Yes, "95:1 odds-on". I learned it as "favorable : unfavorable" in school and it stuck even though it's clearly not how people actually use odds. So would 1:95 have been the correct way to write it, or is that still improper? I'm not sure if LDF ought to permit actual gambling :m...

Nothing in this life is certain, but if I were a betting man I'd place the odds at 95:1 in favor of it happening. Please note that I'm being conservative in my number :wink: . I assume you mean 95:1 odds-on (as in you need to bet $95 in order to win $1). 95:1 odds (bet $1 to win $95) would make it ...

Thanks for explaining the reasoning. If there really is no limit on the number of tickets, that could indeed be an explanation, as it sounds logical that the parents would organize a few patrons among them who would buy tickets for everyone interested. It‘s difficult to know for certain, but it mig...

LordG wrote: ↑<span title="Sat Jul 15, 2023 10:56 pm">9 months ago</span>
It is not explicitly listed, but I have my doubts that a friend or patron can purchase more than two tickets
when only two tickets mentioned at a time.

Doubt away, the evidence says otherwise.

To me it looks like the seats where regularly bought up by patron members of SJSS during the presale phase before the general sale commenced. Of course it sounds reasonable to assume that some of the parents could be patron members themselves, but I doubt that SJSS would give them any rebates. They...

And here it is

Singing at 14/15/16 doesn't necessarily = singing as a Treble though does it. They may be singing in a lower/alto range and most people (me) wouldn't have a clue. I can say though that I was there when Josh sang Faithful Heart in July 2012. Couldn't say if he did so as a Treble mind you. https://you...

Forever is album of the week on Scala radio. There was a short interview with Sam before they played O Beata (around 1.45 into the show by Penny Smith). I assume they will play a track each day on the show and she said it was a Scala exclusive ahead of Friday's release.

Finally! Feel like I've been waiting ages for this vid! Although, I am not surprised they have saved it for just before the album get's released! I am happy that it will get to be heard by many more people, because I really do think Freddie is exceptional in this song and deserves all the praise he...

Going back a bit to the question I was asked of what Malakai should have sung in the final...Libera have released Ave Verum today and I think that would have been perfect for him. He could possibly have had the CV orchestra & his friends from the Schola to back him. The music is quite well known...

Lucio Dalla wrote this song in 1986 while spending the night in an Hotel in Sorrento, in the same room where the tenor Enrico Caruso spent his last days. It's one of the most beautiful song ever written, but it's not suitable for a choirboy, it's not meant to be sung like an opera aria,and Malakai ...

enjaysea wrote: ↑<span title="Tue Jun 06, 2023 5:20 pm">10 months ago</span>

Yorkie wrote: ↑<span title="Mon Jun 05, 2023 8:24 pm">10 months ago</span> Just wish he'd learned his lines before recording the advert.

I gave him lines but he didn't end up using them. He ad-libbed the whole thing.

The rashness of youth. 'Twas ever thus.

Would it have mattered to him - career technic - if he had won? He has now been able to present himself to a very large group of people, including professionals. What he has done now -viewed from his age- a very nice musical career is ahead of him. I think it was a bad song choice. Shoot me down if...

Difficult to strike a balance between a piece that which would fully demonstrate the superior quality of his voice and that which would appeal to the great unwashed (generally not opera). Any suggestions as to what might have worked? Don't know if it even matters. Have any pure singers won BGT sinc...

I think it was a bad song choice. Shoot me down if you wish but I think if he had sung something more accessible to the the viewers who vote he may have had a chance. I guess we will never know.