Julie Andrews - This Is My Beloved

Dame Julie Andrews live in concert, singing "This Is My Beloved", Japan 1977.
I love love love Julie's soprano!
Isn't she amazing?

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[blackpython]

Beautiful as always, but I must ask, where is that photo from? It's gorgeous!

[MayaLoveJulie]

Oh yes, it is gorgeous! She is gorgeous! :)

It was taking in 1970, during the filming of Darling Lili.

[bone2pick100]

the word 'amazing' is over-used and inadequate

Dame Julie is SUBLIME

[waliice]

This is amazing! Thanks for uploading. Miss her voice! She is my favourite artist ever, noone could ever replace her in my heart x

[rosamondmdopwell]

Julie Andrews is CERTAINLY *NOT ~~> a voice that can be described as *"Heard One Soprano - Heard them all". She has a distinctive, unique Voice.

She does not copy or mimic others - Others Copy her!

You hear her and without being told ... say "I bet that is Julie Andrews!"

I understand she has had extensive voice training - growing-up ...as well

[Shamsithaca]

Someone, a REAL interviewer should sit with her and go through her most beautiful songs and hear what she has to say about them today. What choices she made and how she made them and particularly discussing her technique...it would an eternal gift to musicians. It MUST be urgently put down in a book! Pavarotti did it, Placido talks about it, Callas talked about it all the time..she never does and yet she has a killer voice to match any top sopranos of our time.

[Shamsithaca]

@stormstryk Good point, she is an intelligent singer, she must have had the right reasons to choose this key. Personally, I feel this key allows the beauty of the voice and the words through, all the original key recordings have sopranos wailing and screaming High B-flats. Her approach the end is nothing less than the rays of the morning sun. I wished she sang this song more often, particularly in her last Japanese concert. You should hear her sing an excerpt from la boheme...goosebumps!

[stormstryk]

This is a gorgeous rendition of the song... My one complaint is that it is actually being performed a major 3rd LOWER than the real key! Julie could certainly more than manage the range at this point in her career. I'll say that much of Kismet was written awkwardly for the musical theatre voice. The tessitura of the real key is a killer unless one IS a coloratura soprano, but Julie was giving it a much more lyric soprano treatment here and really keeping the mix and midrange quite full.

[wattever333]

@Shamsithaca I remember a very high note in a duet with carol burnett. I forget what note it was.

[Josephiien]

this really makes me cry. Actually there are no words for this, are there? So I'll just end this commend now.

[Shamsithaca]

She hits a High A-Flat at the end. Her voice blooms, like a real coloratura should, over the A-flat. I just wonder and wish to know why she rarely sang up there. Her sound sounds easy, clean and bright. It sounds technically flawless. Can someone upload her Bell Telephone Hour special? I heard she sings some really beautiful notes.

[andreinagarban]

This song is so beautiful... and Julie's voice is absolutely breathtaking! Truly sublime...!

[jmt1217]

@katiesjustthebest I was about to post the EXACT same comment!!

[dennykdoe]

@adaminatrawlch And Rodgers told her that he didn't think she was right for pipe dream--and she wasn't, it's too American, based don Steinbeck's Cannery JRow stories--but he told her about a musical that Lerner and Lowe were putting together that he thought she'd be good in.

I'm sure you all know that project, and what happened when she auditioned, and what happened after.