User talk:Rubbersoul88

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Serenade to Music

Rachmaninov is the usual UK spelling of his name. (In fact Henry Wood preferred the American version "—off", and argued with the BBC about using it: "I cannot take the responsibility for teaching my friend how to spell his name, and as a very recent photograph he gave me is signed RACHMANINOFF we must not spell the name in our programme with a final v." Nevertheless, "—ov" has, sadly, prevailed here, and in an article with generally UK spelling, is, I think, advisable. The raging pedants at the BBC are now trying to get us to spell the name "Rakhmaninov" but they will not succeed.)
The Gramophone Company was HMV. You had it piped to "Gramophone", which is a magazine.
Your new phrasing about the soli/ensembles would be all right, I think. Your earlier draft "Solo lines for each vocalist intersperse passages of ensemble singing by all voices together" removed the (it seems to me) useful information about the 12-part writing. I think it is still worth adding that some singers get more than one solo.
I have never added, because I cannot think of a citation, that RVW kept Eva Turner's line away from the other sopranos because hers was such a different kind of voice from theirs. If you have anything on this it would be useful.

Regards. Tim riley (talk) 08:53, 22 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]