Posted on 06/11/2004 10:26:13 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
"If there is a more remarkable figure in the music world than Ronan Tynan, would you please stand up? Athlete, doctor, and world-class singer, Tynan, who found international fame as a member of the popular trio, the Irish Tenors, makes his solo debut with My Life Belongs to You. Released along with his autobiography, My Life 'till Now, the album is yet another striking achievement from this truly unstoppable talent. Tynan was born with a lower- limb disability, and his legs were later amputated. Recovering quickly, he became a champion athlete, piling up 18 gold medals and 14 world records in international disabled athletes' events in the early 1980s. Not content with that success, Tynan went on to earn an M.D., specializing in sports injuries, and started to study singing in 1992. Astonishingly, little more than a year later, he won in quick succession a series of prominent vocal competitions, culminating with the International Operatic Singing Competition in Maumarde, France....His voice is full and rich, but thanks to his late start at vocal training, it retains a charming freshness, and the popular songs here don't suffer, as they sometimes do, from the overbearing sound of a fully developed operatic voice. So what's the latest challenge for this indefatigable Irishman? Horse racing! He's already competed in the Dublin Horse Show, and judging from Tynan's past, that's only the beginning."
Yes, it is on his 'My Life Belongs to You' album and the Irish Tenor's 'Home for Christmas'.
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"When my Dad died the Haworth Legion came to our front yard where Dad always raised the flag every morning.. and they did a 21 gun slaute next to the flag. See I dont forget things like this. And walked my two brothers to the train station to go to war (WW2). We were a military family."
ABSOLUTELY! Let me tell you about the FIRST time I ever heard Ronan Tynan singing. It was a few years ago. I was working on the computer and had the TV set on as I usually do just for the background sounds (don't like complete silence when on the 'puter). Then in mid-key stroke I FROZE. It was Ronan Tynan singing The Town I Loved So Well. I never heard of the song nor Ronan Tynan but I had to stop what I was doing and run into the other room to watch him sing that song. It was absolutely the BEST song I have ever heard. If you never heard Ronan Tynan sing that sung before, you MUST get a recording of it. It is STUNNING!
"No one should go through life without ever hearing Tynan's rendition of "The Town I Loved So Well"." YES, YES, YES.....I love that song (as I love all of Phil Coulter's music) and I love the Irish tenor's rendition of it. Also, Paddy Reilly also does the song incredible justice.
Thanks so much, please ping when Ave Maria is available.
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last piece played at National Funeral was the main theme from Mel Gibson's movie, We Were Soldiers."
AWESOME!
As that song was playing I was completely captured by the work, and as it was fading and the audio/video was transferring to outside the cathedral I thought how it sounded like an outstanding movie score. How fitting that it was the closing credits in the movie and funeral as well.
West Point cadets sing hymn for Gibson film - Great stories here: http://www.usma.edu/publicaffairs/directorscorner/PKJMelGibsonJan02.htm
http://www.usma.edu/publicaffairs/PV/020118/voices.htm
You can hear it online here (at bottom) http://web.infinito.it/utenti/i/interface/Mansions.html
This song was sung by the West Point Glee Club at the end of the movie "We Were Soldiers"
"The Mansions of the Lord"
To fallen soldiers let us sing
where no rockets fly nor bullets wing
Our broken brothers let us bring
to the mansions of the Lord
No more bleeding no more fight
No prayers pleading through the night
just divine embrace, eternal light
in the mansions of the Lord
Where no mothers cry and no children weep
We will stand and guard though the angels sleep
All through the ages safely keep the mansions of the Lord
Words by Randall Wallace
BTTT
Thanks, keep us posted.
Also, I am surprised to hear that Ave Maria would have been sung since I thought it was a Catholic song only, and President Reagan was Presbyterian.
Thank you for the link. What a beautiful song with meaning.
Ave Maria was sung as a prelude, before the motorcade arrived at the Cathedral.
I noticed that on Amazon this weekend both WE WERE SOLDIERS and a Ronan Tynan solo album (which contains Ave Maria) have moved up quite high on the charts -- and take a few days to ship. Amazon obviously wasn't expecting a run on this music :). I have placed my order for both, as well as the book GOD AND RONALD REAGAN: A SPIRITUAL LIFE.
Maybe I'll get the CD. Please let us know if you like it. I'm a tenor and could learn a lot from him.
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