Given the bread baking post of yesterday,
I immediately recognized that Subject: as
funny for us in the easy-to-amuse crowd.

Anyway, same ds has also just started taking
voice lessons. Did I recently mention
the scary old lady that everyone but
me is enchanted with? The divergence
between mine and everyone else's
reaction amazes me. I suspect I'm
going to enjoy adjusting my attitude.

Anyway, he's just gotten two songs assigned,
both from Oliver. Obviously, "Consider
Yourself..." but I forget the other. (My
favorite is "Who Will Buy"; I think I spent
a very melancholy youth and I was most happy
when I realized how whatever happiness I
had wasn't going to last. Sick! :-)

Anyway, we watched the musical (w/Jack Wild,
I think) tonight. Ds has been a bit uneasy
about the whole singing thing, but was eager
to have a video night (w/pizza, no less!)
just because. The story doesn't end up
entirely happy, and the seriousness of it
profoundly affected him. Well, in any case
he now doesn't see his singing this kind of
stuff as sissy, but as something pretty
darned cool. Or profound, or significant,
or whatever.

Too cool! ___________________________Marty

P.S. I just want everyone to know that
these events are just a sampling of the
idyllic life that we experience every
day at Villa Addamiano. Yes, just about
every day brings oh, four or five wonderful
stories just like these. ;-)

P.P.S. Yeah, right.

P.P.P.S. I can't wait until he can sing
barbershop with me! Then maybe the girls
will deign to be dragged in.

Marty Carts wrote:

What's he worried about? "Sissy"? Kalaf, Radames, Manrico, Alfredo, Tonio??
Alice Cooper? What about that kid singing the Queen of the Night revenge
aria - Kanga posted this one
http://youtube.com/watch?v=urgANx5W...related&search=
And then there's the real stuff - bass and bass-baritone. Dmitri
Hvorostovsky. Nobody ever called Nicolai Ghiaurov sissy - Méphistophèle, Don
Carlo, Boris. Or Piero Cappuccilli ...