| BEHIND THE SCENES WITH THE KING'S SINGERS |
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| Leavin' on a Private Jet Plane November 3, 2001 |
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 Hmm...which one of these little planes can carry Six Healthy Englishmen? |
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 Cool! It's the big one! Now, if we can just fit in all the luggage.... |
 Our pilot, baggage handler and all-around good guy. |
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 Robin had a sneak peek inside - and liked what he saw! |
 Steve's airplane impression. |
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 Paul won the toss with Phil to ride up front. Paul loves planes, so he was very happy. |
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| AFTER CONCERT SIGNING |
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| A very important time of a concert evening is meeting the audience in the lobby after the concert. This is a time for long-time friends to cross paths with the Singers again and for first-time fans to greet the stars up close. It's a wonderful thing to see the glow in the faces of the newly initiated, or should we say, converted! |
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| DECEMBER 8-10, 2000 HOLIDAY CONCERT WITH THE CINCINNATI POPS |
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| The December 2000 stop in Cincinnati was a very busy one for the Singers. At night they performed to packed houses in a Holiday Concert with the Cincinnati Pops conducted by Erich Kunzel, but by day they were on stage at the Music Hall laying down tracks for their first album with Telarc "Music of the Beatles", which was released in August 2001. On the day odf this particular session, they spent most of their time on "Let it Be." The orchestra tracks were pre-recorded and were played back through cans (headsets) while the TV monitor showed Maestro Kunzel on videotape conducting the orchestra. |
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 Michael Bishop, the recording and mix engineer, talks to the Singers about the sensitive proximity of the microphones with the new Direct Stream Digital system. |
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 Telarc producer Robert Woods lets Paul know that he will hear the orchestra better if he moves the cans from his forearms to his ears! |
 Paul and Nigel doing final detail planning with the score. |
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 There is a lot of personal study and discussion among the Singers before the tapes roll. |
 Spotlight on Paul |
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 The Singers most often sing from a manuscript score like this front page of "Let it Be." For most of us, this is not as easy as reading a published score with big notes, but the guys are up to the challenge. |
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| Backstage in the props room (converted to a recording studio) listening to the first take with producer Bob Woods. The Singers did a couple of cuts on stage, then came to this room to hear the results. It was early morning and the magic wasn't happening yet. They repeated this cycle three or four times. Steve wanted to do it "one more time to get the whole thing really hot", but Bob said "I've got enough from these cuts to put it together." When you listen to the album, you'll hear he's right! |
Hmm...which one of these little planes can carry Six Healthy Englishmen?
Cool! It's the big one! Now, if we can just fit in all the luggage....
Our pilot, baggage handler and all-around good guy.
Robin had a sneak peek inside - and liked what he saw!
Steve's airplane impression.
Paul won the toss with Phil to ride up front. Paul loves planes, so he was very happy.
Michael Bishop, the recording and mix engineer, talks to the Singers about the sensitive proximity of the microphones with the new Direct Stream Digital system.
Telarc producer Robert Woods lets Paul know that he will hear the orchestra better if he moves the cans from his forearms to his ears!
Paul and Nigel doing final detail planning with the score.
There is a lot of personal study and discussion among the Singers before the tapes roll.
Spotlight on Paul
The Singers most often sing from a manuscript score like this front page of "Let it Be." For most of us, this is not as easy as reading a published score with big notes, but the guys are up to the challenge.