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Merry Christmas 2010!
Sason:
--- Quote from: milomorris on December 24, 2010, 03:53:17 pm ---Björling was an amazing talent. Did y'all hear that high B??? Jeeeez!!!
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Glad you like it, Milo. I felt pretty sure you'd know Jussi Björling.
Sason:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on December 24, 2010, 04:12:31 pm ---I was wondering about the high B but then I noticed the song was just halfway done. There was no missing the high B near the end...seemed like he had no problem nailing it either! Wow, the images of Christmas in Sweden were so interesting, and near the end the Northern Lights and images of the Swedish landscape were fantastic!!
Brian, your presentation about Christmas in Australia was very informative. Wow, we all have eclectic tastes and talents, don't we!!
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Glad you like it Lee! I find the images very well chosen too, very solemn and full of feeling.
I've never seen the Northern Light myself, I don't live up north, but I sure would like to see it one day!
milomorris:
--- Quote from: Sason on December 24, 2010, 04:16:43 pm ---Glad you like it, Milo. I felt pretty sure you'd know Jussi Björling.
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Oh yes. Thanks to great singers like Jussi Björling, Nicolai Gedda, and Birgit Nilsson, opera singers and fans (at least here in the US) have created the mythical idea of the "Swedish School" of singing. All 3 had big, bright voices, and in perfect stereotyping form, people started assume that there was something about the way Swedish singers are taught that makes that happen. In reality, these singers were using a standard bel canto technique, which originated in Italy. It is coincidental that they had vocal size and color in common.
I was lucky enough to perform Berlioz's La damnation de Faust with Gedda in the title role. Frederica von Stade sang Marguerite. I was singing with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Seiji Ozawa conducting. AND...it was my senior year in high school.
Have I mentioned that being a teenager was a blast for me??
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: Sason on December 24, 2010, 03:13:57 pm ---Jussi Björling, the world famous Swedish tenor, sings O Helga natt ( Oh, holy night)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofKk_Etapq4[/youtube]
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--- Quote from: milomorris on December 24, 2010, 03:53:17 pm ---Björling was an amazing talent. Did y'all hear that high B??? Jeeeez!!!
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Brought tears to my eyes when he finally hit that note. Beautiful, just beautiful and the images are hauntingly gorgeous. Thanks so much for posting Sason.
P.S. excuse my ignorance, but what is the significance of the curly-horned goats?
Kelda:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on December 24, 2010, 03:41:32 pm ---Kelda, that was...different! But became quite good about halfway through!
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This is my favourite Christmas song.. its a total classic over in the UK as a Christmas tune!
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