
Date: 14 May 08 - 09:31 PM

glad to hear about you, wish i could hear you.

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: Flash Company
Date: 15 May 08 - 10:05 AM

Liz, this is wonderful, I knew of your choral work from earlier postings, but didn't realise you were a star!
When does the world tour start?

Brian Q

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 16 May 08 - 09:34 AM

...and from me a chorus of "Faure's a jolly good fellow..."

RtS
(Running away ducking to avoid missiles)

Subject: RE: Liz the Squeak sings Fauré
From: Micca
Date: 16 May 08 - 09:47 AM

surely Roger "ducking to avoid" Piés....