Posted on 04/24/2011 6:00:48 AM PDT by navysealdad
Sublime, magnificent, powerful, amazing, and breathtaking! Simply heavenly! What a marvelous piece of music and arrangement.
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Thank you for posting this. Simply wonderful.
Happy Easter to you and your family.
Best Regards
I’ve asked opera types why this gentlemen isn’t allowed to replace Pavarotti in another “Three Tenors” program.
“Not good enough,” is what they tell me.
What must some people want??
Blessed Easter to all!
Scanian, it is a matter of personal preference, but Mr. Bocelli is not quite up to the level of some other tenors. My favorite tenor of all time was Jussi Bjorling.
To me, the best rendition of the Lord’s Prayer was done by Leontyne Price. I’m not sure you can find it on youtube, but I think you can purchase it on itunes. It really is stunningly beautiful.
Jussi was mighty good for a “Northern” Swede...hehe.
Too bad he left us a long time ago.
Birgit Nilsson was the pride of Skåne. She passed away a few years ago also, sadly. A pretty salty comic also in a Scanian Hee-Haw sort of way, if you can imagine such a thing.
The Three Tenors is concert singing after all and not Grand Opera and Mr. Bocelli has a big following, which would bring interest, it seems to me.
But we all know how picky opera-goers can be. And that is actually a good thing for the preservation of quality and the future of the art.
“mighty good for a “Northern” Swede”
I am not familiar with the distinction, but now I have to know. What is this about? Do tell!
OK....you asked for it!
In general, Scania is to Sweden what Sicily is to Italy. The red-headed stepchild to the South.
The easiest way to tell you about it is to refer you to my buddy Göran Hansson’s site out of Helsingborg, Skåne, Sweden:
www.scania.org/facts/index.html
There are historical, cultural, and liguistic differences between the Stockholm-dominated North of Sweden and the South, Skåneland (Scania), whose largest city is Malmö, right across the strait from Copenhagen, Denmark.
Scanians are much more like Danes in terms of “national personality” and also in stature. We are shorter people than the Stockholm crowd, though we have our share of tall blondes. Some Scanians have dark hair and look like they belong in France more than in Scandinavia (Probably due to the proximity to the Continent). At 6’ 1/2” I was the tallest in my family. Lots of guys in it but most were under 5’10” and I think that is typical of Scanians.
The dialect (purists say the “LANGUAGE”) is different from Northern Swedish the way it is spoken. Scanian has no grammar (rather like Sicilian), so people write in Swedish.
You can spot the Swedes in a bar in Scania right away. They are the loudest and most annoying. Scanians are more polite and pleasant. More like Danes in that respect, I would say.
Scania has been part of Denmark, independent, and part of Sweden during its history. It is a rather small place but it has gone “through the wringer” more than once. If you cross the bridge from Denmark you notice that the countryside looks like Nebraska or South Dakota. Same big farms, same look to the farmhouses. Maybe because so many folks from Scania settled those parts of the US.
The Scanian flag-—red background like Denmarks’s with the yellow Swedish cross-—says a lot about the history of the place.
Oh, yeah...very important!
Scanians tend to be much more politically conservative than the people in the North.
My friend Mr. Hansson is a ferry boat captain (Helsingborg-Copenhagen) and has to pay taxes to both Sweden and Denmark! Think THAT won’t make you a tax rebel?
Oh, yeah...very important!
Scanians tend to be much more politically conservative than the people in the North.
My friend Mr. Hansson is a ferry boat captain (Helsingborg-Copenhagen) and has to pay taxes to both Sweden and Denmark! Think THAT won’t make you a tax rebel?
Fascinating! I had no idea. I’ll have to pass this along to my sister-in-law whose ancestors came from Sweden. I have no idea what part.
Thanks!
Glad I could be of assistance.
You might enjoy taking a look at the Scania website. Göran has tons of stuff in English in there.
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