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Christmas Songs.
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: loneleeb3 on January 02, 2009, 08:51:18 pm ---Thats just incredible!
I can't believe that booming voice comes from that skinny boy! LOL
It's truly beautiful.
The trumpet work is awesome as well.
I love how the trumpet can sound all gritty and bluesy in one genre the so pure like in this selection.
Thanks for sharing that.
If you did post it before it was worth a second listen! ;D
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You're welcome! Great voice, no?
Not such a 'skinny boy,' though, is he? ;D
And he's 6 foot five. :o
Here's Teddy Tahu Rhodes as
Don Giovanni at Opera Australia.
http://parterre.com/2007/11/do-you-come-from-land-down-under.html
and as Stanley in 'A Streetcar Named Desire'
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/31/1992426.htm
Quel hunk!
Teddy Tahu Rhodes
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Tahu_Rhodes
Aloysius J. Gleek:
Ok, it isn't Christmas music per se--
(--but Teddy is quite the angel on the (big )Christmas tree, hmmm?)
Woof!
Teddy Tahu Rhodes sings Mozart's Non piu andrai
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0x4nHr-t4U[/youtube]
(2:21)
Or if YouTube won't let you watch it embedded, click:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0x4nHr-t4U
Aloysius J. Gleek:
More Teddy:
Merry Christmas, everybody!
As Don Giovanni to Jud Arthur's
Commendatore at Opera Australia, 2007
With Leanne Kenneally as Count and Countess Almaviva
in Opera Australia's 2006 Nozze di Figaro
Teddy Tahu Rhodes in New York's SoHo, 2008 (at aged 41).
http://www.metoperafamily.org/operanews/issue/article.aspx?id=4912&issueID=322
Too Darn Hot
Teddy Tahu Rhodes, the buff baritone who sings the title role in Santa Fe's Billy Budd this summer, tells BARRY SINGER why he’s tired of being promoted as Teddy Bare.
June 2008, vol 72, no. 12
(....)
"Honestly, it happened just by default that I became an opera singer," he says over coffee after the rehearsal. He is a New Zealander through and through, with the aw-shucks heartiness of a true Kiwi bloke. Yet there is watchfulness underlying the easy nature, and one senses something sweetly tremulous about Teddy Tahu Rhodes.
(....)
The choir of a Christchurch, New Zealand boys' school was the first place Teddy Tahu Rhodes sang. There was no singing in his family at all, he insists, and no early opera exposure whatsoever. Rhodes was born to a British mother and a New Zealand father. (The Maori word "Tahu" — meaning "to set on fire" — was attached to the family name "when they first arrived.") Rhodes's parents divorced when he was two. The son barely knew the father, who died before Rhodes was out of his teens.
(....)
Rhodes wound up going on three times during Dead Man Walking's legendary San Francisco run. The response was extraordinary. "I received interest from virtually every opera company in America after that. I was invited back to San Francisco immediately. I signed to sing at Houston Grand Opera, where Patrick Summers is the music director. I've since done The Little Prince, Manon Lescaut, Figaro and Jake Heggie's The End of the Affair there, which Jake says he wrote with me in mind. I sang at Dallas Opera, at Cincinnati, Philadelphia, and at Washington Opera in D.C. I also got lots of work in Europe, though not in London, where I've only sung with the London Philharmonic. I guess they don't like me in London. I have sung with the Scottish and the Welsh National Operas, at Munich, Paris, Hamburg, Leipzig."
Ellemeno:
I went looking for "For Unto Us a Child is Born" from The Messiah, because not only do I love the tune, but the vocabulary is so uplifting, and thesaurus-y. I found this amazing piece on YouTube. Made in 1966(!) by a coupla film students. I wish the audio was clearer, but the images!
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9morqKUH0Sw[/youtube]
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on January 03, 2009, 12:27:54 am ---I went looking for "For Unto Us a Child is Born" from The Messiah, because not only do I love the tune, but the vocabulary is so uplifting, and thesaurus-y. I found this amazing piece on YouTube. Made in 1966(!) by a coupla film students. I wish the audio was clearer, but the images!
Unto Us A Child Is Born (4:52)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9morqKUH0Sw[/youtube]
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This is a USC film school student film made by Bill Morgan and Jerry Strawbridge in 1966. It shows pictures of childhood animated to the music "Unto Us A Child is Born" from Handel 's "Messiah."
This technique of animating still photographs is called "kinestasis" (or "kine" for short), a word which means moving (kine) stills (stasis).
It was made on Jerry Strawbridge's homemade animation stand. For me (Bill Morgan) it was a dream come true as I had long dreamed of combining photographs with classical music.
billym99
Joined: March 07, 2006
Other examples of my kinestasis works can be see at:
http://theawaremind.com/videos/
For unto us a Child is born,
unto us a Son is given,
and the government shall be upon His shoulder;
and his name shall be called
Wonderful,
Counsellor,
the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father,
the Prince of Peace.
(Isaiah 9:6)
Gorgeous! Thanks, Elle!
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