The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #169915   Message #4110205
Posted By: Jack Campin
14-Jun-21 - 08:31 PM
Thread Name: folk song art song
Subject: RE: folk song art song
This is rather like the guy who was so shocked by his neighbour appearing naked at her window that he fell off the stepladder and broke his binoculars.

Classical-style folksong treatments are a thing of the past. They served a purpose, of freeing up a space for other takes on traditional material, but if you want to hear Peter Pears, Fyodor Shalyapin, Kathleen Ferrier, Peter Dawson, John McCormack or the like, you have to put in some effort to find them. They're not on the PA at the supermarket.