freak show
La Cieca (not pictured) is delighted to note that the delightful and learned Nicholas Limansky (also not pictured) will grace the stage of the next Vocal Record Collectors Society meeting to explore the controversial topic of extended or “freak” sopranos. The main topic of his talk will of course be the Peruvian songbird Yma Sumac, but he will include other voices of this controversial Fach. Details of time and location for the VRCS meeting may be found here. Nick is of course familiar to the cher public for his notable tome Yma Sumac: The Art Behind the Legend
Speaking of which, here’s an example of the Sumac legend pushing its way in front of the art: a temperament-based walkout on an evening when the “Princess of the Andes” was in terrific voice!
Amy Camus gets a whole FACH all to herself? Who does she think she is, Falcon?
C’est a rossir de rage.
szhee ist moore high-stunk than most ov dee posterz here are.
THANK YOU.
Ladies really shouldn’t admit to having “a really wide inside” as the diva does in the 1991 interview.
Off topic, but as I watched the “Necessary Luxuries” column roll down, I was taken by the eerie resemblance between Erwin Schrott and Alain Delon. They could be sisters!
The first photo of good old Yma, if I am not mistaken , was originally used on her Capitol record cover for ‘Land of the Jivaro’. God, those exotic sounds excited my school kid’s pants at the time. Promising me and others with those wicked pagan sounds of things, that awaited still further curiosity and fulfillment, that we had not yet tried or we had just started fully investigating.
To some here, it may not be known ,she can also be heard on the original Broadway cast album of Flahooly.
At least Yma Sumac could have given some of the famous ‘pretty things of today’ a lession in positioning, pitch and vocal control.
Hey, never mind the original cast album. How many posters here can legitimately claim, as can I, to have actually seen Flahooly? True, I was a mere tyke, but damn it I was there. Also true, I remember not a bit of it, but I know my folks took my brother and me, and we heard her sing Wimoweh (spelling?).
What a bitch.
And it’s her birthday on September 13th
Imagine a 5 octave Happy Birthday
I say you go bitch! Walked off the stage like a true diva. Loved it!