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The outcome is already on the board, ruxton.
So it is amerjacquino- I’m still waking up
I’m relieved it is over – it has had me tied up in knots for days.
Dame Emma wouldn’t even convince me as Handel’s Delilah! Still, her piping tones would probably cause some follicular damage of their own accord.
You’re right about Tourangeau – it was just that a couple of Graves’ chest notes had that bottled quality of hers. Let’s face it, if it hadn’t been for Joanie and Ricky, Huguette would never even have made it into a recording studio.
I have a question for you francophiles…. I have always wondered when listening to this aria if the French pronouncation of Samson is the same as Camille Saint-Saens’ last name? They must be very close, but I’m not sure if that is phonetically correct…. any ideas?
Not easy to explain all these nasal vowels without a sound file …
The nasal ‘a’ in ‘Samson is a little like the sound of an American pronouncing the ‘o’ in ‘off’.
The nasal ‘a’ in ‘Saint’ is more like the a in ‘hand’
‘…son’ is a rounded nasal ‘o’, a bit like an Englishman saying ‘honk’.
‘aen’ is like the ‘a’ in ‘Samson’ …
Zut alors!
Thackeray – thank you so much. I see how close they are, yet distinct. I knew about the nasal a in Saint, but could not figure out the o in son or the aen …..
Zut alors bien sur! A thousan thanks for clearing up this minor mystery.
I love singing in French (notice how I didn’t make any double entendres about French? ….. oops). With the French n sound, just send everything through your nose.