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Recidiva said:
Florence Foster Jenkins (July 19, 1868 – November 26, 1944) was an American socialite and amateur operatic soprano, who was known and ridiculed for her lack of rhythm, pitch, and tone; her aberrant pronunciation; and her generally poor singing ability

Oh, honey...
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There are a number of people who are quite complimentary of her pianist, for his amazing ability to keep up with her key changes etc.


I may need to call paramedics, I'm gasping for breath.
 
Balladeer08 said:
There are a number of people who are quite complimentary of her pianist, for his amazing ability to keep up with her key changes etc.


I may need to call paramedics, I'm gasping for breath.
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There are the bad ballet troupes who do bad ballet, and then there's PDQ Bach that does bad orchestration.

But this is what happens when you have too much money and an interest in fame and there is no auto tune.
 
Recidiva said:
There are the bad ballet troupes who do bad ballet, and then there's PDQ Bach that does bad orchestration.

But this is what happens when you have too much money and an interest in fame and there is no auto tune.
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PDQ Bach was intentional and tongue in cheek. The Quodlibets were like a test of your musical knowledge across different genres, as well as being hysterical. Professor Peter Schickele was an accomplished musician and a strange kind of genius, IMHO.

Florence was just a recurring train wreck.
 
Balladeer08 said:
PDQ Bach was intentional and tongue in cheek. The Quodlibets were like a test of your musical knowledge across different genres, as well as being hysterical. Professor Peter Schickele was an accomplished musician and a strange kind of genius, IMHO.

Florence was just a recurring train wreck.
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I know, but they ALL made me giggle.
 
The Portsmouth Sinfonia followed in Florence Foster Jenkins footsteps:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asYwFnm6X7I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmqBzFcHQis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth_Sinfonia

The Sinfonia had an unusual entrance requirement, in that players had to either be non-musicians, or if a musician, play an instrument that was entirely new to them. Among the founding members was one of their teachers, English composer Gavin Bryars. The orchestra started as a one-off, tongue-in-cheek performance art ensemble but became a cultural phenomenon over the following ten years, with concerts, record albums, a film and a hit single. They last performed publicly in 1979.

PS. Florence Foster Jenkins' singing might have been appalling but she raised large sums of money for charities.
 
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oggbashan said:
The Portsmouth Sinfonia followed in Florence Foster Jenkins footsteps:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asYwFnm6X7I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmqBzFcHQis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth_Sinfonia

The Sinfonia had an unusual entrance requirement, in that players had to either be non-musicians, or if a musician, play an instrument that was entirely new to them. Among the founding members was one of their teachers, English composer Gavin Bryars. The orchestra started as a one-off, tongue-in-cheek performance art ensemble but became a cultural phenomenon over the following ten years, with concerts, record albums, a film and a hit single. They last performed publicly in 1979.

PS. Florence Foster Jenkins' singing might have been appalling but she raised large sums of money for charities.
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This is spreading! We should notify the Center for Disease Control and WHO!!!
 
More about Florence Foster Jenkins...

Because of her inability to hear combined with her life-long need to perform which began when she was seven, Jenkins was firmly convinced of her talent. She compared herself favorably to the renowned sopranos Frieda Hempel and Luisa Tetrazzini, and dismissed the abundant audience laughter during her performances as "hoodlums ... planted by her rivals." She was aware of her critics, but never let them stand in her way: "People may say I can't sing," she said, "but no one can ever say I didn't sing."


Her recitals featured a mixture of the standard operatic repertoire by Mozart, Verdi, and Johann Strauss (all well beyond her technical ability); lieder by Brahms; Valverde's "Clavelitos" ("Little Carnations" – a favorite encore), and songs composed by herself or accompanist Cosmé McMoon.

Jenkins often wore elaborate costumes that she designed for herself, sometimes appearing in wings and tinsel, and, for "Clavelitos", throwing flowers into the audience from a basket (apparently on one occasion, she hurled the basket as well) while fluttering a fan and sporting more flowers in her hair. After at least one "Clavelitos" performance the audience demanded that she sing it again, compelling McMoon to collect the flowers from the audience prior to repeating the number.

Once, while riding in a taxi, it collided with another car and Jenkins let out a scream. She then discovered that she could sing "a higher F than ever before", and sent the cab driver a box of expensive cigars.
 
oggbashan said:
Because of her inability to hear combined with her life-long need to perform which began when she was seven, Jenkins was firmly convinced of her talent. She compared herself favorably to the renowned sopranos Frieda Hempel and Luisa Tetrazzini, and dismissed the abundant audience laughter during her performances as "hoodlums ... planted by her rivals." She was aware of her critics, but never let them stand in her way: "People may say I can't sing," she said, "but no one can ever say I didn't sing."


Her recitals featured a mixture of the standard operatic repertoire by Mozart, Verdi, and Johann Strauss (all well beyond her technical ability); lieder by Brahms; Valverde's "Clavelitos" ("Little Carnations" – a favorite encore), and songs composed by herself or accompanist Cosmé McMoon.

Jenkins often wore elaborate costumes that she designed for herself, sometimes appearing in wings and tinsel, and, for "Clavelitos", throwing flowers into the audience from a basket (apparently on one occasion, she hurled the basket as well) while fluttering a fan and sporting more flowers in her hair. After at least one "Clavelitos" performance the audience demanded that she sing it again, compelling McMoon to collect the flowers from the audience prior to repeating the number.

Once, while riding in a taxi, it collided with another car and Jenkins let out a scream. She then discovered that she could sing "a higher F than ever before", and sent the cab driver a box of expensive cigars.
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She had reverse voice dysmorphic disorder.
 
oggbashan said:
Because of her inability to hear combined with her life-long need to perform which began when she was seven, Jenkins was firmly convinced of her talent. She compared herself favorably to the renowned sopranos Frieda Hempel and Luisa Tetrazzini, and dismissed the abundant audience laughter during her performances as "hoodlums ... planted by her rivals." She was aware of her critics, but never let them stand in her way: "People may say I can't sing," she said, "but no one can ever say I didn't sing."


Her recitals featured a mixture of the standard operatic repertoire by Mozart, Verdi, and Johann Strauss (all well beyond her technical ability); lieder by Brahms; Valverde's "Clavelitos" ("Little Carnations" – a favorite encore), and songs composed by herself or accompanist Cosmé McMoon.

Jenkins often wore elaborate costumes that she designed for herself, sometimes appearing in wings and tinsel, and, for "Clavelitos", throwing flowers into the audience from a basket (apparently on one occasion, she hurled the basket as well) while fluttering a fan and sporting more flowers in her hair. After at least one "Clavelitos" performance the audience demanded that she sing it again, compelling McMoon to collect the flowers from the audience prior to repeating the number.

Once, while riding in a taxi, it collided with another car and Jenkins let out a scream. She then discovered that she could sing "a higher F than ever before", and sent the cab driver a box of expensive cigars.
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The more you learn about her, the funnier it gets!

I wonder which the taxi driver thought was worse, the accident or her scream?
 
Balladeer08 said:
"I tink dere's sumtin' wrong wid her troat."
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From the Wikipedia article:

Her dubious diction, especially in foreign languages, is also noteworthy. In actuality, the ravages of syphilis had slowly, over time, made its way to her brain and auditory and central nervous system. Then, even worse, for the rest of her life she suffered severe side effects caused by the era's poisonous mercury and/or arsenic treatments. There was no known cure for the disease until the discovery of penicillin.
 
Balladeer08 said:
"I tink dere's sumtin' wrong wid her troat."
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I hear Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

"Well, I'll tell you."

"No! Not like that! Not like that!"

chorus: She's going to tell, she's going to tell...

"Stop it! STOP IT!"
 
Recidiva said:
I hear Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

"Well, I'll tell you."

"No! Not like that! Not like that!"

chorus: She's going to tell, she's going to tell...

"Stop it! STOP IT!"
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That's because the Monty Python team were well aware of Florence Foster Jenkins AND William McGonagall.
 
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