Sunday Concert -- Mi Mancherai

Here is Josh Groban singing the song my voice teacher has me working on right now. Another Italian song with too many syllables for the notes ... but ain't it pretty!



Here are the lyrics and translation taken from another website.

Mi Mancherai

Mi mancherai se te ne vai
Mi mancherà la tua serenità
Le tue parole come canzoni al vento
E l'amore che ora porti via
Mi mancherai se te ne vai
Ora per sempre non so come vivere
E l'allegria, amica mia, va via con te

Mi mancherai, mi mancherai, perchè vai via
Perchè l'amore in te si è spento
Perchè, perchè...
Non cambierà niente lo so
E dentro sento te

Mi mancherai, mi mancherai, perchè vai via
Perchè l'amore in te si è spento
Perchè, perchè...
Non cambierà niente lo so
E dentro sento te

Mi mancherà l'immensità
Dei nostri giorni e notti insieme noi
I tuoi sorrisi quando si fa buio
La tua ingenuità da bambina, tu...

Mi mancherai amore mio
Mi guardo e trovo un vuoto dentro me
E l'allegria, amica mia, va via con te


Translation

I'll Miss You (Mi Mancherai)
I’ll miss you, if you go away
I’ll miss your serenity
Your words like songs in the wind
And Love, that you take away.

I’ll miss you, if you go away
Now and forever I don’know how to live
And joy, my friend, goes away with you

I’ll miss you, I’ll miss you, because you go away
Because the love in you is dead
Because, because...
Nothing it’s gonna change, I know
And inside of me I feel you

I’ll miss you, I’ll miss you, because you go away
Because the love in you is dead
Because, because...
Nothing it’s gonna change, I know
And inside of me I feel you

I’ll miss the immensity
Of our days and nights,us together
Your smiles when it’s getting dark
Your being naive like a little girl

I’ll miss you, my love
I look at myself and I find emptiness inside of me
And joy, my friend, goes away with you

Sunday Concert -- Sheila's Song

The Bridge Over Troubled Water album by Simon and Garfunkel was one of a bunch that became duplicates when Sheila and I merged our record collections. Here are Simon and Garfunkel performimg the title song and one of our favorites. I post this in celebration of the 37th anniversary of that merging --- and to give Joan another song to hum this week. My sister Beth sang this for us on that glorious August day in Tallahassee, 1971.

Sunday Concert -- Lillian's Song

Twenty years ago this morning -- it was about 5:30 -- Sheila woke me to announce that the baby had punctured her private little play pool and maybe we'd better drive over to Floyd Medical Center. We spent all day there and into the evening, Sheila working about as hard as I have ever witnessed anyone work. They call it labor for a reason. Finally a little after eleven, Lillian Matthews Shaw made her entrance. What a wonderful blessing to our lives she has been!


When my daughters were little I had an "I Love You" song for each. Brannon's birthday is coming up in eight days, I'll save hers for later. Today here's Tony Bennett singing Lillian's "It's a Sin to Tell A Lie"




Bobby Vinton recorded the song:



Even John Denver sang it. You have to listen through another song first.


Last year I posted a youTube collage of Lillian pictures. Check that out here.

Sunday Concert: The More I See You

The sheet music for "The More I See You" is one from the stack of pieces, some going back to the late 1800s, that we found in this old house when we bought it. The song is a jazz standard. Check iTunes and you will find it recorded by scores of artists from Ella and Duke to Carly Simon and Bobby Darin. When I took the stack over to Angela Flanagan McRee, she picked this one out as one of her favorites for me to work on. So here's Terrell Shaw's version (with Angela on the keyboard.)

Sunday Concert: Deportee

Arlo Guthrie and Emmylou Harris sing Deportee.

Sunday Concert: Yours Truly

I love to sing and act. A couple of years ago I had the great privilege of playing the tortured Arcibald Craven in the beautiful musical The Secret Garden. I was especially pleased that my co-stars in that production included both my daughters, Lillian as Rose and Brannon as Martha.

Angela Flanagan McRee performed the role of Lily, Archie's late and lamented wife. Angela is owner, with her husband Ben, of Musikworks and also my voice coach. Several months ago she asked if I would mind her posting our duet from The Secret Garden on the Musikworks website as a sample of her vocal talents. I was pleased to agree. Today I happened to think of that and checked it out. Sure enough there we are. Looks like I could do better than a peck on the forehead for a stage kiss. And the lighting is not great. But here we are out on a limb at the Rome City Auditorium.

Click to see and hear Angela McRee and Terrell Shaw performing "How Could I Ever Know" from The Secret Garden.

Click here to see pictures from the production.

Sunday Concert: Allison Krauss

A little country this Sunday.

Sunday Concert: Today

Imagine my surprise as an old folk music fan to hear, recently, our organist at church launch into a beautiful rendition of this song as a postlude to the worship service. It is one of the prettiest tunes ever written, but the words are hardly a sermon likely to be preached 'round here. I suppose someone has put new words to it, though I've never heard them. Here are the New Christie Minstrels singing, Today ---

Sunday Concert: Both Shall Row

When Sheila and I merged our record collections in 1971 we found a number of duplications. We both had some PP&M I remember. We also both had James Taylor albums. Here is James singing an ancient folk song that we often sing at our occasional "hoots". "The Water is Wide"


This beautiful tune is now used for a wonderful hymn based on the 13th chapter of First Corinthians. Here is a children's choir singing "The Gift of Love".

Sunday Concert: Godfathers of Soul & Opera

The late, great Godfathers of Soul and Opera,
James Brown and Luciano Pavarotti,
once shared a stage and a song.
It's a Man's World.

Sunday Concert: April Love

It's April. Spring has certainly come to our little blog. And in the spirit of spring fever, here is Pat Boone and April Love.

Sunday Concert: Jussi Bjorling sings Mattinata

The world lost this wonderful voice in 1960, when he was only 49 years old. While you are at it, listen to his Nessun Dorma.

Sunday Concert: The Lovin' Spoonful

In September 1966, Sheila was a senior at Leon High in Tallahassee and a writer for the Leon High Life. The Lovin' Spoonful were in town for a concert at Florida State University and Sheila, with her good friend Judi Chastain, got to interview the group. So through the wizardry of YouTube here's The Lovin' Spoonful singing "Do You Believe in Magic".

Sunday Concert: Toscanini Conducts Beethoven's Ninth

Arturo Toscanini conducts Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the NBC Orchestra in New York City, 3/4/1948 -- a few days before my first birthday.

Sunday Concert: Dudley Moore

Dudley Moore, before the drunk, doing a parody of Schubert he calls Die Flabbergast.

Sunday Concert: Are you more amazed at how things change

Are you more amazed at how things change Or how they stay the same?



75 Septembers
Words and music by Cheryl Wheeler

In the year of the yellow cab
Shadow of the great world war
The third kid grandmom had
Came into this world
On a rolling farm in Maryland
When Wilson was the president
As summer blew her goodbye through the trees

A child of changing times
Growing up between the wars
Fords rolled off the lines
And bars all closed their doors
and I imagine you back then
With snap brim hat and farmer’s tan
Where horses drew their wagons through the fields

Now the fields are all four lanes
and the moon’s not just a name
Are you more amazed at how things change
Or how they stay the same
And do you sit here on this porch and wonder
How the time flies by
Or does it seem to barely creep along
With 75 Septembers come and gone

Were the fields all gold and fawn
Was the spring house dark and cool
Did the rooster crow at dawn
When they got you up for school
And would you tell me once again
The tales of granddad’s hired men
And how they drove the old dirt road to town

Cause now the fields are all four lanes
And the moon’s not just a name
Are you more amazed at how things change
Or how they stay the same
And do you sit here on this porch and wonder
How the times flies by
Or does it seem to barely creep along
With 75 Septembers come and gone

In the year of the yellow cab
Shadow of the great world war

Sunday Concert: Inflationary Language

I'm sure you are familiar with Victor Borge's seminal work "Phonetic Punctuation". Here he inflates (uh, inflnines) the language.

Sunday Concert: Early John Denver

Here's John Denver, again, this time with the short-lived trio that succeeded the Chad Michell Trio: Denver, Boise, and Johnson. "I wish I knew how it would feel to be free"

Sunday Concert: Ecclesiastes

Turn, Turn, Turn-
To Everything There is a Season

It was interesting to hear this week, on NPR I think, that the reason the Beatles stopped live concerts was that they could not hear each other for the screaming fans and felt their skills were not improving because of that. So they became a studio group. Listening to the juvenile screams of the Byrds' fans helps me to understand that. I have enjoyed Pete Seeger since the early sixties - I heard Turn Turn Turn before the Byrds recorded it. I was flattered once when my mother heard Pete singing on record, and when she came into the room said she had thought it was my voice.

This song is one of the few pop songs ever to have come so directly from the Bible, yet the handwritten original was owned by the Communist Party of the United States until 2007, according to Wikipedia. (Alas, Pete was indeed, until 1950, a Communist.)

Here's the famous Byrds rendition and then a discussion by members of the Byrds and by Pete of the origins of the song.

Sunday Concert: Lovell Sisters

The Lovell Sisters are an outstanding bluegrass group from here 'bouts. The group of sisters, classically trained, have made it pretty big in bluegrass circles. They may crossover into straight country or even pop as they develop. Sheila and I enjoyed hearing them in one of the "First Friday" concerts in downtown Rome over a year ago. Their big break came when they won a Prairie Home Companion teen talent contest a couple of years ago. Give a listen: