Don.  It is 1:30Pm here in Illinois.  I just don't think I am getting you from the Clik on you have posted under your Last message above.  Have I missed you?

JeanneP are you getting it now? Try relinking. I noticed I lost my link briefly a while back and had to click the link to bring it back again.

I just tried it now and it's ok.   
http://tunein.com/radio/1069-The-X-s12279/

5x5 Don.

Nice to hear Winton. I guess he is keeping busy; haven't been following him for a while.

MarsGal Wynton has, in a way, given up classical music because of its comparative limited repertoire.  He's focused on the jazz genre and I believe he is also into compostion.

What a voice!

A 10y old... incredible.  Some kids are really very talented.

I shake my head in amazement, and more remarkable is the fact that this young lady seems to have vanished  from the artistic scene.

Maybe she performs locally?

LEHITRAOT! Thanks

Just getting back on computer and bye now Don is gone.  I can bring the station up now I think. Will try next Sunday. I moved it onto my Desktop

Festival Aviv of Jewish Dance in Mexico City

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5y8oWpVrkg&sns=em

So, Aviv has his own festival? 

I enjoyed the post, Bubble.

Bubble, I don't think I ever had that much energy in my life!  I enjoyed it very much.

Mary Ann

Aviv means spring season.  My Aviv was born in spring, Passover time

Just been listening to my favourite Tenor, he was my late fathers Idol so its runs in the family.........( Ave Maria....)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHZl1hpR5k0

Jackie that's lovely; it neve loses its charm

and a good actor too, photogenic! 

Mario Lanza.   He died so young.  His wife died 5 months later in her 30s also.  Even his children died pretty young.

inger, Actor. First singer to earn Gold Records (over 1 million copies sold) in both classical and pop categories. Born Alfred Arnold Cocozza in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he left high school early to work in his uncle's grocery store, until he auditioned for a music scholarship in 1942. During World War II, he was drafted into the Army, and served until the end of the war. His wife, Betty Hicks Lanza, was the younger sister of his Army buddy, Bert Hicks, and they married shortly after Mario's release from the Army; together they had four children: Colleen, Elisa, Damon, and Marc. , ome, Italy, he undertook a rigorous diet, using barbiturates to help him lose weight, which contributed to his heart attack and death at age 38. His wife, shattered by his death, died five months later. etty Lanza killed herself in grief, leaving behind four children

Here are some more questions and answers from a close friend of Mario Lanza who he said of him " you're my only brother. " This gives us more insight into his troubled life.....Link.....

http://mariolanza.net/askterry.html

Hi Jackie
I prefer the English tenor Paul Potts

Kelly

Jackie, JeanneP I must confess that I have not followed Mario Lanza's career as closely as I should have, so your posts have enlightened me greatly into his tragically short, but productive life. Thanks for posting.

Hi Kelly I'm inclined to think that comparisons between Paul Potts and Mario Lanza are unfair.
Potts is a rank amateur with no formal training whatsoever. He has a remarkable voice, but its limitations, because of no proper development, restrict his talents to amateur shows and local concert halls.

Mario Lanza had formal training and also had operatic experience.

Likewise, I would say the same thing if you were to compare Mario Lanza with Pavarotti, for example. Pavarotti was light years ahead of Lanza, in every aspect of performance, experience, and training, all of which would make comparisons between the two as also unfair.

Good Evening Radioman

Kelly

I still miss the sounds of Pavarotti. Good we can still get these singers on CD. in order to keep them.  Each of these men had such voices, along with others who had good training.Even the ones from many years ago.  Recording their voices can now be heard and sound made much better.
With the shows that have been on TV over the past year. Bring these young singer to the front. Doubt they will become the famous as the ones in the past.  Is the training out there for them now? How many of the young are now buying the Classical music that we bought years ago. I listen to what some of the kids are spending now  and listening to.  Awful. But that is their music.

Good training is essential to develop right breathing and learn not to stress the voice.
Those talent shows are  good for discovering who has the potential and a natural good voice.
No doubt those programs are fun to watch.  I wonder if any one in S@F ever participate to a TV recording like that or maybe competed to some game program?

Illy my daughter came second in "the weakest link" just to be told by the winner that the win had been rigged.  She was so disappointed then.  But because of that moment of fame, she was recognized a few time while driving and waiting at the red light: "hey, I saw you on TV!".

I think that a lot of those type shows are rigged.  Look how now they have proven that many from years ago such as "The Millionare " were Rigged. Same with these shows now that put the families on.  I just never watch that type of TV
Now what was the "Weakest LInk?"

It was a trivia or general knowledge show where each time one participant was eliminated as "weak" by the others, until 2 were left and then the organizers chose the best one of the 2 if they both answered correctly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weakest_Link_%28UK_game_show%29

That could have been a interesting show. Would learn a lot from it.   I use to like the one we had here. Was it "How to be a millionaire" or something like that. Played alone but has a choice of questions. I find I am not as smart as I think when watching those shows.