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Eleanor Steber "Knoxville: Summer of 1915" 1/2

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  • @7inga7 There is some fogginess here. If you check out her autobiography Steber talks about this; it was likely already written in-part and repurposed and adapted for Steber.

    People have claimed to have heard it performed publicly before Steber made her recording.

  • I am astonished at the posts. In the "streetcar" section, there are slight rhythmic errors. It sounds as though Steber and the piano are not quite together. I believe that there are very good things about this performance. However, to compare Steber and Upshaw is truthfully to compare a spinto sound to a leggiero sound: apples and pineapples.No need to go all better and worse on them.

  • @tightlygagged I agree with you. I find it amazing that Dawn Upshaw has fans. I've heard better from students who were in music school. There have been times I've felt sorry or embarrassed for her and wondered why she wasn't doing Broadway musicals instead of pretending that she was an operatic diva.

  • Brilliant. A vastly underappreciated singer.

  • no one's ever done it better.

  • As far as I'm concerned, not Upshaw nor anyone else can 'hold a candle' to this performance. I know she commisssioned it.

  • I would give anything to witness some of you perform. What a distasteful bunch of losers. Come to think of it I don't miss music school very much at all. Picking apart Knoxville. Go practice you fools.

  • The comments here from tightlygagged are spot on. Steber sang with a little more heft on original recording with orchestra (Columbia), than this (on her label - StAnd). This recording is much more intimate, and there is nothing operatic about the sound, it is just straightforward singing. She didn't modify the crap out of every vowel. I don't dislike Dawn Upshaw, but she sang as though she had a big hot marshmallow in her mouth.

  • @tightlygagged well you're a bit severe, but you are right!

  • Tightlygagged? If only you meant your mouth.

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