Loss of a Great
You have all probably heard by now the tragic loss of Luciano Pavarotti - he passed away yesterday from a battle with pancreatic cancer.
What a man. What a voice.
"I have had everything in life . . . And if everything is taken away from me, with God we're even and quits," he said in one of his last interviews. (what a quote...)
It is amazing when an icon leaves the living. It was the same with Princess Diana and Ana Nicole Smith (though to a much less degree). These people that live life so hugely suddenly leave us and create this hole that you never thought about.
They are so much part of the world that their loss is strongly felt.
I love Pavarotti's voice, the tenor, the passion. I think his voice was the one that attracted me to opera first. And then i heard him in concert in the three tenors concert and the love cemented.
9 comments:
Great loss indeed.
Do you really think that the other two are icons!!!
question, Fly jan: do you know what "Love's Labour's Lost" mean? I know it's a shakespear's play, but what does the name mean?
So what is the threshold in which you can complain about your life to God, and when you feel you are fortunate enough, and have had a good life?
@anonymous:
i think you can become an icon for different reasons. I would count the other two as icons because they each became the face of something - Princess Diana as the new face of royalty and Anna Nicole as the face of excess and probably playboy for a while.
@ styx:
well according to Nietzsche you have lived a happy life when you are willing to go thru it all over again. I think this is probably the threshold you are talking about. What do you think?
@ jeerjeerak:
Not sure....
Btw here is another interesting video:
This is Bocelli singing at Pavarotti's funeral:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL69Z0Ru5Z0
Also a beautiful piece of Pavarotti:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxyrphGgLH4
I started looking at the videos of Pavarotti and i can't stop now!!
here is some other really beautiful and famous songs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvLtEHONp3Y&mode=related&search=
I am not sure the Eternal Return was used as a parable for happiness...
where are you? long time no posts!
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