Comments on: Challenging and enterprising concert “Freedom and Captivity” and the like, from Nota Bene https://middle-c.org/2016/10/challenging-and-enterprising-concert-freedom-and-captivity-and-the-like-from-nota-bene/ Classical Music Reviews, Wellington, New Zealand Fri, 13 Jan 2017 00:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: Rebecca https://middle-c.org/2016/10/challenging-and-enterprising-concert-freedom-and-captivity-and-the-like-from-nota-bene/comment-page-1/#comment-694114 Fri, 13 Jan 2017 00:24:00 +0000 https://middle-c.org/?p=11948#comment-694114 In reply to Lindis Taylor.

Hi Lindis, I have just seen your reply now. I do apologise for sounding a bit sharp – I really appreciate the work you (and other reviewers) do. I had seen that it was wrong in the programme notes too so assumed you didn’t realise.
Thanks!
Rebecca

]]> By: Lindis Taylor https://middle-c.org/2016/10/challenging-and-enterprising-concert-freedom-and-captivity-and-the-like-from-nota-bene/comment-page-1/#comment-694091 Wed, 02 Nov 2016 04:19:42 +0000 https://middle-c.org/?p=11948#comment-694091 In reply to Katie Chalmers.

Thanks for your remarks Katie. That’s interesting. I think I meant by natural New Zealand voice that it had not the characteristic sounds of today’s New Zealand accent, but rather the educated voice of 30 or 40 years ago.
It sounded to me much more like the New Zealand accent with which I grew up. Anyway, I was responding to Jenny’s as you had evidently intended: when a New Zealander in Britain could be mistaken as having the neutral educated accent of someone from the home counties, distinct from an Australian or South African.

]]> By: Katie Chalmers https://middle-c.org/2016/10/challenging-and-enterprising-concert-freedom-and-captivity-and-the-like-from-nota-bene/comment-page-1/#comment-694090 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 20:51:41 +0000 https://middle-c.org/?p=11948#comment-694090 Hi Lindis, I have just now got to reading your review. I appreciate hearing all the background on the reading and some of the music. Thanks for taking the time to write this – much appreciated! One small point, Jenny Gould’s voice is very distinctly English – I think she’s from Birmingham (sorry Jenny correct me if wrong!). We thought her accent would be fitting anyway for that time in NZ. It’s great to get these detailed reviews. Also apologies about some spelling inconsistencies in the the programme. It didn’t make it to proofreading due to last minute changes, as (unknown to the audience) we had several major changes in the the concert lineup – particularly the wonderful James Tibbles stepping in (flying down from Auckland!) and taking up the organ part the day before the concert due to illness of our resident organist. Thanks again.

]]> By: Lindis Taylor https://middle-c.org/2016/10/challenging-and-enterprising-concert-freedom-and-captivity-and-the-like-from-nota-bene/comment-page-1/#comment-694083 Tue, 04 Oct 2016 05:38:14 +0000 https://middle-c.org/?p=11948#comment-694083 In reply to Rebecca Warnes.

Thanks Rebecca.
But you should have paid as much attention to the programme, from which I recorded your name accurately. (Your remark a bit peremptory).
But you may well have noticed, as I have just now, that Corrina’s name was spelled wrong – I instinctively followed the normal rule of spelling – double consonant after an accented vowel.
Now both fixed

Lindis

]]> By: Rebecca Warnes https://middle-c.org/2016/10/challenging-and-enterprising-concert-freedom-and-captivity-and-the-like-from-nota-bene/comment-page-1/#comment-694082 Mon, 03 Oct 2016 23:39:41 +0000 https://middle-c.org/?p=11948#comment-694082 Cellos – Rebecca WARNES and Corrina Connor.

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