Well done

Previous post (here) about Sarah's final recital gave one cause to rejoice. The results came in and she appears to have finished top of that group! She with (formerly 'un' but increasingly now) characteristic modesty, naturally felt her friend Liana did as well if not better. The singers of course are all over the place and can't essentially be compared with each other, they are competing (if that is the right word) with themselves. So she has done well.
It was (to my doting mind) the Schumann that did it. I look forward to when she really has the emotional capacity to destroy people with the emotion of the Frauenliebe cycle...I will be the first to topple. But I am an easy target for my children!!

Stunning recital

Sarah's recital last evening was stunning. Her interpretation of the Schumann song cycle Frauenliebe, which traces the course of a courtship through marriage, and ultimately to the point of the devastating death of the husband was stunning.
It will be interesting to see what it's like in ten years time when there is some emotional trauma to back it up.
Am I too much of a father too, when I say that she has got the "Wagner" in her? I definitely heard it...power and emotion, love and tragedy. It's there.
She needs a few French lesson but her Faure songs were delightful, but topped off with the raucuous Polly songs from Threepenny Opera. I think she will get that too as time goes on, but they are powerful, powerful songs.
She slipped into her own when singing Cole Porter's "I Hate Men" crowned by slicing the top off a cucumber at the finale. I gave D the offending piece and told him that I thought this belonged to him!!
Great stuff girl!