Category: singers

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Luciano Pavarotti

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Luciano Pavarotti (1935—2007) was an Italian operatic lyric tenor considered one of the finest bel canto opera singers of the 20th century.He made numerous recordings of complete operas and individual arias, gaining worldwide fame for his tone, and gaining the nickname “King of the High Cs“.Pavarotti took his first steps in the world of lyric poetry as a choir singer.After working for two years as an elementary school teacher, he studied singing in his hometown with Arrigo Pola, and years later perfected his technique in Mantua with Ettore Campogalliani.Pavarotti made his debut on April 29, 1961, in the Italian city of Reggio Emilia in the role that would later make him famous: Rodolfo in Giacomo Puccini ‘s La bohème.Pavarotti’s voice and performance were very much in the powerful style of the traditional Italian tenor.His voice, at once capable of sweetness and immense volume, is considered the ideal medium for Italian opera’s celebrated bel canto works, those works calling for purity of tone and articulation even in the upper register.Pavarotti’s success was due to two fundamental elements: first of all, his extraordinarily powerful voice with its wonderfully moving timbre, and secondly, the uniqueness of his great and radiant personality.“People think I’m disciplined,” Pavarotti said.“It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.”

More of Luciano Pavarotti’s amazing career can be found at https://www.pavarottiofficial.com/

 

 

 

 

Faerie Paths — Night

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Athwart the star-lit midnight sky
Luminous fleecy clouds drift by,
As the mysterious, pallid moon
Sinks in the waveless still lagoon.
Now that the queen of night is dead,
The starry commonwealth o’erhead
(Softer and fairer than gaudy day)
Sheds lustrous light from the Milky Way;
While the Dog-star gleams, and the Sisters Seven,
Float tremulously in the misty heaven.
Faintly, afar the horse-bells ring;
Myriads of wakened crickets sing;
And the spirit voices of the night
Sing snatches of fairy music bright,
Old-world melodies – lang syne sung –
Recalling days when the heart was young,
Whose wonderful cadences fall and rise,
As the wind in the casuarina sighs;
And the world seems ‘gulfed, this summer night,
In a flood of delicious, dreamy light.

~Harry Breaker Morant

 

 

Pokin’ Fun on a Friday

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theMy good friend Andra Watkins (www.andrawatkins.com) just wrote a blog that cracked me up. Entitled “How to Have an Easy Career Like Taylor Swift,” her sentiments reflect the sentiments of anyone who’s had to work hard to make a living.

I dunno — maybe it’s just my snickety, granny personality clouding my “universal love and understanding” vision. Or maybe it’s just that it’s Friday. Go take a peek yourself, and see if you’re not smiling at the end…

 

How to Have an Easy Career Like Taylor Swift 

Dear Taylor Swift:
Congratulations! You’re in style, at the top of the charts and sold-out everywhere. I mean, you needed to be an octopus to carry your haul of gongs from the BMAs. There’s no blank space to your trajectory. I like nothing better than seeing a woman shake off the haters and live her wildest dreams.
Heaven forbid I’d ever be mean enough to attack a woman.
Especially one as powerful as you.
But Sweetie, I’m concerned. Power does strange things to people. It slants a world view. Removes natural filters. Causes bad blood. Makes some say unfortunate things
like their high-powered careers aren’t hard.

Read the rest:

http://andrawatkins.com/2015/05/27/how-to-have-an-easy-career-like-taylor-swift/

 

Thanks, Andra, for sayin’ it like it is!