RIP - Page 11

Dude · 05-17-2012, 04:06 PM

Dude · 05-17-2012, 04:29 PM

Glenn · 05-17-2012, 04:37 PM

Riposa in Pace Bella Diva

Parker · 05-17-2012, 05:51 PM

RIP Donna

DapperButch · 05-17-2012, 07:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Parker

RIP Donna

I had this on an LP (obviously) with the record player arm set up to repeat...same song over and over and over again. Played it day after day after day...

puddin' · 05-18-2012, 12:05 AM

Parker · 05-18-2012, 04:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DapperButch

I had this on an LP (obviously) with the record player arm set up to repeat...same song over and over and over again. Played it day after day after day...

I bought it on Amazon a few months ago for my MP3 player and when it comes on, I always repeat it several times.

deedarino · 05-18-2012, 08:15 AM

As a young, aspiring singer, she was my idol. I sang every song she did hundreds of times...

I was out, loud, and proud....of Disco

...will be hittin up itunes today.

*Anya* · 05-18-2012, 08:58 AM

Omg, she so reminded me of my disco days!

I still remember dancing with such joy to her songs for hours with my first girlfriend until the clubs closed @ 2:00AM!

I did not even "know" her but feel really sad at her passing.

As far as I am concerned, disco never died and never will.

RIP Donna.

Kobi · 05-18-2012, 11:17 AM

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the German baritone whose beautiful voice and mastery of technique made him the 20th century’s pre-eminent interpreter of art songs, died on Friday at his home in Bavaria. He was 86.

Mr. Fischer-Dieskau was by virtual acclamation one of the world’s great singers from the 1940s to his official retirement in 1992, and an influential teacher and orchestra conductor for many years thereafter.

He was also a formidable industry, making hundreds of recordings that pretty much set the modern standard for performances of lieder, the musical settings of poems first popular in the 18th and 19th centuries. His output included the many hundreds of Schubert songs appropriate for the male voice, the songs and song cycles of Schumann and Brahms, and those of later composers like Mahler, Shostakovich and Hugo Wolf. He won two Grammy Awards, in 1971 for Schubert lieder and in 1973 for Brahms’s “Die Schöne Magelone.”

Mr. Fischer-Dieskau had sufficient power for the concert hall, and for substantial roles in his parallel career as a star of European opera houses. But he was essentially a lyrical, introspective singer whose effect on listeners was not to nail them to their seatbacks, but rather to draw them into the very heart of song.

The pianist Gerald Moore, who accompanied many great artists of the postwar decades, said Mr. Fischer-Dieskau had a flawless sense of rhythm and “one of the most remarkable voices in history — honeyed and suavely expressive.” Onstage, he projected a masculine sensitivity informed by a cultivated upbringing and by dispiriting losses in World War II: the destruction of his family home, the death of his feeble brother in a Nazi institution, induction into the Wehrmacht when he had scarcely begun his voice studies at the Berlin Conservatory.

His performances eluded easy description. Where reviewers could get the essence of a Pavarotti appearance in a phrase (the glories of a true Italian tenor!), a Fischer-Dieskau recital was akin to a magic show, with seamless shifts in dynamics and infinite shadings of coloration and character.

He had the good luck to age well, too. In 1988, at 62, he sang an all-Schumann program at Carnegie Hall, where people overflowed onto the stage to hear him. Donal Henahan, then the chief music critic of The New York Times, noted that Mr. Fischer-Dieskau’s voice had begun to harden in some difficult passages — but also that he was tall and lean and handsomer than ever, and had lost none of his commanding presence.

Mr. Fischer-Dieskau described in his memoir “Reverberations” (1989) how his affinity for lieder had been formed in childhood. “I was won over to poetry at an early age,” he wrote. “I have been in its thrall all my life because I was made to read it, because it gave me pleasure, and because I eventually came to understand what I was reading.”

He discerned, he said, that “music and poetry have a common domain, from which they draw inspiration and in which they operate: the landscape of the soul.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/19/ar...at-86.html?amp

Mr Nice Guy · 05-18-2012, 02:23 PM

RIP to the cat I tried to rescue. Her name was Babyluv. She was orange and white stripe. I found her hungry outside my condo. I had her for a couple of months and started noticing changes. She passed away today from cancer. I loved her. It's always hard to lose those you love be it pet or human. I know she's not in pain anymore and that's all that matters.

CherylNYC · 05-18-2012, 04:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kobi

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the German baritone whose beautiful voice and mastery of technique made him the 20th century’s pre-eminent interpreter of art songs, died on Friday at his home in Bavaria. He was 86.

Mr. Fischer-Dieskau was by virtual acclamation one of the world’s great singers from the 1940s to his official retirement in 1992, and an influential teacher and orchestra conductor for many years thereafter.

He was also a formidable industry, making hundreds of recordings that pretty much set the modern standard for performances of lieder, the musical settings of poems first popular in the 18th and 19th centuries. His output included the many hundreds of Schubert songs appropriate for the male voice, the songs and song cycles of Schumann and Brahms, and those of later composers like Mahler, Shostakovich and Hugo Wolf. He won two Grammy Awards, in 1971 for Schubert lieder and in 1973 for Brahms’s “Die Schöne Magelone.”

Mr. Fischer-Dieskau had sufficient power for the concert hall, and for substantial roles in his parallel career as a star of European opera houses. But he was essentially a lyrical, introspective singer whose effect on listeners was not to nail them to their seatbacks, but rather to draw them into the very heart of song.

The pianist Gerald Moore, who accompanied many great artists of the postwar decades, said Mr. Fischer-Dieskau had a flawless sense of rhythm and “one of the most remarkable voices in history — honeyed and suavely expressive.” Onstage, he projected a masculine sensitivity informed by a cultivated upbringing and by dispiriting losses in World War II: the destruction of his family home, the death of his feeble brother in a Nazi institution, induction into the Wehrmacht when he had scarcely begun his voice studies at the Berlin Conservatory.

His performances eluded easy description. Where reviewers could get the essence of a Pavarotti appearance in a phrase (the glories of a true Italian tenor!), a Fischer-Dieskau recital was akin to a magic show, with seamless shifts in dynamics and infinite shadings of coloration and character.

He had the good luck to age well, too. In 1988, at 62, he sang an all-Schumann program at Carnegie Hall, where people overflowed onto the stage to hear him. Donal Henahan, then the chief music critic of The New York Times, noted that Mr. Fischer-Dieskau’s voice had begun to harden in some difficult passages — but also that he was tall and lean and handsomer than ever, and had lost none of his commanding presence.

Mr. Fischer-Dieskau described in his memoir “Reverberations” (1989) how his affinity for lieder had been formed in childhood. “I was won over to poetry at an early age,” he wrote. “I have been in its thrall all my life because I was made to read it, because it gave me pleasure, and because I eventually came to understand what I was reading.”

He discerned, he said, that “music and poetry have a common domain, from which they draw inspiration and in which they operate: the landscape of the soul.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/19/ar...at-86.html?amp

What a tremendous loss!

Teddybear · 05-20-2012, 05:02 PM

Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees

Loved their music RIP Robin

The_Lady_Snow · 05-20-2012, 05:19 PM

girl_dee · 05-20-2012, 05:23 PM

OMG i have been listening and downloading their music all week, i had NO idea he died, i just posted a song on youtube, i had no idea. Freaky. RIP a very talented man.

Rocket · 05-20-2012, 05:29 PM

RIP Robin Gibb
I couldn't be a fan of Donna Summer after the way she treated the gay community, which had been her biggest following. Read- http://www.donna-tribute.com/articles/80/advocate2.htm

musicman · 05-20-2012, 05:50 PM

I had the honor of briefly working with Donna, her sweet husband Bruce and his writing partner Nathan.

Sweet lady will surly be missed. It's been a bad year of losing some great artists.

Wolfsong · 05-20-2012, 05:52 PM

I am so completely bummed today. Saturday Night Fever is one of my guilty pleasures

SnackTime · 05-20-2012, 07:11 PM

Rest In Peace

Robin Gibb

firegal · 05-20-2012, 07:25 PM

Wow cancer claims 2 more.... crap

Donna Summer and Robin Gibb.... very talented artists that so many of us danced to.....and maybe did a lil bit of fooling around to.......

Their incredible songs! RIP

05-18-2012, 12:05 AM	#206
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05-18-2012, 08:15 AM	#208
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05-18-2012, 08:58 AM	#209
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05-18-2012, 11:17 AM	#210
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05-18-2012, 02:23 PM	#211
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05-20-2012, 05:02 PM	#213
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05-20-2012, 05:29 PM	#216
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05-20-2012, 05:50 PM	#217
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05-20-2012, 05:52 PM	#218
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05-20-2012, 07:11 PM	#219
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05-20-2012, 07:25 PM	#220
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