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Mendalla said:
And a lot of control and training to keep it tonally correct throughout a wide octave range. That's where I find Bocelli falls down for me. He lacks the range of a truly great operatic tenor like Pavarotti and tends to get a bit husky in the lower registers of his range. There's a recording of them singing Miserere together at one of the Pavarotti and friends concerts and even though Pav was near the end of his career (and, sadly, life) at that point, he still has both more power and more range than Bocelli.

As for him being a classical tenor, I'm not sure. He's great at pop tenor repertoire like O Sole Mio! and the contemporary pop music he sings, but I've never heard him do classical lieder or religious works. I imagine he's good at it, but I just haven't heard enough of him doing it. I have heard him sing Rudolfo in La Boheme and some arias from other operas which is what led to conclude he isn't really a good operatic singer.
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I've got most of his early CDs, thanks to my Mom; there's 2 or 3 classical ones. And of course, singing opera on a CD and singing opera to a live house are also two different things...
 
Mendalla said:
And a lot of control and training to keep it tonally correct throughout a wide octave range. That's where I find Bocelli falls down for me. He lacks the range of a truly great operatic tenor like Pavarotti and tends to get a bit husky in the lower registers of his range. There's a recording of them singing Miserere together at one of the Pavarotti and friends concerts and even though Pav was near the end of his career (and, sadly, life) at that point, he still has both more power and more range than Bocelli.

As for him being a classical tenor, I'm not sure. He's great at pop tenor repertoire like O Sole Mio! and the contemporary pop music he sings, but I've never heard him do classical lieder or religious works. I imagine he's good at it, but I just haven't heard enough of him doing it. I have heard him sing Rudolfo in La Boheme and some arias from other operas which is what led to conclude he isn't really a good operatic singer.
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Perhaps his vessel doesn't have the proper ribbing?
 
Interesting to see the discussion re Bocelli - I don't know anything really about opera! And it was more Sarah Brightman's voice that drew me to that piece :-) I do love listening to her from time to time, although I think she was more classically trained but in a music theatre perspective, rather than opera?

Now what about Measha Brueggergosman? She seems pretty amazing and one who has certainly moved into realms other than opera. It's interesting to hear her interviewed & speaking about her approach to performance. Too many possibilities to choose just one or two pieces to post here - but maybe others have a fav?
 
Measha's quite an incredible lady. I have yet to hear her singing anything badly.

Sarah is the female Bocelli. Great pop soprano, fantastic at musical theatre but the few times I have heard her try opera arias have sent me scrambling to cleanse my palate with some Jessye Norman or Anna Netrebko.
 
Good thread @Mendalla...I mentioned Chris Whitley on Room for All...was reminiscing about way back when I saw him play at a club in Seattle. He's passed on, but his daughter is an amazing musician herself, with a voice even better and more soulful than her dad's. This is Trixie Whitley:

 
All I Have to Do is Dream ... fearfully with aspirations? Dreams do not aspire as there is no material substance to eM ... sort as indigenous thought ... metaphysics in parallel! Some items carry active volume, and mass with passive sense ... something you have to grow into as painful ... as a rose with thorns under the blossom ... Eros? Tis not all heaven ...
 
Is wood stock like the epistemic, or being up the stump ... hung up on the alternate awareness without spectre or variance?

Thus eternal change ... even if denied by the institutionalized ... Murphy will break out ... gone over the hill ...

Happens when the water works fail ... or are ripped out of the floor ... remember that scene?
 
You know, the deaths of a Bowie or a Prince are tragic in their way, but at least they had successful careers spanning decades. 22 year-old Christina Grimmie began her career doing covers on Youtube, appeared on the TV talent series The Voice to great acclaim, and looked to have a great music career ahead of her. All that ended last night and that's a tragedy of another level than the deaths of veteran artists. She was shot at an autograph signing after a concert and died later in hospital. Her brother jumped the gunman, preventing other deaths save that of the killer, who apparently shot himself. But with that bullet, a promising career ended and songs that might have been sung, never will be.

I had never heard of her until the news broke today but listening to a few of her performances on Youtube, I wish I had found her earlier.

Her one official video for a song of her own:


Rest in peace, Christina, and my thoughts and prayers to those grieving your death.
 
One more Christina Grimmie video. This cover was done just a month ago with the band that she was touring with when she was murdered. James Bay's "Let It Go" has been popular among the Youtube set and I think this is one of the best covers out of that.

 
Supergroups are a mixed blessing. Sometimes, the confluence of multiple established artists results in brilliance (Traveling Wilburys). Other times, they kind of fall flat (GTR, which should have been brilliant as it brought together Steve Howe and Steve Hackett, two of prog rock's best guitar players, but was kind of vanilla prog rock as was Asia after its first album).

This one seems to be leaning to the former. Neko Case of the group New Pornographers and various solo efforts, k.d. lang, and Laura Viers teaming up as Case\Lang\Viers.

No official videos yet, just their record company releasing tracks from the album as audio-only tracks. Here's the playlist.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ7QPuvv91JuRQnExxpaIFwt3usEeZF2N
 
A young band that I have admired for some time now is Against the Current. Their chief attraction is powerful lead singer Chrissy Costanza, but the two guys backing her (Dan Gow on guitar and Will Ferri on percussion) are both extremely talented in their own right.



 
Do fish go against de floe ... and thus the Hebrew symbol (yo 'm kippur's) of the contrary mined to the powerfully Jew 's ide ... the suites of grapes wrath ... like a wreath about the neck as a mile stone ... a tattooed mark Eire?

And God's soul is chaos after observing what he'd done to the previous singular piece ... now it all come apart ... like that young lass of Yiddish origins ... AB origin-ale as quantum and frothy chance? We thank thou for Red Roses and Yellow Balloons ... recessional bubbles? Tis a devilish myth to unravel about a dark thing railroaded and fast tracked by an isolated bean ... but even then it took Tous! Some say troth in the coupling ...
 
New songs from two of my YouTube faves:

Against the Current:


And multitalented dancer/violinist Lindsay Stirling:

 
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