[FormerACLUmember]

Pavoratti and (Yes, I swear) James Brown.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCIyzNISw1Q

[Free State Four]

There were the Beatles.

There were the Rolling Stones.

There was Morrison and Hendrix and Dylan and ....

But even combined, they pale in comparison to Pavarotti.

[alfie]

i will miss his fantastic voice. went to see him in chicago years back and was enthralled. only thing that bothered me and the rest of audience with his performance is that he didn’t end with “Nesun Dorma” his signature song and my favorite. so sad.

[MindBender26]

Pavoratti at his best:

Nessun Dorma

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VATmgtmR5o4

(remember the final assisination scene from “Sum of All Fears”?)

Ave Maria

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uYrmYXsujI&mode=related&search=

It’s like listening to God singing.

[TheOldSchool]

I grew up in Alabama listening to country music by the likes of Jones, Gosden and Haggard. One day in the middle 70s, I was flipping through the stations and stopped on a PBS station when I head a voice making the most beautiful sound I had ever heard. Thoughts of finding a radio station transmitting directly from heaven with a single angel singing popped into my thoughts. Pavarotti, singing Nesun Dorma, gave me goose bumps and changed my life forever. In that 3 minutes of listening to the aria, I began a journey of appreciation of the “art” of Opera and how to listen to, understand and appreciate it. If you understand the musical “instrument” of an opera is the human voice, you will gain a new appreciation of the musical presentation. In my opinion, Luciano Pavarotti was the best “instrument” that ever existed. Rest in Peace!

[firewalk]

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