Our next talk on the 12th of April will be delivered by Gordon Ledbetter, the award winning broadcaster and author of two critically acclaimed biographies on John McCormack. The talk will commence at 11am.
His talk ‘Then and Now‘ refers to the period of singers captured by the talking machine from roughly the end of the nineteenth century up to the present day. It will explore how singing has changed, in some respects quite radically, over the years as the history of sound recording amply demonstrates.
The talk looks to present reasons as to why this is the case. Gordon has always had a predilection for the singers recorded in the era of the acoustic gramophone. The illustrated examples point up what we may have lost in regard to the earliest singers and perhaps more recent singers show that there have been gains too.
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