Tea Man With Tea Gum
meets Emily Barlaston
"Knedu min fraulino / Logu min savago musikant" K7
Drill your ears for latest tea - man - with - tea - hen collabcassette -- the most outstanding duo project since Pavarotti Schmavarotti was killed by the pack of wild boars! Used to be a fairy climax for all opera heads and good will addicts of our favourite beasty russian noise clowns.
Retired English diva Miss Emily Barlaston was born in19#@ in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, and was awarded the Order of the British Empire by her personal friend Queen Elizabeth, as thanks for her services as prima donna, cultural diplomat, and for her work with the Guides and Brownies of England.
Although she ended her active opera career in 1977, she has been keeping active by giving recitals in Austria (Austria Centre, Vienna), Great Britain (Royal Albert Hall, Purcell Room, Tiddy Doll's and Kensington Hilton, London), Ireland (St. Paul's Hall, Belfast), Denmark (Krudttnden, Copenhagen), Belgium (De Zeyp, Brussels), France (La Mounde, Toulouse), Spain (Palau de Msica, Valencia), Portugal (Barringtons, Almansil), Korea (Sheraton Walker Hill and
Westin Chosun, Seoul), Germany (Y.M.C.A., Neumnster), the Czech Republic (Palace of Culture, Prague) and the Netherlands (where she spends a lot of her time) - and everywhere to a standing ovulation. She is one of the founders of the Enschede-Hengelo Esperanto Naturist Workers' Cycling Club. Recently she celebrated the Liberalisation of Holland by giving concerts for English soldiers, whom she had earlier entertained in hospital beds (featured on BBC Radio's The News Quiz); she has also given a series of concerts with the Dutch Royal Military Band.
After appearing with the Dutch National Touring Opera as "The Baroness" in Leonard Bernstein's musical Candide (with Marcel Reijans) she began the seventh farewell tour of her one-lady show, entitled One Lady Show. She has appeared as the guest of several prominent personalities in the Netherlands (including Queen Beatrix and (ex)-Prime Minister Lewd Rubbers) and has also sung on Austrian Radio, Peking Radio and Radio Polonia. She appeared in Warsaw in the TV programmes Muzzy in Gondoland and Muzzy returns to Gondoland; after this, her first Compact Disc made its appearance, with the French rock-group Vinilkosmo, then her second (on Monopolka): Emily kaj la Teulo (this record).
She was a guest artist of the Orchestra of Brabant (in four concerts, singing in the finale of Beethoven's 9th Symphony), the Brass Bands of the Dutch Army and Navy (on several occasions), the world-famous Concertgebouw Orchestra, and also the Phillips Brass Band. Apart from taking part in the international Cultural Festival in Aalen, Germany, she also presented An Evening Alone with Miss Emily Barlaston O.B.E. and Thursday in the Park with Emily in the Vondel Park, Amsterdam (as part of the Gay Games there), and took part in AIDS benefits for the Amsterdam Buddy Foundation. She featured in the renowned Pink Saturday at Musis Sacrum in Arnhem, and has also appeared twice at the Conference Centre in Adelaide, Australia, and received invitations to sing for congresses in Israel and Hong Kong. For the Chairman of Willem II Football Club she appeared as the leading character in the film Vaarwel Jan Vullinks. In December 2000 she was the leading lady in the Christmas special
Rondom Kerst at Theater De Avenue, Tilburg, in the Netherlands; in the following February she sang in a special Valentine's Day Concert with the Paletti Orchestra. Recently she was honoured to be allowed to sing in the presence of their Their Graces the Count and Countess of Almelo, and sang in a series of concerts with the Dutch closet-harmony male quartet Mezzo Macho.
$6 for Europe $7 for the rest of the world
