BEST FAMOUS PERSON HI DERE HAS SLEPT WITH

basically I am a lucky sob ^_^

shit I should have listed conductors, too, because then I could namedrop Ozawa, Previn, Levine and Spano (lol he dated a friend of mine lol)

don't know who half these people are but i feel confident in my vote for roberta flack

wtf

Everyone after Dave Brubeck is an opera singer; I think they've all sung at the Met...?

i did not know this about you!

martina!!

roberta flack or take 6

25 or 6 to 4.

Yeah sur, I've done a lot of professional/professional-level ensemble singing gigs, both concert/oratorio and fully-staged opera.

The last thing I did (outside of pro church choir stuff) was this: http://www.operaboston.org/operas_marksman.php

Gonna troll this thread by voting for Amy Grant and imploring everyone else to do likewise.

haha I have no problem with that, she is literally one of the nicest people on the planet

no me, no credibility

Tough choice. Voted "SB'd for namedropping."

lol

dude it's von stade, not von stadt! sheesh!

anyway i kinda have to vote relyea bc <3 <3 <3

wow I suck at namedropping ;_;

One of my former conductors was so infamous for his inveterate namedropping that he became a punchline for us. he would always talk about some fabulous dinner he had with various famous classical/opera people that culminated in a totally banal event; it was like he ended every story with "... and then I asked Flicka to pass me the salt!"

(tehr you are probably going to be the only one who will find that funny)

i find that funny because Flicka is a horse.

haha that too

no thumbs

would totally drop the salt is what i am saying

found that vanessa williams penthouse at my uncle's in 5th grade so gonna vote her

http://blog.mlive.com/grpress/2008/03/medium_von-stade.jpg

PLZ PASS THE SALT, HORSEY

voted the chieftains for st patrick's day

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/88/242708416_df2153b6e0_o.jpg

^^^ that dude is the shit btw, like super scary talented

I voted Vanessa Williams because I was seriously angry when she was de-throned as Miss America. Apparently I am still not over it.

Feel like I should cast my vote for Roberta Flack, but instead I'm gonna vote for Stephanie Blythe, who I am looking forward to seeing in Il Trittico next year.

Don't know where the nickname came from, but did you guys know that "flicka" means girl in Swedish? Wherefore Abba's Swedish language version of "Honey Honey" has the lyric "honey honey flicka lilla."

AMY GRANT???

WAHT???

^_^

MOTHERFUCKING TAKE 6 BITCHES

When you sing with Dmitri Hvorostovsky then I'll be impressed, Dan.

dammit, he sang with the BSO 2 years after I quit that chorus ;_;

voted the pope

What about rising star Piotr Beczała, have you crossed paths with him?

a nice voice on that one!

did anyone hear flicka on wait wait, don't tell me? it was kind of awesome.

I haven't crossed paths with him, no. There's an off chance I will be in an opera with Stephanie Blythe next season but it's kind of up in the air at the moment.

actually Opera Boston is gonna be the shit next season: http://www.operaboston.org/operas_0910season.php

oooh. she was sooo good in orfeo!

Yeah, she sang "In The Beginning" for us back in... 2002? 2003? Fucking phenomenal.

like she seriously changed 'che faro' for me. i sang it in college and apparently was good at it, but i always thought it was boring. hearing it with more mature musicality and her voice/phrasing completely renewed my <3 for it!

Probably the one good thing to having done limited, private voice study and having that primarily be in German art songs is that I've had few opportunities to have my ego crushed by hearing someone else blow a song I've performed out of the water in a way I could only dream of doing. On the downside, though, I don't have many examples of what I could do with the few songs I know.

ah well

shouldn't the unwarranted high fives be on this list?

excellent point, mr. proof!

I sang for them, not with them. Also we were slightly less famous than a damp sock.

when u say damp sock everyone knows what youre talking abt

yah. the pope

http://www.topnews.in/files/pope_4.jpg
ol' damp scok

thatz him doin the wave at HI DERE's show btw

aw!

I still can't believe Shawn Colvin had the nerve to roll up on the Boston Pops in an ugly sweater that looked like it was made of hairballs and act all diva-ish. Every time she made a mistake in rehearsal, she would bring everything to a halt and whine at KL to make the orchestra follow her. It was fucking terrible.

this reminds me of when m4ndy p4tinkin showed up 45 min before curtain (preventing us from being able to open the house on time), switched around his stage set-up during his sound check, then had the nerve to talk shit about our venue during the show about how the piano wasn't in the right place and we couldn't accommodate the way he really wanted to interact with his beloved audience.

not that diva behavior should ever be encouraged/excused, but at least M4ndy P4tinkin is famous

haha

once i worked at this photo lab and this woman came into pick up her pictures and was all did u NOTICE anything AMZING on that roll there and i was like uhh and she goes MANDY PATINKIN me w/THE MANDY PATINKIN did u see i was just who the fuk is mandy patikin lady - that was the day i learned of mandy patinkin

shawn colvin is infamous

http://jensmanuel.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/guapo.jpg

her sweater basically looked like that dude's hair/beard

its a sweater!

Yeah, don't wear a sweater when you're performing with the Pops. Rehearsal is one thing, wear whatever you want to that, but spring the $80 for a non-embarrassing concert top, you whiny harpy.

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lol who voted Shawn Colvin

aggggh i know that i voted for take 6, wtf

IT WAS YOU

COLVIN-LOVER

instead I'm gonna vote for Stephanie Blythe, who I am looking forward to seeing in Il Trittico next year.
She was amazing in this.

I keep thinking this thread title is "BEST FAMOUS PERSON HI DERE HAS SLEPT WITH"

TA DAH!

basically I am a lucky sob ^_^

― Wes HI DEREson (HI DERE), Tuesday, March 17, 2009 10:00 AM (8 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This is glorious

TAKE 6, HI DERE!!

6 x 6.5" = o_0

I hear Brubeck is a stallion in the sack

Billy Gilman, too, is surprisingly versatile.

http://www.webdesignideas.org/images/quality.jpg

if we polled this again, i have to admit that i would not be able to resist voting for the idea of the chieftans pulling a train on dan

^^ I witnessed this post, can't be taken back now

My Chieftains records are for sale. I'll never be able to listen to them again without imagining - oh no, I'm doing it again :-(

ag cur gneas le 'HI DERE', gach duine le cheile

dang perry, star fuckr

one day HI DERE will arrive at his car to find that there are dried eggs on the windshield. he will wonder, "who is the asshole that has done this to me, and why?" let me say in advance, I am that asshole, sir, because you got to sing with Amy Grant, whom I worship, and I am a jealous hater who will never forgive you this awesome pleasure.

or it could just be a random googler angry that he fucked the chieftains

He needs to make a thank-you tent.

It's a miracle Elvis Costello isn't on this list.

They just cuddled.

I wonder how many list members were at this event Met Opera stars old and new join Tucker honouree Costello in benefit concert?

http://www.bestweekever.tv/bwe/images/2009/11/Michael-J-Fox-Elvis-Costello-John-Popper.jpg

i call bullshit

sorry guys

I met some Rosario Dawson-looking actress singer-wannabe the other day who might fit the bill if her various singing coaches can get her up to the Dan Perry standard.

Oh wait, somebody changed the thread title!

Tell me more about this Rosario Dawson-looking singer

"Voulez vous chanter avec moi?"

ahahahahahahaha this thread title change

What even happened here

lmao

word is that the Chieftains are still bitter about the results

bump

I forgot Dame Felicity Lott from this original list

Most of us have to go to the trouble of naming the individual members of Take 6 with whom we've had intimate encounters, so I'm impressed by that particular sexfecta.