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Title: Wrong direction
Review: To populise something doesn't mean that you need to dumb it down or simplify it. Russell Watson's claim to be the "people's tenor" is simply absurd, for, instead introducing people to classical music and its many joys and intricacies in a proper way, he just simplifies the music and gloss over the details (which he probably cannot manage with his limited vocal resources and unformed technique). By turning those classical arias into pop tunes, he cannot claim to be promoting classical music, and my singing it in a pop way, he cannot claim to be a classical musician or even a tenor (which does he need to transpose the music down if he's a real tenor?). The whole thing is just proceeding at the wrong direction and it's music which will suffer in the long run.
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