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06 Sep 2007, 4:52 pm

Not much of an opera fan myself except for a few by Puccini, "Turandot", "Tosca" and "La Boheme"...
But I loved Pavarotti's singing, the other tenors were great but when Luciano sang you knew
it was him.



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06 Sep 2007, 5:02 pm

Exactly!

He was the kind of person whose voice you would recognize even though you weren't a big fan of opera.

He will be missed!


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06 Sep 2007, 5:33 pm

I'm wondering about moral responsibility - what would his be? He touched billions of people, sometimes elevated them to sacred realms (I speak from experience), he comforted the sick, the grieving, the homeless - and that's just the people that he'd never heard of. How can a human being be responsible for all that?

Also re his age. Ahem. Yesterday I turned 57. I am a young whippersnapper and don't anybody forget it. Also his parents lived into their 90's.

And thanks for posting the Ave Maria.

I might as well keep rambling. Something changes in the universe when somebody dies. Something shifts, winks out, doesn't feel right. My only contact with him is through the media and he is as available to me today as last year. But his death isn't about me. How about him? He loved life and used it so well, isn't it sad he wasn't granted more of it? And his family - with parents like his, they might have expected him to have another 30 years. And the world would have been a better place if he had.



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06 Sep 2007, 5:38 pm

Yes, it seems like in this day and age people believe they will live longer when they turn 40!

That's another good thing about life today!


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06 Sep 2007, 5:51 pm

R.I.P. Pavarotti. Great Opera singer, who will no doubt be missed by his fans.


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06 Sep 2007, 8:22 pm

Indeed!


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07 Sep 2007, 12:50 pm

Anubis wrote:
R.I.P. Pavarotti. Great Opera singer, who will no doubt be missed by his fans.
For sure in the end.


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07 Sep 2007, 1:15 pm

How do you know that?

He couldn't even sing towards the end of his life!


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07 Sep 2007, 1:25 pm

larsenjw92286 wrote:
How do you know that?

He couldn't even sing towards the end of his life!
His voice has been missed for sometime and We will never hear that voice again unless You have Him on CD.


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07 Sep 2007, 2:27 pm

Did he have the same condition as Julie Andrews?


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08 Sep 2007, 9:58 am

I was saddened in my Aspie way when someone that was eulogizing him stated -

"Of all the wonderful things he was in his life, his stellar voice and career, the best thing he will be remembered for was 'he was a warm hearted human being!"

ok, that means being a 'warm hearted' human being is all that matters. My Aspie nature would never allow that to be on MY tombstone!

Merle



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08 Sep 2007, 9:59 am

Yes, that is very true!


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08 Sep 2007, 12:06 pm

sinsboldly wrote:
I was saddened in my Aspie way when someone that was eulogizing him stated -

"Of all the wonderful things he was in his life, his stellar voice and career, the best thing he will be remembered for was 'he was a warm hearted human being!"

ok, that means being a 'warm hearted' human being is all that matters. My Aspie nature would never allow that to be on MY tombstone!

Merle


I think you're more warm-hearted than you know, Merle.


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08 Sep 2007, 2:20 pm

How do you know that?


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