5. On A Clear Day... - Hurry, It's Lovely Up Here

Audra McDonald Sings the Movies for New Year's Eve

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[lookingforacause]

Makes me want and skip around the neighborhood! Great performance of a charming song. Thanks for posting.

[mikesterSTLMO]

Love Audra! She's not Barbra; she's not trying to be.

[magicfunk151]

@carr0760 Mrs. McDonald earned a degree from Julliard in Voice... And she performed in a two act one-woman opera in 2006.

Also how does one train in solely classical voice?

[rogharm]

@mikesterSTLMO I never heard of shirley horn but i hear of marilyn and lena horne. ROGHARM blow your horn gabriel. in the winter we need warmth so on the MUTUAL RADIO NETWORK we listened to GABRIEL HEATTER he was real!!! ROGHARM he announced the bruno hauptman trial of the lindburg baby kidnapper. years later they found the baby alive. just like amelia earhart was a us spy and did not die with fred noonan.

[mikesterSTLMO]

@rogharm OK, how can I say this so even you can understand it. Well here goes; ... "say yo' ... u callz yoself a self expecting homey and u don't even know who Shirley Horn is? Da'um, if you ax me you is dumb, and datz da troof. Hey it's fun to speak bubonics!

[rogharm]

@mikesterSTLMO You idiot it is MARILYN HORNE you cannot remember great singer's name. listen to todd duncan. you are a racist.!!!!!! ROGHARM jessye norman and clama dale are added to the list also billy eckstine.there are too many other great black singers cannot name them all here. i cannot BATTLE with you. you are fool quality shows no skin color. just because these white singers are popular does indicate that they are quality. gene kelly cannot sing but can dance. this truth accept it.

[mikesterSTLMO]

What? Me racist? No way, I know a lot of negro people that work for me. Vernell cleans my house and ol' black Joe does my gardening and handyman work for me. I don't even mind eating at restaurants even if colored people are in there. So don't say I'm racist. By the way, you left out Shirley Horn whom Barbra also sings better than.

[rogharm]

@mikesterSTLMO You are a racist!!!!! Audra is better than affected streisand and garland. Quality is quality!!! I like leontyne price, all hibbler, sarah vaughn, della reese. they are black and QUALITY!!!!!! barbra cannot compare them. blanche thebom is better than all of them and she is white does that satisfy your racial quota?? ROGHARM you mention race, how dumb? you must be a bigot. i like jules bledsoe who was the first black opera singer Allowed to sing at the met in nyc.

[mikesterSTLMO]

@rogharm Do you really think I'm going to actually participate in this ridiculousness? Would I be right in assuming your skin is black?

[rogharm]

@mikesterSTLMO Audra is better than streisand anyday!!!!! great tone and vibrato!!!! audra makes barbra sound sick. AUDRA is number one. i love her quality performances!!!!! ROGHARM opera singer or no opera singer audra meets my high criteria for a great singer as to me she sounds like an opera singer whether she is or not!!!! her voice is great in her performances her voice has quality, babs does not!!!!! only a high pitch with phony effect when she attempts to sing. audra C A N SING!!REAL

[rogharm]

@carr0760 from ROGHARM audra may not be an opera singing opera. in my opinion, audra has an opera voice even tho she does not sing opera. barbra does N O T have an opera voice and audra makes barbra sound weak with no tone. audra has the quality to sing opera if she to sing opera. her performance in wonderful town with thomas hampson proves she has an operatic voice. brent barrett has an operatic voice but probably brent barrett does not sing opera. these artists have the talent .

[carr0760]

@rogharm Audra McDonald is NOT an opera singer. She is classically trained and primarily performs Broadway music. There is a significant difference between a classical singer and an opera singer, and, while I love Audra immensely, she was never trained in Opera.

And...you can't really compare Babs to Audra as they are completely different. I would label Barbra as my favourite singer of all time and Audra as one of my top 2 current broadway performers.