Music that has a hold of me beyond understanding

Before I listen to Pavorotti, I'll drink a pint of burbon first or go to hospital in coma.

It is normal that each one of us differ in our innate taste...Acquired taste as Marian Anderson is for me or for you are more challenging to appreciate...( i never like opera as an innate taste, i prefer sacred music and choral one )

Try this :compare his two versions of the Ave maria of Schubert, the younger one in his prime and the latest one when she was way older , compare the two version to all other versions by most known singers on youtube... And meditate on that comparison... Just a game... 😊 Dont feel the obligation to like her , just compare her with other singer to measure his singing soul...

She really gives us the impression that she pray way more than a mere singing but the singing is perfect anyway...

This is why she is my perfect singer... With few others...She pray when she must pray and not mere only sing a tune ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GksRp42s3S8

The negro spiritual "crucifixion" is so powerful that we can disperse a crowd if we put it on speakers... Try it, we dont lack crowd to disperse and dispense with these days... 😉

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiFEOhZ8Jb4

No -- I will never say that! There is no question that she possessed the capability. I’m afraid we are back to the factor of "taste", yet again, an impediment with which I struggle far more than you ;o)

For me it would be the early Mannheim Steamroller Fresh Aire series, especially 1 & 2.  I am elevated to another place when seriously listening 1, 2 and even 3.

....it used to confuse friends, co-workers, and the sudden stranger how spouse and I could go to the symphony on one weekend/evening....then the next excursion go to see and listen to 'something entirely Different', 180 out on any of the 4 planes.

One weekday, I 'cused self from work an hour early so we could 'go to dinner, and then go to a downtown concert for the evening...

"Sure, we're jealous already!  Who're you going to see tonight?"

"Garbage, really looking forward to it...."

Response?  Muted and somewhat confused....this office played a lot of Enya, and that of a similar style...

(...I actually enjoy a bit of Enya, but the steady diet....not so much.  Was looking forward to a 'hit' of loud in a smaller venue...)

"Garbage?   Uhh, who's....."

"They're a great group, we're fans....'Paranoid', 'Stupid Girl'....fun loudness...*G*  See y'all in the AM, and thanks!"

( A couple of the younger workers were jealous, the owners....a bit confused.

Likely still are....) 

....I mean, what's Not to like....*smirk*

I Think I'm Paranoid, revisited remix....

25 years ago, after that?

I likely wouldn't have come back to work....Call In Dead, via a stranger....*LOL* ;)

Dante’s Prayer by Loreena McKennitt can do it for me.