Los Angeles, CA DWM In Concert Feb 24, 2012

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screenshot:

nokiatheatrelalive.com/events/event-detail/3036/jackie-evancho-symphony-orchestra


link---> nokiatheatrelalive.com/events/event-detail/3036/jackie-evancho-symphony-orchestra

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from Sam Silvers @ FB:

Jackie's L.A. orchestra is excited:
jazharprecords.blogspot.com/2012/02/im-playing-for-11-yr-old-jackie-evancho.html



link---> jazharprecords.blogspot.com/2012/02/im-playing-for-11-yr-old-jackie-evancho.html

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losangeles.cbslocal.com/top-lists/what-youre-doing-this-week-february-20/




Comments:
Steve says
Jackie Evancho is not an opera singer, has never been an opera singer, denies being an opera singer and probably never will be an opera singer. She is a classical crossover singer.
I hope some day the press can get this right.
February 20, 2012 at 7:17 pm

link---> losangeles.cbslocal.com/top-lists/what-youre-doing-this-week-february-20/

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from Kent @ Nokia Plaza, LA.
A giant-sized advertisement (about 19 storeys tall) for Jackie Evancho's concert at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles on February 24, 2012.

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another from Kent taken a few minutes ago from Nokia Theater.

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From Amazon:

Posted on Feb 24, 2012 11:49:15 PM PST
Last edited by the author 1 hour ago
A Reader from "Frisco Beach" says:
Early LA review: Jackie was fantastic, her fans are great, but the other stuff.... not as much.

Several Jackie fans met beforehand at The Farm of Beverly Hills, half a block from the Nokia. The food, restaurant & service were pleasant enough, but the company was great! I got to meet & speak with Ian, kringle, jackbuckeye & joeduerr, among others; our seats were right next to Trancas & his uncle. Jack broght several "Jackie virgins" who seemed very, very impressed by her.

The bottom line: Jackie fans are some of the nicest people you'll ever meet. Yes, many of us are "of a certain age," but not ALL of us!

The orchestra & conductor were very good, but the acoustics of the Nokia are not perfect for orchestral music. Of course, orchestral acoustics are usually better further back in the hall - our seats were 2nd row, so we weren't in the best location.

The last time Trancas & i saw her together was in Dallas. He subsequently saw her in Vegas, but i missed that one.

In Dallas, the acoustics, the orchestra & crowd combined to make it an almost magical experience. The "other things" (i.e, other than Jackie) just weren't as perfect tonight.

Jackie's voice continues to improve, with a richer & more rounded timbre every time i see her. Her vocal control is excellent, & there are fewer & fewer notes her critics would call "constricted."

Edit: Personally, i find her consonants relatively easy to hear, but her vowels are occasionally strange. This will improve as she gets older, has more breath support from bigger lungs & learns more vowel modification (JMHO).

She's also becoming more & more at ease on stage, talking to the crowd, cracking jokes, interacting with us & thanking us repeatedly. The Nokia stage is large, & she was able to walk back & forth more than i've ever seen her do. She was wearing higher heels than usual, 3 or 4 inches (please correct me if i'm wrong about that!), & her toes were actually poking past the ends of the shoes (as the wife pointed out - otherwise i wouldn't have noticed!). Very cute.

The stuff i've seen on YouTube from Josh Page has been very impressive, but tonight he didn't live up to that. A lot of his high notes were very, very sharp & sometimes constricted on his solo numbers. He may have been very nervous when he was up there alone, but when he duetted with Jackie on The Prayer, they were both fantastic. They clearly have chemistry together.

Edit: Josh's tweet from the AM of the concert suggests how nervous he was:
"LA Nokia Live tonight with Jackie Evancho - if your [sic] in the area come check it out, most important concert of my life! ......No big deal. :-)"

Jackie didn't make me cry until 4 of her last 5 numbers: TLP, The Prayer diet, OMBC & the encore, PJ. Absolutely incredible.

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from JEFC:

Posted Yesterday, 11:20 PM
tony549 wrote:
I just got back from the Nokia concert. The wife and I drove 50+ miles to get to the LA Live Center and got there just 10 minutes late for dinner at The Farm, probably after all the M&G folks had left. We sat in the left corner of the first row of Orchestra, about 45 feet from were Jackie sang. The song list was something like this (my order gets hazy after Impossible Dream and I can't remember where or if "To Believe" was in the mix):-

1 - Lovers
2 - Ombra Mai Fu
3 - All I Ask of You
4 - JP O Sole Mio
5 - Nella Fantasia
6 - Imaginer
7 - JP - ? Don’t know the song, it was in Italian.
8 - The Impossible Dream
9 - A Time For Us
10 - When You Wish Upon a Star
11 - JP - You Raise Me Up
12 - Lords Prayer
13 - Angel
14 - A Mother’s Prayer (Duet)
15 - O Mio Babbino Caro
16 - Pie Jesu (Encore)

Jackie was very good in the beginning, but was fantastic for the last 5 songs. Standing O's the Lord's Prayer, the duet, OMBC, and the encore. The orchestra was very good too. My wife likes tenors bettor, oh well, I tried. Jackie's voice live is really powerful and moving; the high notes gave me chills. One criticism, she needs to improve her diction on some of the songs, but I think that will come with better breath support as her lungs grow. I had a great time.

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from Amazon:

Posted on Feb 25, 2012 12:35:36 AM PST
Last edited by the author 14 hours ago
John Shima says:
We also just got back from the Jackie Evancho concert at the Nokia Center in Los Angeles. Jackie was incredible, her tone and stage presence is improving by leaps and bounds. Josh Page was also excellent and the orchestra seemed better that the ones on the previous tour stops. The main thing we noticed was Jackie seems to now be evolving into a story teller not just a singer singing notes. That's impressive at only 11 going on 12 years old!

The Nokia has two huge big screens 20x 40 feet or larger , that showed whole the concert - this video feed could be a top selling DVD today! Excellent video so there were no bad seats in the house. Which leads to the only sore point : Granted about 3,500 seats were sold/filled, but it's an absolute travesty that there were over 3,000 empty seats! Most of them were hidden behind the curtained off areas. All the balconies were empty.Say what you will about Justin Bieber's music , but the last time he had a concert in LA he when to the local schools to give away tickets. There are thousands of schools kids in performing artist schools, church choirs and what ever ,that could have filled those empty seats. An empty seat is lost forever.

The fan mix was a little different than what has been reported in the past. The usually 50+ males dominated the pricey seats - front row pit area, but the general crowd seems predominately 50+ female, I mean like 2/3 outside of the front few rows. 90% white 10% asian, very few of any other nationalities but this is typical of a Los Angeles classical music crowd. A few youngsters , also almost no one 15-35. The cutest bunch in our area were three girls 6-12 with matching pink Jackie Evancho T- shirts - (the one with Jackie hugging the puppy) having the time of their lives! Should have been a lot more other kids filling all those empty seats!

We also asked the folks around us what they thought - the two ladies next to us said more duets! ( they had complimentary tickets) The duet with Josh was one of two 'real' standing ovations - so they may have represented what a lot of people thought, the Lord Prayer being the other standing"O" other than the finale and encore.

Great time - well worth it, we just hope the fan base expands.

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from FB:

Angela Mozaffar wrote:
Thank you Jackie for an awesome performance at Nokia. My husband decided to come on the day of your concert because he didn’t feel good about me going to LA by myself. He thought you’re good but tonight he finally heard what I’ve been hearing since AGT…and boy he’s amazed! He gave you two long standing ovations and he gave me his three favorites…Lovers, A Time For Us, and A Mother’s Prayer.

Then he got worried …that you need to rest and I stopped him right away..now don’t get carried away, her parents are doing that part for her.

I listen to your music everyday in my car at home(headphone is a must…the sound is unbelievable) but hearing you live as suggested by many is so TRUE. Your voice soared and brought me to a sort of different realm of existence. It is so magical and though I don’t really know how angels sound but since I couldn’t find any way to describe it in human terms, while you were singing ‘Angels’ I told my husband, “Oh my gosh, an Angel singing ‘Angel.’

And three little girls in front of us clapped so hard and gave you a standing ovation after you sang “When you Wish Upon a Star.”

I will watch your concert again for sure…thank you Mike and Lisa for sharing Jackie’s gift with the world.

...I am just so happy tonight that I still can't contain myself. Jackie is a genuine phenom.

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Lovers


All I Ask Of You


The Prayer (w/ Josh Page)

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from JE FB open grp(Music Of Jackie Evancho):

Hung Tran wrote:
Nokia Theater Live L.A. Jackie Evancho Billboard 2/24/12 Friday



February 24 video of the Los Angeles night sky. spotlight beams, and theatre marquee for the Dream With Me In Concert from the Nokia Theatre.

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Thanks, Sylvester!

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Impossible Dream


The Prayer

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The Lord's Prayer

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Imaginer