Jim O'Rourke for me. Especially when I listen to his album "I'm Happy And I'm Singing and a 1, 2, 3, 4", I do share same types of feelings.
Music that has a hold of me beyond understanding
I just took a musical bath. I listened, for the umpteenth time, to Puccini's La Boheme. I can't begin to understand how someone could ever create such a thing of beauty. There are many 'songs' that compete in their individual beauty, but no other opera, play, or body of singing that even comes close, for me. You?
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The most beautiful woman and the most powerful surreal voice of this century for me is Marian Anderson able to sing anything to more than just perfection ...
She can sing Bach, Verdi, Shubert or Schumann or any spirituals and would had sing jazz over any other female singer... Toscanini said of her that there is only one voice like her by century, and Sibelius say to her that she was too great to enter his house and he spoke truth from his musician heart not light words from his lips... She was victim of racism which is incredible after listening her one minute... She has the most beautiful voice with AT THE SAME TIME the tender emotion of a children praying and the power of an armed archangel... Unbelievable... There exist some few voice as beautiful as her contralto,Kathleen Ferrier, Aafje Heynes for example , but none with at the same times this sheer pure power .... And how many voice can sing lied, opera, Bach or Handel and negro spiritual on a level so high no one else compare ? listen to his "ave Maria"... The best deeper moving prayer put on a cd... Here in his younger years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GksRp42s3S8 Here in his last years : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsqPTuottp0 Listen "crucifixion"....I think Billie Holiday "strange fruit" take his minimalistic interpretation and his inspiration directly from her... After all it was known by all that the greatest voice in America ever among white or black is her... No one else compete even today... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-EsGNikJU4
One of the best if not the best Brahms song : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ep3h9A1SNk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hMULR80aQ8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pnNtbZj4zg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuzYE3E0Nfk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E7zjNiz2ZI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GksRp42s3S8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiFEOhZ8Jb4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3pvIBhbkfg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sruWF2Uoo4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPGEiWAPm1M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m49NK-xUUk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sri2pJu7SJQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XOHOW1zYNI&list=OLAK5uy_n-tCWrrE4Gde_YWbQQPyeb04DdCTzqRZc&index=8 |
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