Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
Singer, conductor, impresario, producer of opera and oratorio, and the first centenarian castaway.
On the island
Eight records
Ah! je ris de me voir si belle (Jewel Song)
Well, because of its beautiful soul.
In conversation
Presenter asks
5:39What job did you do when you first left school?
I finished my school years in Scotland … I began work by driving a crane. Six shillings a week for driving a crib. Yes, and I'd trapped a week pocket of money and now I was as rich as Croesus.
Presenter asks
6:45Well, what took you from the railways into the world of music?
I was told by my doctor that I have to sing … I went to start the same profession in nineteen hundred.
Presenter asks
13:54How long did you stay with that company [the Moody Manners Company]?
Until nineteen hundred and nine. Yes, nine years altogether, yes, tutorial.
Presenter asks
20:02For the last 25 or 30 years, you've been very busy on a big literary project. Will you tell me about that?
The condition and behaviour of the world … I began to dramatize the Bible in the same passion as I dramatize Hiawatha … fourteen different sections to be played on fourteen evenings, three hours each.
The keepsakes
The book
The luxury
“I signed duets with her when I was three years of age.”
“I drove it until my voice broke.”
“I went to start the same profession in nineteen hundred.”
“I began to dramatize the Bible in the same passion as I dramatize Hiawatha.”