Most-read Slipped Disc stories of 2020
mainIn a record year, where we logged almost quarter of a million readers in a single day (March 23 Google Analytics: 236,680 readers) – and again the next day – visitors to Slipped Disc were preoccupied by the Coronavirus pandemic and its effects on musical life.
These were the top stories:
1 Orchestra play Beethoven 9th from their homes – 725,920 readers
2 Virologist’s advice on Coronavirus – 145, 347 readers
3 Andrea Bocelli and daughter break 3 million – 91,972 readers
4 Famed pianist sees her piano smashed to pieces – 85,025
5 Concertgebouw chorus is devastated after Bach Passion – 50,859
Sorry Norman it seems that miss Wang is not there.
nor is Norman’s beloved Mirga or any of her pregnancy / baby updates / cancellations / step-ins at short notice, etc., thank goodness
Readership is fragmented between too many bashing posts.
It heartens me that classical music fans come to this site for covid medical advice.
Can I post my colonoscopy photos?
#3 will cause Maestro Riccardo (the evil one) to go beserk, if only he could read this blog. According to him Bocelli is “not a singer”.
Bocelli was enough of a singer according to Pavarotti. And he is more of a singer than the half voices that the Divine Maestro keeps bringing over here year after year, to educate the ignorant masses in the ways of true culture.
If we want to validate our personal opinions by seeking out authoritative quotes, I’d rather dig out Thomas Quasthoff’s:
“Andrea Bocelli is not an opera singer,” he proclaims, “and I cannot understand why Pavarotti should have called him ‘my successor’. What is that? Where are we living? Where is the quality? Why are big conductors making records with this guy? I am a teacher, and I know how hard it is to learn classical singing. He is not a classical artist.”
http://www.scena.org/columns/lebrecht/001018-NL-Quasthoff.html
C’mon now Petros, what need is there for authoritative sources, when God himself speaks and reveal His word to us?
Of course he s not Luca Salsi but he deserve respect he s a Sanremo singer and its not so bad. And maybe there are some people Who starter with him to learn italian…