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While never officially labelled as such, my friends and I always thought of this song as an ode to lovers and friends lost to AIDS. So it's appropriate for our current circumstances:

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The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus dedicated this mash up of "True Colors" and "Brave" to first responders and health care workers on the frontlines of the pandemic:

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America the Beautiful

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Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah

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You Raise Me Up

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Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus

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Seasons of Love (from Rent)

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Happy Easter, y’all.

Andrea Bocelli gave a lovely concert from the Duomo di Milano earlier today. He ended with Amazing Grace, which was a tear jerker.

3+ million watched it live. Over 18 million have watched it by this evening:

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Some truly lovely stuff there Scooter and Guin...

Thanks for posting those...
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Time to say goodbye... to COVID-19

No special connection to the virus, it's just one of my all time favorite duets.

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I was never a Bocelli fan - Jussi Bjorling is my guy among the tenors. And Pavarotti. Bjorling for purity, Pavarotti for texture..

At the risk of sounding churlish, and I definitely appreciate what he did today at Milan Cathedral, I thought he sounded as if he had lost a lot of his old purity. Maybe I'm used to seeing him with a full production crew but I was surprised.

Yes he and Sarah Brightman did something special with that song.

Having written the above, and having decided it was indeed a little churlish, I listened to the whole thing on YouTube. You can't go wrong with Panis Angelicus: one of my favorite renditions of this is Pavarotti and his dad at Modena Cathedral when the old man is clearly past his best and young Luciano is keeping an eye on him. Despite this it's wonderful. The clip I had seen earlier and which caused my remark about his (Bocelli) having lost something was the Bach/Gounod Ave Maria which always disappoints me: why would anyone bother with this when the Schubert is available? So I suppose I am biased. His unaccompanied Amazing Grace was excellent.

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Well Andy, I’m glad you were able to get over yourself and just enjoy the music. No voice is as clear and pure and powerful at 61 as it was at 31. But I enjoyed the concert for what it was - at a time when 2 billion plus across the world are celebrating some of the most important holidays in their calendar, when we usually gather in large family and friend groups, but cannot, it was a gift to the world and a way to bring people together in a lovely shared experience. I watched with my sister and the boys, plus some friends, together but apart, and as of this morning there were more than 25 million views.
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Thanks for sharing these.
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Ella in Rome the Birth Day Concert. Recorded in 1958, released 1988

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMMsOhk ... jbZkBJQECY

I have alot of Ella records. I noticed this one on my shelf and that I had not played it for a while. Life has not been kind to me lately. Sometimes I think I am performing the lead in a re-enactment of the Book of Job. But I took the CD with me as I went out to the car this morning. When I was on the road I hit play. After she began 'St Louis Blues' and long about the second chorus, but before she began scatting. I noticed I had the biggest grin possible on my face under the mask and I was pounding the rhythm on the steering wheel. It has been a while since I felt like smiling more than a polite false one.

Thank you Ella. I am fortunate to live when the technology can preserve things like that.

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Beautiful...

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Thanks for that Jim, beautiful indeed.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

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Sweet!

Morricone is one of the reasons I still watch Spaghetti Westerns.
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It doesn't get better than this....

“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

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