Gill wrote: > I saw Diana Krall perform in Madrid last September. She had a cold, which was > a shame 'cos her voice was a bit strained. Lovely, calm and light stage > manner, good rapport with audience, and what I wanted to be my highlight of > the evening, A CASE OF YOU, certainly was. I held my breath throughout the > whole song. Maybe. I'm biased, but, I don't think Krall put the same emotion > into her other songs, OK, they were different, as she did with ACOY. It was > clear just how much she adores Joni. The piano on this version is so sublime > (but what a helluva player she is), the depth of the emotion, the phrasing, a > pure, pure love song.
I have to agree with you - Diana Krall's performance of ACOY was absolutely sublime, and it was a step above the rest of her performance that night (which was still wonderful). The stage was dark, except for a single spotlight on her and the piano. She played a long introduction to the song, and to be honest I was thinking "Yes, it's ACOY", then "Oh, no it's not" for quite some time. But as she sang the first few words "Just before our love got lost....." I think the only noise in the audience was me gasping and suddenly whispering to Kerry, "Oh my god, it IS!" And I would say she is definitely a big Joni fan - BSN was playing over the speakers as the audience left that night! > Unfortunately, unlike the New Zealanders, Kerry, Spaniards do have an annoying > habit of coughing, and shifting about in their chairs no matter what type of > concert they go to, so that pissed me off a bit, especially since her > version of ACOY is sprinkled with wonderful silences. The audience was amazing that night and it was in a fairly large theatre, where you'd expect to hear a little noise. But they were somewhat older than at other music concerts I've been too, and very respectful. Plus she was performing with the Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra, which may have attracted a somewhat different crowd! I wouldn't say it's the norm here at all. In January we saw Dave Dobbyn and Lucy Lawless (of Xena fame - yes, she can sing!) in a relatively small garden bar, and while they were great, the audience left something to be desired. Especially the young guys standing right behind me, who (if their comments were anything to go by) were obviously there to SEE Lucy, not hear her or Dave! Hell ___________________________________ "To have great poets, there must be great audiences too." - Walt Whitman Hell's Home Page - NEW & IMPROVED! http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hell/index.html
