After that game last night and the one before

I shall just quote this:

"Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world.

I'm no longer on earth"  
Edith Piaf "La Mome" who never regretted anything ;-)!

Julius Caesar said that

"Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true"

And from Tacitus comes this bit of wisdom:

 

"Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader".

Nothing more to be said. Have a great weekend, chers readers

Names - Voices from the Past..

just the other day someone mentioned Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer (Umm -variable spelling-means Mother, btw).
That sent me back in time to the 50's in Vienna.
Friends from the Middle East kept playing her songs for me .. mesmerizing, strange, unfathomable sounds.
And into my head pop other names:
Edith Piaf - what huge sound emerged from this tiny Chanteuse of Paris?
Zarah Leander, a voice a Basso Profundo could envy ;-)!
The "Nuschler" Arch-Viennese comic singer/actor Hans Moser.
I have already bloged about the Incan Yma Sumac, with a range that defies belief.
And Elena Nikolaidi.. Greek opera singer, nick-named "Sopralto" (Soprano-Contralto-alas the recording is mono)
And then "Missa Luba"...African choirboys singing Mass. Incredible beauty from afar.
Am sure I can come up with many more, but above are a few clips to enjoy and be awed!