Saturday, August 15, 2009

I hear dead people

A couple of years ago I discovered the God-like goodness of Fritz Wunderlich, the German lyric tenor. Up until this time, I had been aware of him but never paid that much attention because he sang mostly German opera and what opera he sang that wasn't German he sang in German. Anyway, I was Youtubing and came across some Wunderlich videos. One in particular turned me into a love-crazed fan! That quintessential Spanish song Granada. I listened. I listened again. And again and again and again and THEN I realized he was singing in GERMAN! I said, "Fritz! Where have you been all my life?" and the answer came back--in a hole in the ground because he died in 1966 after falling down the stairs. He was 35 years old, I was 17 months, and DH says that I hear dead people.

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