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About LinkBacksla boheme is a track that i heard today and i really liked it., i wondred if you could name some simular songs that i may like?
Rob
la boheme is a track that i heard today and i really liked it., i wondred if you could name some simular songs that i may like?
Rob
Have you seen the film on Edith Piaf? If not, please do - it's a wonderful tribute which handles very sensitively the many tragedies of this great artist's life. I remember once hearing Charles Aznavour speak of her influence. Two wonderful singers who allow the songs to sell themselves and this world is a much better place for them naving been a part of it.
Piaf songs I adore : Mon Dieu and Hymne a l'amore - especially Mon Dieu. i seem to remember reading once that Marguerite Monnot was a student of Cortot. Yes/no??
My favourite Aznavour’s song is « Hier encore : »
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=8yHldMaLzG0
Great song. Bit depressing though, in a nostalgic sort of way.
''Music, I feel, should be emotional first and intellectual second.'' - Maurice Ravel
''The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.'' - Michael Jackson
the three hundred times you listen it, it becomes a bit less depressive…Originally Posted by rojo
Sorrow doesn't really figure for me in music - even though things can be overwhelmingly sad. I hear it all as being just beautiful and poetic.
Goodness, yes. Mon Dieu is just heart-rending – the epitome of how Piaf just bared her soul in her music.
And as for Je ne regrette rien, I intend that to be played at my funeral and I intend to make absolutely sure that it's true.
I think a lot of the heart-rending threads in Mon Dieu has to do with the actual angst of vocal line against the descending choral accompaniment - or something there-a-bouts. Nureyev once said you must spray everything you do with your blood - I think Piaf did this in her singing - as you say, she bared her soul. Still, artists aren't necessarily their work and they can consciously "will" things also. Regrets? I have none either - today is yesterday's tomorrow - we are all part of some bigger picture and thank God Piaf has been a part of ours!
Can I share my website with you:
www.phillipwilcher.com
I hope you enjoy it! Have you seen the recent film on Piaf's life? Take some tissues with you if you haven't!
I finally saw this a few weeks ago – absolutely superb. The final scenes of her on stage are incredible. The music, of course, is wonderful and Marion Cotillard really deserves an Oscar.
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