Mary Kunz Goldman was for over 10 years the classical music critic for The Buffalo News, the daily paper of Buffalo, N.Y. She is also the authorized biographer of the great American pianist Leonard Pennario.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Sing it loud
On my Leonard Pennario Web log I found myself reflecting on how much I love Jussi Bjorling singing "O Holy Night." This is one of the greatest versions of this hymn -- which was, I have to say, one of Pennario's favorites. Bjorling has that big, big voice. It is as if the song just pours out of him!
You can imagine a cartoon, this big bubble. Sing it, Jussi! How exhilarating it must feel to sing like that. To have the music just pouring out of you.
Also there is "The Boar's Head Carol" as posted by my Buffalo News colleague Doug Turner on Facebook.
Is that magnificent or what? I love that song. You picture them in a medieval feast hall, carrying in this boar's head.
Here is the version I grew up with. The recording of the song, not the boar's head.
And the inimitable Steeleye Span.
Christmas is a time to sit on our kiesters, as we say here in Buffalo, and waste time listening to music we know inside out, preferably with a cocktail in hand.
The Return of the Great White Heron
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The heron is back!
I am not sure if it is a Great White Heron or a Great Blue Heron. It is a
kind of bluish white. I saw it this morning at Hoyt Lake.
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