Talk:Kate Maberly

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[edit] sorting out this article

There are a few things that could be done IMO. 1) anyone got a source that one of her parents is an "attourney", cos that's not a phrase commonly used to describe legal officials in this country. 2) it would be good to source those POV comments on her acting at the bottom. 3)source the reference to her "double major". again, not an english phrase. i think it's pretty typical for music students to study more than one subject. My guess is she has a BMus, in which case it's a single najor: music. 4)how did she play "Madeleine" and simultaniuosly "the young Leslie Caron". I'm sure that's factually correct somehow, but the wording is confusing. Amo 23:30, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Her father is a solicitor at twmsolicitors [1]Pontificake 21:46, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Then refer to him as a solicitor, British people do not use the term attorney at all unless referring to the American equivalent...

I agree with much of the above. "Double major" is a term that crops up in quite a few Wikipedia articles about people who have studied at British universities, and when I feel certain that it is a mistake I change it. However, I'm not sure in this case. I think that many students at music colleges do study only one instrument and further, I think that when two instruments are studied one is usually regarded as the main instrument (or non-instrumental discipline) and the other as the subsidiary instrument. Therefore "double major" may refer to an unusual case in which both instruments have equal importance, for example in the calculation of degree classification.

About "attorney". It may be correct if her father is very elderly: W.S. Gilbert does give us the line, "And bound on that journey you find your attorney (who started that morning from Devon)". What is more English than G&S? It would presumably also be correct if he were also qualified to practise law in the United States.--Oxonian2006 02:14, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Just skipped across this article when I randomly caught the end of Secret Garden. Removed the picture since it did not feature Maberly in any shape or form and was incorrectly captioned (maybe the picture got replaced?). Also the term 'double major' jumped out at me as an American term for a university double degree, presumed it to mean 'joint honours', and indeed TCoM only make reference to 'honours' on their site, so I corrected this. Harmonica 23:17, 11 July 2007 (UTC)