{"id":21339,"date":"2021-12-23T02:07:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T07:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=21339"},"modified":"2021-12-23T02:07:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T07:07:16","slug":"sing-it-like-pavarotti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=21339","title":{"rendered":"Sing It Like Pavarotti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/VAT21-400.jpeg\" alt=\"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/VAT21-400.jpeg\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome to Day 23 of the 2021 Virtual Advent Tour, hosted by my friend Sprite at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/\">Sprite Writes<\/a>. For this day of the Tour, I&#8217;m going to tell you about a silly Christmas tradition that my father and I have. One Christmastime, back when I still lived with my parents, we were talking about <em>O Holy Night<\/em>, a song that we all liked. I said, &#8220;I bet Pavarotti sings that one well.&#8221; Not long after that conversation, my Mom bought a Christmas Pavarotti CD. That CD got a lot of play, because Pavarotti did indeed sing the song well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"O Holy Night  ~  Luciano Pavarotti   (English\/French)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w2ZEpfbWUrk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Too well, perhaps. My father and I enjoyed it so much that we couldn&#8217;t resist singing along. But we couldn&#8217;t sing it in our normal singing voices. No, a voice like Pavarotti&#8217;s demands a certain level of excellence. If you&#8217;re going to sing with Pavarotti, you have to sing <em>like<\/em> Pavarotti. You have to really belt it out in your best imitation opera voice. So that&#8217;s how we always sang it, and we cracked ourselves up every time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has been many years since we listened to that CD together, but <em>O Holy Night<\/em> is still part of our Christmas celebration. My father and I gather at the piano and sing our favorite carols, for which we use our normal singing voices. But when we get to the finale, which is of course <em>O Holy Night<\/em>, we sing it like Pavarotti. With each passing year our rendition gets more exaggerated and ridiculous sounding, and we still crack ourselves up every time. It&#8217;s one of the high points of the day, I think. My mother and husband do not seem to love it as much as my father and I do, though. I can&#8217;t imagine why. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All jokes aside, <em>O Holy Night<\/em> is a beautiful song. Pavarotti&#8217;s version is still great, but these days there are many wonderful versions available. Do you have a favorite version?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Day 23 of the 2021 Virtual Advent Tour, hosted by my friend Sprite at Sprite Writes. 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