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This is simply one of my absolute favourites,

L'amore Sei Tu (I will always love you) Katherine Jenkins

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp2Njyd9678

Il Divo, Every Time I Look at You

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=ax3H0C82S00&feature=related

Puccini's La Boheme - you girls will cry your eyes out!!

Hi Thomas :)

How lovely to see you here my friend.

Just going to listen ... >>>>>>>

...<<<<<< runs back daintily to collect a box of soft pink tissues lol! wmsl

Tis so sad, am having a problem with YouTube at the moment, found these links ... hoping you enjoy.

Thomas, are they the right ones hun?

Pavarotti & Domingo - Puccini - La Boheme - O Mimi tu Piu No

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=NlBFBO5odvM

Placido Domingo & Kiri Te Kanawa in La Boheme

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=pIw3uqvcn3Y&feature=related

Morning all

So quiet here, am back ... haven't been well, so hoping you're all okay.

xxx Shimms xxx

All I can say is ... such happy memories, 21st birthday party lol!

Grease
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Kly5Z9J4Y&NR=1

nuged for Alko xxx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ABlOapajWE


Keith West - Grocer Jack (Excerpt from a Teenage Opera)

2,3,4
Counts the days into years
Yes 82 brings many fears
Yesterday's laughter turns to tears
His arms, his legs don't feel so strong
His heart is weak there's something wrong
Opens windows in despair
Trying to breath in some fresh air
His conscience cries �get on your feet�
�Without you Jack the town cant eat�
Grocer Jack grocer Jack get off your back
Go into town don't let them down
Oh no no
Grocer Jack grocer Jack get off your back
Go into town don't let them down
Oh no no
The people that live in the town
Don't understand
He's never been known to miss his round
Its 10 o'clock the housewife's yell
When Jack turns up we'll give him hell
Husbands moan at breakfast tables
No milk no eggs no marmalade labels
Mothers send the children out to Jacks house
To scream and shout
Grocer Jack grocer Jack get off your back
Come into town don't let us down
Oh no no
Grocer Jack grocer Jack get off your back
Come into town don't let us down
Oh no no
Its Sunday morning bright and clear
Lovely flowers decorate a marble square
People cry and walk away
Think about the fateful day
Now they wish they'd given Jack
More affection and respect
The little children dressed in black
Don't know what's happened to old Jack
Grocer Jack grocer Jack
Is it true what mummy says
You wont come back
Oh no no
Grocer Jack grocer Jack
Is it true what mummy says
You wont come back
Oh no no
Grocer Jack grocer Jack
Is it true what mummy says
You wont come back
Oh no no
Grocer Jack grocer Jack
Is it true what mummy says
You wont come back
Oh no no
Grocer Jack grocer Jack
Is it true what mummy says
You wont come back
Oh no no

For my friend Merlin who adores Opera,

Placido Domingo, an impromptu performance with him both playing the piano (beautifully) and singing, tis glorious,

Placido Domingo - Granada - Impromptu Performance 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A7XnPozePo

Hope you enjoy Merlin, I am. :) xxx

English: Frank Sinatra, Spanish: Placido Domingo

Granada

Granada, I’m falling under your spell,
And if you could speak, what a fascinating tale you would tell.
Of an age the world has long forgotten,
Of an age that weaves a silent magic in granada today.
The dawn in the sky greets the day with a sigh for granada.
For she can remember the splendor that once was granada.
It still can be found in the hills all around as I wander along,
Entranced by the beauty before me,
Entranced by a land full of flowers and song.
When day is done and the sun touch the sea in granada,
I envy the blush of the snow-clad tierra novada,
Soon it will welcome the stars
While a thousand guitars play a soft carbinera.
Then moonlit granada will live again,
The glory of yesterday, romantic and gay.
(musical interlude)
And soon it will welcome the stars
While a thousand guitars play a soft carbinera.
Then moonlit granada will live again,
The glory of yesterday, romantic, gay granada.

And these are the spanish lyrics as sung by placido domingo:

Granada tierra soniada por mi.
Mi cantarse vuelve hitana cuando es para ti.
Mi cantar hecho de fantasia.
Mi cantar flor de melancholia que yo te vengo adar.
Granada tierra ensangrentada de sangre de toros.
Mi bello conserva el embrujo de los ojos moros.
Resuello rebelde hita0no y lleno de flores, y beso tu boca de grana,
Tu blanco manzana que habla de amores.
Granada manola hitana de coplas preciosas.
No tengo otra cosa que darte que un rama de rosas.
De rosas de suave fragancia que alleje amargo la virgen morena.
Granada tu tierra esta llena de lindas mujeres de sangre del sol..

Volare, Dean Martin ... listening to this at the moment and luvin it!

Pienso que un sueno parecido no volvera mas
Y me pintaba las manos y la cara de azul
Y me improviso el viento rapido me llevo
Y me hizo a volar en el cielo infinito

Volare, oh oh
Cantare, oh oh oh oh
Nel blu dipinto di blu
Felice di stare lassu

Y volando, volando feliz
Yo me encuentro mas alto
Mas alto que el sol
Y mientras que el mundo
Se aleja despacio de mi
Una musica dulce
Se ha tocada solo para mi

Volare, oh oh
Cantare, oh oh oh oh
Nel blu dipinto di blu
Felice di stare lassu

Pienso que un sueno parecido no volvera mas
Y me pintaba las manos y la cara de azul
Y me improviso el viento rapido me llevo
Y me hizo a volar en el cielo infinito

Volare, oh oh
Cantare, oh oh oh oh
Nel blu dipinto di blu
Felice di stare lassu

Volare, oh oh
Cantare, oh oh oh oh
Nel blu dipinto di blu
Felice di stare lassu
Pienso que un sueno parecido no volvera mas
Y me pintaba las manos y la cara de azul
Y me improviso el viento rapido me llevo
Y me hizo a volar en el cielo infinito

Volare, oh oh
Cantare, oh oh oh oh
Nel blu dipinto di blu
Felice di stare lassu

Volare, oh oh
Cantare, oh oh oh oh
Nel blu dipinto di blu
Felice di stare lassu

I am singing in the Startlight Symphony in the Auckland Domain on the 21st of this month. It will be my last time in it. I have been doing it since it started in 1994. The first year there were 1200 choir members! Last year just over 700.
We are doing a Maori song; Dies Irae from Mozarts Requiem; Hallelujah from Beethovens Mount of Olives; Polovtsian Dances from Borodins Prince Igor; Jerusalem; Pomp & Circumstance - Land of Hope and Glory; 1812 Overture with laser lights, fireworks and several army cannons. That is always the highlight of the evening.
The orchestra are also doing Vivaldis Four Seasons with violinist soloists, a piece from Starlight Express with a couple of singers, other pieces from musical shows and operas, Bohemian Rhapsody (we sang that one year); The Dam Busters March; and Brooke Fraser will be doing several of her pieces (I hadnt heard of her but I am told she is a 'sort of' pop singer.)
The evening finishes with our Nat. Anthem and Now is the Hour.
The choir has its first practice this Saturday, another next Thurs night, dress rehearsal on the Fri night then the concert the next night. I hope the dress rehearsal is not as wet and windy as last year. It was horrendous. And the concert was postponed until the Sunday.
It is a free concert. The domain grounds are always full of people, several hundred thousand of them. Some bring folding chairs to sit on, others sit on the ground, or just wander around. Quite a night. I will probably miss it in future but with my husband getting Alzheimers I just cant continue.
Huia.

With the Starlight Symphony the orchestra are seated on a stage in the old cricket pavilion, under cover, while the choir are seated on the bleachers below/in front of them. The orchestra conductor has his back to us and we cannot see him so we have our own conductor who conducts in time with the orchestra conductor to keep us in step, otherwise we would be always a fraction behind them. We have to ignore the sound from the loudspeakers scattered throughout the grounds as the sound reaches us later than we make it. It has been a great experience.
Huia.

Thank you Shimms, Perhaps you would like to look up " Rodregez Guitar Concerto with Vocals) its really good.I,ve got it in a CD in the Car and play it often.hope you like it.**M**.ps. its a woman singing it. beautiful voice.

Thank you so much Alko for Grocer Jack..brings back so many memories...

You are welcome Jill,

memories for me too, :))

Shimms, found this, makes me laugh xxxx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVeSgGU5zqA

Good morning, good morning

xxxxxxxxxxxx

Hello Huia, Merlin, Jill and Alko

Sorry haven't been around ... xxx

Thank you Alko :) xxx

Happy Valentines Day everyone,

Found this and luvin it ... tis so happy, from the 1930's,

This is divine!

Leslie 'Hutch' Hutchinson - All I do is dream of you (1935)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPiOj7jzkm4&feature=related

All I do is dream of you the whole night through
with the dawn, I still go on, dreamin' of you!

You're every thought, you're every thing
you're every song I ever sing
summer, winter, autumn an' spring!

And were there more than twenty-four hours a day
they'd be spent in sweet content, dreamin' away!

When skies are gray, skies are blue
morning, noon an' night time too
all I do the whole day through is dream of you!

When skies are gray, skies are blue
morning, noon an' night time too
all I do the whole day through is dream of you!

Matchmaker Matchmaker and others ... adore this film. :))

Fiddler on the Roof

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnaZqHy2ZHE&feature=PlayList&p=42D8149DE9DD20FE&index=13&playnext=2&playnext_from=PL