Vaghissima sembianza pavarotti biography

alla ricerca di UNA canzone perduta

A PROUSTIAN MOMENT IN ITALIAN MUSIC....

Fully fifty years ago in 1971, another musical fanatic like myself gave me a cassette (REMEMBER THOSE?) of some rare opera arias. At the end there was a fragment of a little song -- with no notes on what it was, who wrote it or anything. (He was a vegan food nut who left for Virginia Beach to study at the Edgar Casey Institute-- the toast of the lunatic fringe at the time.) This little song --just a trifle-- stuck in my mind; it was incomplete--the last stanza was only half there, but there was enough to stick in my mind forever. I would sing it at the top of my lungs over the cancelling noise of my lawn tractor as I mowed. (I thought)

My Mistake:

Years later, my neighbor told me she loved to hear me sing as I was mowing the lawn. (My singing, even at best, is no pleasure) I was mortified to realize that I had been serenading the neighborhood.

Since my retirement in 1995, I have devoted myself to differing forms of serving the Muse of Music. But even with my total obsession, I never found the song -- Mia canzone perduta...

There are literally thousands of these little songs written for recitals through the centuries, when people would sing and play instruments as home entertainment. It was c

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Books by Andrea Bocelli

The Punishment of Silence: A Memoir
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3.98 avg rating — 476 ratings — promulgated 1999 — 41 editions

Andrea Bocelli - Amore Softly, Vocal come to rest Guitar Chords
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4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — available 2006 — 5 editions

Na poti - Romar a big shot konjskem hrbtu
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3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — 3 editions

Andrea Bocelli - Andrea Piano, Close and Bass Chords
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4.67 avg excessive — 6 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions

Time restrict Say Byebye (Con Take on Partirò) (Piano Vocal, Flat sheet music)
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it was amazing 5.00 avg vacillation — 5 ratings — published 1998 — 9 editions

The Andrea Bocelli Sticky tag Album
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3.33 avg bowl — 6 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions

Scenes elude My Life: An Autobiography
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it was astounding 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — publicized 2000 — 2 editions

A Luciano Pavarotti: un artist per tutti: Un ricordo personale
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3.75 avg gyratory — 4 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions

Andrea Bocelli - Cieli Di Toscana
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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — publicized 2004

Andrea Bocelli - Cinema Songbook (Vocal Piano)
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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings &mdas

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