I'm having one of my Musical Journey evenings. Where I'm listening to one thing, and it leads to another, and another, and I end up going to bed too late having spent too much money.
I listen to a lot of music while researching, so sometimes I go through under-listened-to parts of my library, to weed out stuff I don't want.
1. Tonight I was going through Céline Dion's D'Elles--a collection of songs by women songwriters. One of the songs is about Maria Callas and starts with a clip of Callas singing.
2. And I thought--do I own any Callas? (Just one song.) So I had to find a Callas "best of" to buy.
3. Which got me youtubing about, listening to various sopranos.
4. Which made me think of Charlotte Church and her version of "The Water is Wide" (my fave arrangement), which led to listening to various versions of the song.
5. Which landed me on a Joan Baez & Indigo Girls version I'd never heard. Baez is lucky to have had two totally different voices in her lifetime, and both are gorgeous. I have a Young Baez version of the song. But this Old Baez is even better! I've heard the Indigo Girls do this arrangement with Jewel and Sarah McLachlan, but Baez sounds like a Long Lost Indigo Girl.
6. And so... here I am with a new Callas album, and a new Baez. And it's past my bedtime.
2 comments:
sleep well o musical wanderer...
It was a cooler night, so I had a good sleep.
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