Renee Fleming - wow!

[Coventina]

Can't help but wonder....

Who would be willing to sing at Dump's service?

Meatloaf? The Nuge?



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[nolabear]

1. Right? She's a treasure. And I'm in tears.

[Coventina]

3. Who could have a dry eye after that?

[HipChick]

2. Danny Boy did me in...

[Coventina]

4. Me too

[frazzled]

9. Me too

That was the favorite song of my dear long-gone Hungarian Jewish grandmother. What she found in that Irish ballad to relate to, I’m not sure, but I have such strong memories of her playing it on her old phonograph over and over again, with tears in her eyes. I thought of my beloved grandmother when the great Renee Fleming sang that so resplendently just now.

It is a song to be sung by a woman to her son departing for war or her husband leaving this earth. That was the source of the tears in Mrs. McCain’s eyes during that song. It’s a song of love and loss.

[malaise]

5. That was lovely

But I was singing Oh Donny Boy
...it's you must go... :

[mobeau69]

6. Beautiful.

Cindy was struggling hard to keep her composure.

[vlyons]

7. Tears still rolling down my cheeks

Renee Fleming and Barack Obama Wow!!!

[lindysalsagal]

8. And there, ladies and gentlmen, is what we call singing. Trained, classical, the "fine art."

Popular music is fun, but you need serious classical training to reach that kind of emotion.

[NotASurfer]

10. Mrs Surfer used to do solos at memorials like that

Hard to to; if you do it well, it's a thing of beauty that moves people to tears. Then you respond to that by starting to cry as well. You have to practice the song until there are no more tears, then it's still a struggle to get through

This was done well. Her feeling was that Renee Fleming was right on the edge getting through, and might well have broken down for a few minutes afterwards. That was incredible for non-musical me, really impressed her in a way I can't describe