[Magdalen] Florence Foster Jenkins.

[Lesley de Voil]

For a slice of Offbeat British humour, try Instant Sunshine - admittedly they're a trio, but they have been together for years. I like Spanish Holiday, which with its ukelele harks back to George Formby, or the newer Middlesex Man. Sometimes surreal (My budgie Has Changed to an Orang-utan) sometimes  cutting (Doctors : doctors need to practise, of that we all agee, but I would rather not have doctors practising on me!) but always entertaining (Fleeting Time.)



Regards
Lesley de Voil (who is also a Hoffnung Music Festival tragic)

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From: "thedonboyd at austin.rr.com" <thedonboyd at austin.rr.com>
Sent: ‎1/‎08/‎2015 10:52
To: "magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Florence Foster Jenkins.

Poor Florence!

I learned about the unintentionally hilarious FFJ in the 1950s from my organ teacher, who not only initiated me into the mysteries of Bach, Vierne, Durufle, Reger, and too many other ecclesiastical musicians to name, but also exposed this Texas country boy to (the intentionally hilarious) Anna Russell and the subversive Tom Lehrer.  

Later I came across, and actually heard in performance, Victor Borge, whose musicianly comedy was of a somewhat different sort.

If there have been musical satirist/comedians practicing in this vein since Borge I've missed them.  Anybody know of later, or even current, performers of this ilk?

Don in Austin