Jesus Christ on a pogo stick.

I'm counting on Marita giving an award winning performanice in my dreams tonight...

Catch y'all tomorrow.


Link to original video: https://youtu.be/R8AD75_sNJM

listening to it now. thanks.

I'm a big Puccini fan. I couldn't find a good version of Maria Callas, but Katherine Jenkins will do in a pinch.

quote:

Originally posted by Jim Shugart:
Jesus Christ on a pogo stick.

I'm counting on Marita giving an award winning performanice in my dreams tonight...

Catch y'all tomorrow.


Link to original video: https://youtu.be/R8AD75_sNJM

Great post, Jim. This is an underappreciated work. I sometimes had students who sang this for voice juries, and I was always pleased to hear it.

quote:

Originally posted by Jim Shugart:
Jesus Christ on a pogo stick.

I'm counting on Marita giving an award winning performanice in my dreams tonight...

Catch y'all tomorrow.

Beautiful.

One thing that impressed me was the audience. No whistling, cheering, "whoo-hoos", etc. You could hear a pin drop and they waited until the very end to applaud. There were two pauses after she hit a long, high note; one at 2:45 and one at 4:55. It seems these days that if this had been in a large outdoor venue in the U.S., a lot of folks would be making all manner of noise during those pauses. A piece of music such as this should never be interupted; one should always wait for the end and then applaud appropriately. In other words, act like you've been there! Sorry for the extra rant but that was a very large audience and they behaved perfectly.