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10 Jan 07 - 09:31 AM (#1932286) Subject: The Folk Voice - BBC Radio4 -16Jan From: John Routledge At 9.30am GMT Tuesday 16 Jan there is a 15 min piece on the voice in Folk Song. It will look at voice specifically. It is the second programme in a series of five the first being the Jazz Voice which can be heard on BBBC Radio 4 archive. It was broadcast yesterday (9thJan) at 9.30am titled "The Singer not the Song" Just listened to it again. Great stuff worth 15 mins of anybodies time |
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10 Jan 07 - 11:24 AM (#1932385) Subject: RE: The Folk Voice - BBC Radio4 -16Jan From: sian, west wales I heard a bit of the first one and am looking forward to the second. Blurb: The Folk Voice Tuesday 16 January 2007 9:30-9:45 (Radio 4 FM) What defines an unforgettable voice, and is a great voice born or made? In this series we will not only hear and analyse some of the best voices across the last century, but also inform about music and the context in which they are singing. We consider the qualities essential to sing traditional English folk songs. In a genre where storytelling ability is paramount, is having a beautiful voice a burden or a blessing? If it were not for the work of a handful of collectors in the early part of the 20th Century travelling around the country, painstakingly recording the music of the working class, many of the songs which had been orally handed down from generation to generation for hundred of years would have been lost. Norma Waterson and Martin Carthy, who have been leading figures in the folk revival since the 1960s, discuss the artistry of the folk singer. sian |
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10 Jan 07 - 11:44 AM (#1932406) Subject: RE: The Folk Voice - BBC Radio4 -16Jan From: GUEST,Shimrod The first programme, on jazz singers, was excellent (why only 15 minutes, though? It should have been an hour at least!). I will be fascinated to hear the folk singers prog., although, it has to be said, that I'm not holding my breath. The BBC usually display appalling prejudice and ignorance when it comes to trad. song. Of course, MC and NW are neither prejudiced nor ignorant but it will be interesting to see how much they have allowed themselves to be 'nobbled' by the folk hating beeb. |
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10 Jan 07 - 10:54 PM (#1932859) Subject: RE: The Folk Voice - BBC Radio4 -16Jan From: JohnB Oh I see a warning, yes it says the 16th of January and that has not happened yet. Yes That's why the Jazz programme is still on the Listen again bit. Thanks for the Heads Up, JohnB feeling slightly more stupid than normal. |
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11 Jan 07 - 12:09 PM (#1933416) Subject: RE: The Folk Voice - BBC Radio4 -16Jan From: GUEST high-pitched nasal whining |
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11 Jan 07 - 12:18 PM (#1933425) Subject: RE: The Folk Voice - BBC Radio4 -16Jan From: GUEST The braying of drunken farmhands. |