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.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
The man with the mustache
Today I was listening to Chanticleer, the men's chorus from the Bay Area, and I was thinking: Although I have seen this group live several times, I could not tell you what songs I heard.
But oh, I remember that one singer's mustache.
That I do remember!
And I was thinking, what brand recognition. You think of this chorus, Chanticleer, and you go, "Oh, I remember that group. That's the group with the guy with the Salvador Dali mustache."
In the video up above you see the stash at about 1:39.
And here at about 2:52. I am jumping the gun on Christmas!
Wow, they can sound like a chorus of girls, you know? Once in the paper I speculated on how they did that. I thought the bass voices held their thunder so the higher voices could soar. Sometimes I wonder if they overdo that effect.
Well, if they do, they have that one mustache, to compensate.
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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