Tom Waits...music file

Listen and enjoy Tom Waits

Ek het nie geweet van die musiek van Tom Waits, totdat iemand my van hom vertel het, en die liedjie is pragtig. Die woorde is sommer ook net hier!

Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You

Tom Waits

Well I hope that I don't fall in love with you
'Cause falling in love just makes me blue,
Well the music plays and you display
your heart for me to see,
I had a beer and now I hear
you calling out for me
And I hope that I don't fall in love with you.

Well the room is crowded, there's people everywhere
And I wonder, should I offer you a chair?
Well if you sit down with this old clown,
take that frown and break it,
Before the evening's gone away,
I think that we could make it,
And I hope that I don't fall in love with you.

I can see that you are lonesome just like me,
and it being late, you'd like some some company,
Well I've had two, I look at you,
and you look back at me,
The guy you're with has up and split,
the chair next to you's free,
And I hope that you don't fall in love with me.
And I hope that you don't fall in love with me.

Now it's closing time, the music's fading out
Last call for drinks, I'll have another stout.
Turn around to look at you,
you're nowhere to be found,
I search the place for your lost face,
guess I'll have another round
And I think that I just fell in love with you.
Copyright© 2000-2007

When there is faith - Robert Le Noury
When one door closes another opens,
when you finish one page there is another,
when one shooting star fades you see the moon.

There is always a light at the end of the tunnel.
There is always a silver lining around that cloud.
There is a reason for each season.

When you ask it shall be given,
when cry you will be comforted,
when you rejoice the Angels sing.

There are more answers than questions.
There are more smiles than frowns.
There is a reason for living.

Faith teaches us these truths.
Faith holds fast when others dispair.
Faith is true when all else is vain.
"Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon.
Where there is doubt, faith."
Saint Francis of Assisi (1181 - 1226)

NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

This is so sad!
Pavarotti had been hospitalized in stable condition with a fever in August and underwent surgery too....He was really one of my favourite opera singers...I don't like opera that much...but I LOVE Pavarotti's!! It is VERY sad news to know he's died....
Read here about the fewer and cancer surgery...

ROME (Reuters)

Like most Italian boys, Luciano Pavarotti used to dream of being a football star. Instead, he rose to opera stardom and entranced stadium audiences with his singing voice rather than his football skills.
(Advertisement)Pavarotti died in the early hours of Thursday. He was 71.
The rotund, black-bearded tenor, regarded by many as the greatest of his generation, shot to fame with a stand-in appearance at London's Covent Garden in 1963 and soon had critics gushing about his voluminous voice.
Perhaps his biggest gift to the music world was when he teamed up with Spanish stars Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras at the 1990 soccer World Cup in Italy and introduced operatic classics to an estimated 800 million people in TV coverage around the globe.
Sales of opera albums shot up after the gala concert in Rome's Baths of Caracalla and strains of Puccini's "Nessun Dorma" became as much a feature of soccer fever as the usual more raucous stadium chants.
Earlier in his life, Pavarotti's parents wanted him to have a steady job and for a while he worked as an insurance salesman and teacher.
He started singing on the operatic circuit and his big break came thanks to another Italian opera great, Giuseppe di Stefano, who dropped out of a London performance of "La Boheme" in 1963.
Covent Garden had lined up "this large young man" as a possible stand-in and a star was born.
In 1972 he famously hit nine high C's in a row in "Daughter of the Regiment" at New York's Metropolitan Opera, which he referred to as "my home".
Thirty years later, Pavarotti was still one of the highest paid classical singers even though his public performances were fewer and further between.
FAREWELL TOUR
Medical problems beset "Big Luciano" in the final years of his career, forcing him to cancel several dates of his marathon worldwide farewell tour.
In July 2006 he underwent surgery in New York for pancreatic cancer and retreated to his villa in the Italian city of Modena. He said he hoped to resume the tour soon but had to cancel his first planned public appearance a few months later.
"I have had everything in life, really everything. And if everything is taken away from me, with God we're even and quits," he said in one of his last interviews.
On the few occasions he performed in the past decade, Pavarotti was criticised for his lack of mobility, sometimes seating his large frame centre stage to belt out the arias.
He was also criticised for dropping out of operas diva-like at the last minute and for failing to hit all the notes, prompting critics to say his voice no longer had the stamina to perform more than a few pieces at a time.
In 1992, he admitted miming to recorded music during what was supposed to be a live concert because he had not prepared. He offered to pay the BBC the full cost of the broadcast.
But fans never stopped praising him.
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Radio Stations

South African Radio Stations, follow this link if you are interested. It is Steve Hofmeyr's Blog, one of our BEST artists in SA. Belgium artist, Dana Winner, has performed with him in SA a few years ago in Sun City. His blog is mainly Afrikaans, because Steve is a fighter for Afrikaans (and a BIG one for our country), but you will find a lot of English pages/bits too. He is a singer/writer/poet/actor -- very talented and also, lately started to negotiate with Thabo Mbeki about Afrikaans and the change of Street names in our country. Very silly to try "change" history to suit you, hey! They change street names, city names, airport names, just show you what kind of people are in charge of the country....

http://stevehofmeyr.co.za/blog/?page_id=236

Opera Singer

Mimi Coertse, our beloved opera singer!
(born 12th June...1932 in Durban, SA)

Early life

Coertse, born in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, matriculated at the Helpmekaar Girls High School in Johannesburg. She left South Africa in September 1953 for London, and then via The Hague to Vienna. In January 1954 she started training with Maria Hittorff and Josef Witt.

Opera career

Coertse made her debut in January 1955 as the First Flower Girl in Wagner's Parsifal at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Karl Bohm conducting. She also sang in Basle at the Teatro San Carlo. On 17 March 1956 she made her debut at the Vienna State Opera as Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute (Mozart) and remained with the Vienna State Opera until 1978.

Coertse sang the soprano part in Bach's Matthäus-Passion at Fritz Wunderlich's first appearance at Vienna in 1958, when he did the tenor arias with Julius Patzak singing the Evangelist. In 1958, Coertse and Fritz Wunderlich again worked together at the Aix-en-Provence festival in Die Zauberflöte. In 1965, she sang Konstanze in Werner Düggelin's controversial production of Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Vienna State Opera which also featured Fritz Wunderlich as Belmonte.

Read more here:
http://saoperasingers.homestead.com/Mimi_Coertse_Bio.html

and photos here:
http://saoperasingers.homestead.com/Mimi_Coertse.html

and other South African opera singers....

http://saoperasingers.homestead.com/index.html