Nearly a month ago, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa announced the end of her opera career, saying "the work was "exhausting"". We only read about it just now in New Zealand's Herald on Sunday.
From the 70ies on Mrs. Te Kanawa has enjoyed the lovers of golden voice and thanks to recording will go on for our lifetime. In 1981 around 600 million people heard and saw her on TV singing at the wedding of the Prince of Wales and Lady Spencer.
Let us assure you that this lady of mixed Irish and Maori descent was one of the finest Mozart singers ever. We always particularly liked her as the Contessa Rosina di Almaviva in Le nozze die Figaro.
Mrs. Te Kanawa will sing a penultimate opera performance playing La duchesse de Crakentorp at New York's Met and a last one at the Cologne Opera in Germany next April when she will do the "Marschallin" in Richard Strauss' "Der Rosenkavalier". Now while we can certainly see and hear the talent and the qualities in that opus, but this is still not our kind of music and therefor it seems improbable that we will take the pains of getting the tickets and travelling to Cologne.
We need not be afraid though for Mrs. Te Kanawa will go on singing and touring on the much quieter concert scene. In August she insisted that though she has not sung opera since 2004 she had never retired.
"The press retired me," as she told the Telegraph in London. "I have not been singing opera very much but I still sing a lot of concerts."
Kiri Te Kanawa made more remarks on sustainable and shortsighted strategies in singing. Go read yourself.
If you did take a look at the mix of long, broad, short, slim and what have you tails, then you would know what Public Service TV really is. They paid and pay for it. With our money. Its ways are manyfold. But manifest its stored stuff it always does. After a while, that is. And as a surprise for most all.
You'll find Martin Sandberg in many places but About's got a photograph.
Please join in on the sunday morning prayer with Al, Linda and Wanda. We'd also like to encourage you to try the related video. It features the composer himself and Taylor Dayne.
People get ready, there's a train a-comin',
you don't need no baggage, you just get on board.
All you need is faith to hear the diesels hummin',
don't need no ticket, you just thank the Lord.
Seit ein paar Tagen ist der Sommer dieses Jahr jetzt vorbei. Um ihn noch einmal zu ehren, haben wir für Euch aus der WP eine Liste der Leute geklaut, die nachgewiesenermaßen George Gershwin's Arie aus der Oper Porgy & Bess nicht nur gecovert, sondern ihre Interpretationen auch mit Hilfe elektrischer Werkzeuge technisch reproduzierbar gemacht und die dadurch entstandenen produktfähigen Tonträger erfolgreich in den Handel gebracht haben. Let's hear it for them:
Doc Watson recorded 1973, appears on the album Elementary Doc Watson/Then and Now, re-released in 1997 on the Collectables label. Recorded 1987-91 Doc Watson and David Grisman and released on the album Doc and Dawg by Acoustic Disc in 1997. More recent recordings with grandson Richard Watson.
Scarlett Johansson for "Unexpected Dreams – songs from the stars" and later performed on Live EPs released at the time of her debut album Anywhere I Lay My Head
Janis Joplin released this song with Big Brother and the Holding Company. Some live versions have erroneously been credited with having Jimi Hendrix guesting on guitar, though in actuality the guitarists were James Gurley and Sam Andrew. [10]
Nach einer Abstimmung in der Redaktion ist, Billy Holiday hin, Sara Vaughan her, die beste Interpretation eindeutig von Janis Joplin vorgelegt worden. Hier ist der Beweis. Wie in der Liste bereits erwähnt, stammt das Gitarrenspiel nicht von James Hendrix sondern von James Gurley and Sam Andrew von Big Brother and the Holding Company.
Now you say your'e leavin' home 'cause you want to be alone.
Ain't it funny how you feel when you're findin' out its real?
Oh, to live on sugar mountain with the barkers and the colored balloons.
You can't be twenty on sugar mountain though your'e thinking that you're leaving there too soon, you're leaving there too soon.
In 1965 I was up in Canada, and there was a friend of mine up there who had just left a rock'n'roll band (...) he had just newly turned 21, and that meant he was no longer allowed into his favorite hangout, which was kind of a teeny-bopper club and once you're over 21 you couldn't get in there anymore; so he was really feeling terrible because his girlfriends and everybody that he wanted to hang out with, his band could still go there, you know, but it's one of the things that drove him to become a folk singer was that he couldn't play in this club anymore. But he was over the hill. So he wrote this song that was called "Oh to live on sugar mountain" which was a lament for his lost youth. (...) And I thought, God, you know, if we get to 21 and there's nothing after that, that's a pretty bleak future, so I wrote a song for him, and for myself just to give me some hope. It's called The Circle Game.
So the years spin by and now the boy is twenty.
Though his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true
there’ll be new dreams, maybe better dreams and plenty
before the last revolving year is through.
And the seasons they go round and round,
and the painted ponies go up and down,
we’re captive on the carousel of time.
We can’t return, we can only look behind from where we came
and go round and round and round in the circle game.
Yeah
Better and plenty. 'S what we gonna have. Didn't doubt it then, do not now. Good to know somebody else shares the opinion. Beautiful weather.
Du hast recht,
Universal-Genies brauchen wir echt keine mehr. Ich wollte eh nur sagen:
Things are going to slide, slide in all directions.
Won't be nothing, won't be nothing you....
by MaryW (31.10.24, 23:13)
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Hm. Ich glaub, da gibt es schon noch einige Kandidat*innen. Mir fällt spontan Lisz Hirn ein. Ich fürchte nur, die schaffen es nicht mehr, so....
Es gibt sogar
Verbrecher, die das ganze WE zusätzlich durcharbeiten, um Pegelkarten zu bauen. Das sind dann die allerletzten.
by gHack (17.09.24, 18:56)
Geändert
Inzwischen hat Herr Fidler den Fehler erkannt und korrigiert sowie sich inzwischen bei den LeserInnen entschuldigt.
Nur damit das nicht untergeht. Wir haben hier in der....
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There has been evidence
that the important and successful ideas in MSFT - like licensing the Unix source code in the 70ies and learning from it and licensing QDOS....
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Now
I think I maybe know what you meant. It is the present we know best and the future we invent. And history is mostly used....
by StefanL (02.01.22, 09:51)
???
Hey, it's just a phrase wishing to convey that you're always smarter after the event than before it.
by StefanL (28.12.21, 07:35)
Addendum
Oracle is now mentioned in the English Wikipedia article on teletext and even has its own article here. Electra has one too.
by MaryW (22.12.21, 07:11)
We have grossly erred
At least in point 5. We thought, people would have come to the conclusion that permanently listening to directive voices as an adult is so....
by MaryW (21.12.21, 07:42)
Did not want to spell the names out
Ingrid Thurnher should have been easy, as she is pictured in the article. Harald F. is an insider joke, the only media journalist in Austria,....
by StefanL (19.12.21, 08:45)
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with four letters it becomes easier though i am not sure with hafi… anyhoo, inms guessing acronyms or whatever this is.
*it’s not my steckenpferd
by tobi (24.11.21, 20:49)
Should be
pretty easy to guess from the context and image who HaFi and InTu are. Besides, thx for the hint to the open bold-tag.
by MaryW (22.10.21, 01:16)
Low hanging fruit
1 comment, lower geht es mathematisch schon aber psychosomatisch nicht.
by MaryW (15.10.21, 19:51)
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da ist wohl ein <b> offen geblieben…
und wer oder was sind HF und IT?
Freiwillige Feuerwehr
Wie ist das mit den freiwilligen und den professionellen Feuerwehren? Wenn 4 Häuser brennen und nur 2 Löschzüge da sind, dann gibt es doch eine....
by MaryW (22.07.21, 07:06)
Well
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by MaryW (18.07.21, 08:54)
Und noch etwas
Die Schutzkleidung ist ein großes Problem. Sie verhindert allzu oft, dass mann mit anderen Säugetieren gut umgehen kann.
by StefanL (26.05.19, 07:09)
Yeah
U get 1 big smile from me 4 that comment! And yes, i do not like embedded except it is good like this. It's like....
Nearly a month ago, Dame 
