![]() ![]() ![]() It was too late for Orliński to change clothes, and so he sang just as he was-unshaved, and dressed as if ready for a day of sleeping it off under the Provençal plane trees. Only when he and his pianist, Alphonse Cémin, who was in shorts and flip-flops, arrived at the recording venue-a courtyard with a small audience-did they learn that the performance was also to be streamed on Facebook Live. Orliński put on baggy shorts and beat-up sneakers, and rolled up the sleeves of a crumpled tattersall shirt: this was radio, after all, and it was ninety degrees outside. The New Yorker picks up the story (after mentioning that Orliński was, on the day of the concert, nursing a mild hangover): ![]() Young counter-tenor Jakub Józef Orliński agreed to substitute for an ensemble that could not appear for what Orliński believed would be the radio-only live broadcast of an outdoor afternoon concert in the south of France. There are times when I think that a music-business story is “too good to fact-check,” and this is one of them. ![]()
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