#Vanessa Mae

[tatteredpantaloons]

[figureskatingcostumes]

Tomoki Hiwatashi skating to Emerald Tiger for his short program at the 2018 World Junior Championships.

(Photos by David W. Carmichael)

[eurovision-revisited]

Birmingham 1998 - The interval act and other performances

For the interval, the BBC decided to go for something representative of modern Britain. At the time of the contest, the main spoken word radio station in the UK, BBC Radio 4 opened every day with a medley made up of UK folk tunes and pieces with associations with particular regions inside the UK.

This seems to be similar in thinking to the interval act. Several groups of musicians and dancers representing various cultures that make up the UK circa 1998 all performing an arrangement of Holst's 'Jupiter, Bringer of Jollity' Starting of with the inevitable group of Scottish pipers.

There's a Welsh male voice choir, the Grimethorpe colliery brass band, an Irish harp and whistle. Hang on. Ireland? Yes Northern Ireland, but Ireland? This isn't 1921. But I suppose there's a significant and large Irish community within the UK, and the Good Friday Agreement has been voted on and signed, so we'll let it pass...

..Bhangra dancers? Now it's feeling even more awkward. Yes, it's good to see not only Indian but representation at Eurovision and to acknowledge that Indian communities make up a significant and welcome part of a diverse UK population. Bhangra is especially big in Birmingham too, but aren't there some overtones of...

...Zulu dancing? OK, it's time to say it. Colonialism. It's not intended. It's supposed to be a celebration of multiculturalism and inclusion, but looking at it from 2023, the sight of various cultures singing and dancing to a piece of music to which the words of Sir Cecil Spring Rice, "I Vow to Thee My Country", have been set, it feels like a final nationwide spasm of Empire.

Vanessa Mae (from Singapore) and Lesley Garrett finish things off with the patriotic triumphant conclusion to the production.

It's a misfire - the arrangement is all over the place, trying to force different musical styles onto a 20th century classical piece in rapid-fire succession. The best thing about it is the magnificent blocking and control of camera angles that hide almost completely the movements of the large groups of musicians and dancers as they come and go from the stage.

They aimed for multiculturalism and inclusion and somehow missed. A rare bum note in what is overall a great production.

[mortifiedandawesome]

Vanessa Mae - Contradanza 1995 Live Video HQ

[freshdanks]

White Bird (Cosmic Gate Remix) - Vanessa Mae

[daikonsalad]

When I say that Winter rocks hard

the famous nyc wqxr classical music dj, lloyd moss, never failed to refer to vivaldi as: the red priest. vivaldi composed so much that it's hard to imagine him doing anything else. he Set the 3 movement form by his shear volume of works alone.

thank you. for 30 yrs., i've been a baroque & classical music junkie. my favorite vivaldi season is the one with darkness, mystery & intrigue

-shoutout to the team here in baltimore, wbjc. jonathan palevsky, you do an excellent job as program director. (and you are over-worked)

[emmikay]

Mustang: Get Gracia to lend you her hair dryer.

Hughes: What are you talking about?

Mustang: Doesn’t she carry a hair dryer in her purse?

Hughes: Have you ever met a human woman?

(later)

Mustang: Hey, do you carry a hair dryer in your purse?

Vanessa: Of course. I'm not an animal.

[gl1tched-g0th]

BPD haver that reassures ASPDer they're not a monster for their lack of empathy bc they understand emotional numbness and the inability to feel something "normally" x ASPD haver that reassures BPDer they're not too much or "two-faced" bc they understand the emotional dysregulation and paranoia

[cobalt-axolotl]

List of best girls! (Incomplete):

Cassidy Carter

Charlotte Emily

Elizabeth afton

Charlotte morningstar

Vanessa afton

Chara/kris (technically best NB)

Mae Borowski(from night in the Woods)

Waluigi

Dogs… like literally any dog

[papermint-airplane]

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Creator: SimsPlayer2765

[rawsmackdownnxtdivas]

Flashback Photoshoot - Vanessa Kraven

[waldshnep]

Vanessa- Mae

[mortifiedandawesome]

Vanessa Mae - Contradanza

[hotniatheron]

Devil’s Trill Sonata has to play in IWTV at least once