Luciano Pavarotti is dead

[jerry_picker]

Me too. RIP.

 

I remember thinking the same thing, and flashing back to his Christmas concert from the cathedral in Montreal back in the 70's. Maybe that's how people live on...in collective memory and their art.

[been_effected]

RIP buddy

[misterhinkydink]

A review from a recital at UCLA's Royce Hall Sept 25,1973.

 

[isaac42]

RIP. One of the great musicians of our time...

 

 

He never wrote his own songs.

[82Daion]

He never wrote his own songs.

 

 

So all classical performers are talentless hacks because they didn't write the repertoire?

 

BS.

[Bassius]

He never wrote his own songs.

 

ignorance?

[isaac42]

That was intended as a subtle dig at people who maintain that one cannot be a good musician unless one writes ones own material. Too subtle, perhaps.

 

Sometimes I'm so subtle even I don't know what I'm talking about!

 

Or maybe just terribly clumsy.

[J.]

He was an incredibly gifted operatic tenor, and exposed countless people to opera that otherwise would not have known it. RIP

[82Daion]

That was intended as a subtle dig at people who maintain that one cannot be a good musician unless one writes ones own material. Too subtle, perhaps. Sometimes I'm so subtle even I don't know what I'm talking about! Or maybe just terribly clumsy.

 

A would have come in handy.

 

[isaac42]

A would have come in handy.

 

Kills any chance of subtlety by making it obvious.