Celia, F-D group, Re: Your entreaty to convert. I tried to do that already, unsuccessfully. I already have a Yahoo ID and PW, but when I attampted to access...
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Jon Alan Conrad
conrad@...
Feb 1, 2001 6:41 pm
... It told me that too, till I clicked on the "convert your egroups" link. Then it learned about my subscription status. Jon ... Jon Alan Conrad Department of...
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Charles H. Sampson
csampson@...
Feb 4, 2001 6:46 am
How big was DFD's voice? I never had a chance to hear him in a live performance so I know him only from recordings. I've been running through my Hyperion...
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WWINTERFELDT@...
Feb 4, 2001 9:39 pm
Mr. Charles Sampson wrote and asked about the size of DFD's voice. I can respond having heard him many times in NY and twice in Europe, that his sound was very...
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Scott Belyea
sbelyea1525@...
Feb 5, 2001 12:07 am
... From: WWINTERFELDT@... Has anyone listened to the entire DG box of 21 CD's. That would make a good topic to disuss. Two to go ... ... Scott [Non-text...
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Celia A. Sgroi
sgroi@...
Feb 5, 2001 4:37 pm
Dear Charles and List, ... This is a recurring question, and I wish I could give you a definitive answer, but I can't. From my live recital experiences of DFD,...
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Scott Belyea
sbelyea1525@...
Feb 5, 2001 5:15 pm
I never heard DFD live, and so have no direct observations. However, my brother-in-law (a trained baritone, paid church choir soloist and all of that) saw him...
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NBPalmer1@...
Feb 5, 2001 5:41 pm
In a message dated 05/02/2001 4:40:26 PM GMT Standard Time, sgroi@... ... Well, I'm not Bobolink but I certainly heard him sing Barak once, in Munich. I...
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Celia A. Sgroi
sgroi@...
Feb 5, 2001 6:34 pm
... This is a good point, Nick. At least, his stage presence made a great deal of difference in a space like Carnegie Hall, where you could not only hear him...
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Nick Perovich
perovich@...
Feb 5, 2001 6:54 pm
... and all of that) saw him at Carnegie more than a few years ago. His comment was that the question of size of voice didn't really occur to him at the time...
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Gianfranco Mormino
gimormi@...
Feb 5, 2001 11:08 pm
I saw in EMI's netpage that they are going to reissue Puccini's highlights in german (Madame Butterfly and La Bohème) and Nicolai's Die lustigen Weiber von...
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monika.wolf@...
Feb 5, 2001 11:22 pm
That's really great! But we are also waiting for the highlights Gounod's 'Margarete' ("Faust"). Monika ... From: "Gianfranco Mormino" <gimormi@...> To: "d...
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Gianfranco Mormino
gimormi@...
Feb 6, 2001 2:51 pm
Is Margarethe really being reissued? By EMI? I loved that recording as well as the higlights from Verdi's Don Carlos, with almost the same singers. By the...
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Scott Belyea
sbelyea1525@...
Feb 6, 2001 3:21 pm
There is a reference in the notes to the 2 Orfeo "Operatic Scenes" CD's referring to the German-language "Falstaff"; excerpts ... "Although Fischer-Dieskau was...
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igor_28@...
Feb 7, 2001 1:54 am
Hello, I'm new over here. I was really shocked when I saw a photo of Dieskau smoking! Is he really a smoker? Then the voice! Paul...
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Celia A. Sgroi
sgroi@...
Feb 7, 2001 2:02 am
Hello Paul, Welcome to Fischer-DieskauList, ... By his own admission, he was a heavy smoker for many years. He stopped smoking in the early 1980's, if I recall...
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igor_28@...
Feb 7, 2001 2:14 am
Thanks for the quick reply! What about the breathing? Maybe Dieskau would have been a tenor without the cigarette! Any other great singers who smoke? Paul...
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Jon Alan Conrad
conrad@...
Feb 7, 2001 2:40 am
... You'd be shocked! A *lot* of European singers (and not just them, but it does seem to be more prevalent) smoke. For that matter, 20 years ago smoking was...
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Philip Peters
philip@...
Feb 7, 2001 3:11 am
... The legendary Nina Koshetz was a notorious chain smoker and booze drinker.... Does anyone know where to find her 1923 recording of, among other songs, ...
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WWINTERFELDT@...
Feb 7, 2001 6:21 am
Dear List, Regarding Fischer-Dieskau's smoking, I remember reading in an interview, that he said he gave up cigarette smoking in 1975. Kenneth Whitton in his...
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Celia A. Sgroi
sgroi@...
Feb 7, 2001 11:20 am
... I have observed both Peter Schreier and Olaf Baer smoking. And Matthias Goerne smokes. Celia Celia A. Sgroi State University of New York College at Oswego ...
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Celia A. Sgroi
sgroi@...
Feb 7, 2001 11:25 am
... I certainly hope EMI sees fit to release DFD/de los Angeles duet CD in Europe and North America. It is one of my all-time favorite recordings. And then...
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bar1@...
Feb 7, 2001 12:30 pm
Dear Celia and list, Don't scare me here but I thought the entire de los Angeles/FD album was included in the Fabulous de los Angeles. I even have the old LP...
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Celia A. Sgroi
sgroi@...
Feb 7, 2001 3:25 pm
Dear Barney & List ... I don't know. I have never bought the recording because I didn't want 4 CDs worth of Victoria de los Angeles and hoped it would...
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monika.wolf@...
Feb 7, 2001 5:05 pm
Dear Barney & List Barney is right, the de los Angeles/FD album was included completely in the 'Fabulous de los Angeles'. Monika Kiesweg 4 D-85737 Ismaning ...
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Dre de Man
dredeman@...
Feb 8, 2001 11:09 am
Dear DFD-listers, at another list vocalist-temporary@yahoogroups.com we are currently discussing the consequnces of weight loss on singing. I remember a...
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Celia A. Sgroi
sgroi@...
Feb 8, 2001 2:29 pm
... This seems to be a perennial topic where matters vocal are discussed . . . ... Being something of a connoisseur of FiDi-Fotos (-:, the progression goes ...
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Celia A. Sgroi
sgroi@...
Feb 8, 2001 6:01 pm
... A [very] belated response to this. I have exactly the same problem. I find it almost impossible to talk about DFD solely (or even primarily) in terms of...
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Scott Belyea
sbelyea1525@...
Feb 14, 2001 7:51 pm
... and I only have 12 of the 15 items listed! I just don't know how I'll be able to go out in public. I'm almost afraid to look at the other lists by the...
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Celia A. Sgroi
sgroi@...
Feb 14, 2001 8:03 pm
... Tsk! Tsk! You're going to have to go around with a paper bag on your head. ... Take everything on the Personage's lists with a grain of salt. You can only...
