Franz Biebl - Ave Maria

[llarian]

Bal Balducci, the father of a couple of my oldest and closest friends (the infamous Balducci twins) died of cancer the week before last. I of course went back to Port Angeles for the memorial, and was asked by the twins to sing an old favorite piece of mine during communion (works for me, I'd be afraid of getting struck by lightning if I

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[martygreene]

Thanks for posting that. I generally dislike Ave Maria, but I kinda needed that tonight. I dunno, weird headspace this evening.

I'd also never heard you sing before, though I knew you could. I guess that's kinda like getting you in photographs eh?

[llarian]

I'm not a huge fan of most Ave settings. I particularly dislike the Schubert one that everybody thinks of as "The" Ave Maria.

However, I absolutely adore the Biebl setting, its one of my favorite choir pieces.

And yeah, its something like that. :P I rarely sing anymore unless its in the shower or in my car either, although I wouldn't mind doing karaoke again sometime soon. :P

[martygreene]

I never really was into karaoke before, but I recently started going to a Tuesday night karaoke (which also happens to be lesbian night at the bar where it's held) which is run by one of my regular customers from the cafe. I actually have a lot of fun. Obviously I didn't go tonight, I got dragged to the local beer snob bar and excused myself early. Aformentioned weird headspace and all.

I've thought about recording a few songs that I am particularly fond of that I used to sing when I was still a vocal performance major. You might have just given me a kick in the seat. We will have to see.