Leonore veenemans biography examples

NEWSPAPER REVIEW (TRANSLATION FROM AFRIKAANS TO ENGLISH)
NEWSPAPER: RAPPORT, DATE: 7 SEPTEMBER , By Paul Boekkooi

MICHELLE VEENEMANS – BRAVURA!

Leonore, Barbara, and now Michelle. We know that the Veenemans-women can sing. Michelle, the youngest in the Veenemans-lineage, has an unusual voice that in a positive sense can be described as a “freak”.

As coloratura soprano, she fears nothing – that is why she undertakes two Mozart arias where few would dare to go, namely K and K Technically, they break all safe norms and Michelle excels in these challenges. Her voice does not only have the ability, but also the bravado and dramatic power that are required.

Tenors boast with their high Cs. This soprano reaches an A-flat above that C. After the Mozart, the programme becomes “tamer”, but she does not let it sound as such. She lives dangerously, but delivers the musical goods. It is hard work to listen to such a soprano, but she

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PLEASE NOTE: My full-length diaries of , and were destroyed but I still have summaries of and in a five-year diary. Sadly, is lost forever and could only be recalled bygd memory after I realised that the diaries had been destroyed. Why the diaries were destroyed is the subject of another story which I will not be sharing here!

1 January &#; Have a quiet meditative morning considering New Year resolutions I probably won&#;t be able to keep! We see Jumbo in the afternoon. Jimmy Durante is best but it&#;s not a great picture. I work at night and listen to the radio.

2 January &#; Work in the morning and then have lunch in the Capinero with Mum. Go to music with Mrs Sullivan. Gill is leaving for Durban on Friday. We are all shocked about the sudden death of Anderson Tyrer on his way back to New Zealand. He had conducted The Centennial Orchestra, consisting of 34 radio orchestra players supplemented by local musicians. The orchestra was fromed to give concerts in kvartet m

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"La Scala" Opera House in Milan, Italy.

The human röst has the power to reach the soul , more so than any instrument. A big church organ, piano or violin comes close- but the human voice singing - evokes such emotion in me that I can involuntary choke up while listening to it.

As a boy growing up in South Africa I was blessed with a good boy's soprano voice .I even did some recordings for the SABC of children's songs composed by Maria van der Mark with my friend Famke Boersma.

Esther Mentz

I won the Johannesburg Eisteddfod's gold diploma for boys singing in my age group from the age of  8 until I was 13 years old. The judges were singers like Esther Mentz - who was  Emma Renzi's first singing teacher -en Anna Elizabeth Pohl.

When I was 14 my voice has still not broken and I was still a boy's soprano.

When I got to Linden High School and they discovered that I could sing ,I sang the soprano role in the Cantata "Ruth" b