[lit-ideas] Re: Speaking of Puccini ....



--- On Thu, 21/8/08, Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 
> "You tube" is what Paul Potts would have been
> called thirty years ago.

This is perhaps overly harsh (although all opera singers would have been called 
this thirty years ago, time has passed). Perhaps it is more accurate to say 
'Ein kleiner unscheinbarer bescheidener Mann mit einer fantastischen 
tiefsinnigen und großen Stimme, die unter die Haut geht und mitten ins Herz 
trifft'.

The video is moving but this is at least partly because of the "shy, humble man 
with an extraordinary talent" aspect. Some might say he 'has a face only a 
mother could love' but then there is a little mother in most of us, isn't 
there, awww?. Technically flawed then but movingly expressive.

That said, he did sell carphones for a living. Can we forgive? The debate 
continues.

Donal 


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