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Subido el 15 de enero de 2023 por Alberto O.

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Since it was first established in 1882, the Royal College of Music in London has trained many of the world's most promising young musicians. 00:00:00
This is Millie Forrest, a 24-year-old master's student who is training to be a classical singer at the Royal College. 00:00:20
Hi Joe! 00:00:31
Hi, how are you doing? 00:00:32
Today, Millie has a rehearsal and practice performance with her friend and accompanist, Joe. 00:00:33
Many of the students here have already been playing and performing for years 00:00:40
and Millie is no different 00:00:46
I've been singing from about the age of seven 00:00:48
for as long as I can remember 00:00:55
I've always loved music 00:00:57
I'm not from a very musical family 00:00:59
so I'm not really sure where my voice has come from 00:01:01
but from an early age I knew that I loved being on stage 00:01:04
and love performing. 00:01:10
Good. 00:01:12
Great, shall we just have a go and see how we get on? 00:01:14
Yeah, what's a good tempo for you? 00:01:16
She knew that if she won a place at the Royal College of Music, 00:01:17
it would be a real chance to turn her passion into a profession. 00:01:21
I had decided to do a Master's at the Royal College of Music 00:01:32
probably three years ago. 00:01:36
And when I got in, because it's all audition based, when I got in, I thought, oh, OK, well, maybe I've got a good chance then. 00:01:40
And and it's been going well ever since. 00:01:49
Just at the end. Yeah, it's really fabulous. 00:01:53
I'm improving all the time. I have some lovely friends here, but it is tiring and the competition is really high. 00:01:56
There are lots of singers out in London who who are really talented. 00:02:06
But while Millie is following her dream, 00:02:10
isn't it difficult being a full-time student in London, 00:02:33
one of Europe's most expensive cities? 00:02:36
It is, absolutely. It's very expensive. 00:02:40
and so I've had to have a part-time job all the way through my studies. 00:02:42
I've been working for six years alongside my training. 00:02:48
At the moment, I'm an usher at the Wigmore Hall 00:02:53
and I've been there for three years now. 00:02:55
So what does a concert hall usher do? 00:03:00
We mainly look after the audience when there are concerts 00:03:04
and we do jobs such as checking tickets 00:03:07
and we're there in case there's a fire or emergency. 00:03:10
In fact, many music students work as ushers 00:03:16
and most of them dream of being on stage themselves one day. 00:03:19
But for Millie, this opportunity came a little sooner than expected 00:03:24
in July 2017. 00:03:28
Well, I had a call on the Wednesday evening 00:03:32
and John Gilhooly, who's the director of the hall, 00:03:35
told me that he'd like me to step in for a concert on the Saturday. 00:03:38
So I had a few days to prepare, 00:03:43
but there was a rehearsal first thing on Thursday morning. 00:03:45
So I stayed up until probably one in the morning that night, 00:03:49
desperately learning all the music. 00:03:54
I found the words particularly tricky, actually. 00:03:57
So, I mean, a lot of the pieces were in French and German, 00:04:00
so I got cracking straight away. 00:04:05
and after just three days of preparation Millie took to the stage but did the audience know she 00:04:06
was standing in for a singer who was ill there was an announcement made at the beginning of the 00:04:15
concert which was lovely because I think the whole audience was on my side and everyone wanted me to 00:04:22
do well and it didn't take Millie long to impress with her voice there was a great applause everyone 00:04:27
was smiling and clapping and I did have a feeling that I'd done well. And the audience weren't the 00:04:52
only ones to take notice. So after the concert everything went quiet for a couple of weeks 00:05:04
and life just went back to normal and then just out of the blue the Times asked whether they 00:05:11
could do an article on me about what had happened and it was a really nice story. So I think it 00:05:18
really warmed people's hearts and uh and it was nice to make people smile so um that day all of 00:05:25
these different news channels got in touch and I went to the BBC and did an interview for them and 00:05:35
then I met Sky as well and um it was really exciting I must have done five or six interviews 00:05:40
in the same day and uh and then I remember the next morning um the Evening Standard had uh had 00:05:46
bought out their newspaper and I saw my face on the front cover and when I got on to the tube 00:05:55
everyone was reading that paper so I saw about a hundred millis down the carriage that and that 00:06:03
was that was really surreal and I think that that was when it had sunk in a little bit 00:06:10
um because the most exciting part for me was getting to sing in the Wigmore Hall along all 00:06:14
these fabulous singers that I really admire and look up to um but then I and I sort of hadn't 00:06:20
focused on the media side as much so uh yeah it was it was it was a lovely occasion 00:06:27
but has this opportunity helped Millie's career I think it has I think um it's given me a boost 00:06:34
it's made me really inspired and it's made me work harder over the last year but actually 00:06:49
life carries on and I still have a lot that I want to work on my voice is nowhere near perfect 00:06:56
and I'm my biggest critic but it's it was nice to know that someone had me in mind and wanted 00:07:02
to encourage me so fingers crossed things will carry on that positively 00:07:12
And does she still work at the Wigmore Hall? 00:07:17
I still work there as an usher 00:07:32
It's still really expensive living in London 00:07:33
And every now and again someone comes in and asks 00:07:36
Are you going to be performing here soon? 00:07:40
And I just have to tell them that hopefully soon 00:07:42
Because you never know what people are planning 00:07:46
But it was a lovely story when it happened 00:07:48
HE SINGS IN GERMAN 00:07:53
Subido por:
Alberto O.
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Fecha:
15 de enero de 2023 - 19:50
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Centro:
EOI E.O.I.DE MADRID-VALDEZARZA
Duración:
08′ 08″
Relación de aspecto:
1.78:1
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