Has-Been Accompanist?
August 5th 2008 10:14
I’m not doing much accompanying of singers this year. I’m due to play for a young lady for an exam in a few weeks, but that’s about the sum total of my accompanying work for the last few months. And I won’t be playing for Brent Read, one of my favourite singers, because our dates clash: he’s doing the Competitions in Dunedin the week I’m doing a play.
I used to accompany people all the time. It was never work, but something I really enjoyed. Though of course the better the singer the more enjoyable it is. For instance, I was just checking out Claire Barton on Google, and found several references to her, from very enthusiastic fans. She was someone I played for from about her mid-teens, I’d say. She always had that special quality about her that told you she’d go a long way, and she will. (Ana James was another young singer I played for at that time who’s now on the world stage.)
Claire’s won several major competitions in New Zealand, missed out (this time round) on the Lexus Song Contest, although the radio broadcast of the final night made me think she should have been placed more highly than she was. But that’s competitions for you.
I don’t play at competitions nowadays. You could wind up playing for a host of young singers over two or three days and just about blow your mind with all the concentration.
Anyway, I’m not quite feeling like a bit of discount furniture, something that’s being sold off because no one wanted it at full price anymore, but there is a touch of that in it. Picture.
The song: I’m sorry for myself comes to mind!
I used to accompany people all the time. It was never work, but something I really enjoyed. Though of course the better the singer the more enjoyable it is. For instance, I was just checking out Claire Barton on Google, and found several references to her, from very enthusiastic fans. She was someone I played for from about her mid-teens, I’d say. She always had that special quality about her that told you she’d go a long way, and she will. (Ana James was another young singer I played for at that time who’s now on the world stage.)
Claire’s won several major competitions in New Zealand, missed out (this time round) on the Lexus Song Contest, although the radio broadcast of the final night made me think she should have been placed more highly than she was. But that’s competitions for you.
I don’t play at competitions nowadays. You could wind up playing for a host of young singers over two or three days and just about blow your mind with all the concentration.
Anyway, I’m not quite feeling like a bit of discount furniture, something that’s being sold off because no one wanted it at full price anymore, but there is a touch of that in it. Picture.
The song: I’m sorry for myself comes to mind!
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