Word: bocelli
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Andrea Bocelli, Anish Kapoor, and the Pope walk into the Sistine Chapel...
...this is no joke. On Saturday, the Vatican invited 250 of the art world’s Very Important People to its digs in the Holy See for a little face-time with Benedict XVI. The aforementioned Bocelli and Kapoor, as well as Ennio Morricone, Arvo Pärt, and other literary and artistic luminaries, put in appearances. The general mood in the artist camp was one of awed reverence; the general dress code, black. Nobody wants to clash with the supreme leader of the Catholic church...
Everything from Andrea Bocelli to Aretha Franklin to Bruce Springsteen to the Black Eyed Peas...
...achieve that succulent victory, Step Brothers says, is by singing the Andrea Bocelli Por Ti Volare, accompanied by a drum solo. Even a grump has to admit it. That made me laugh...
...inflated contracts, corporate mismanagement, mindless rerecordings of the warhorses and a welter of weak-minded classical-lite crossover acts. The book ends with a list of the 100 best classical recordings of all time, richly annotated with backstage gossip--and the 20 worst. When Lebrecht takes apart Andrea Bocelli's recording of Verdi's Requiem, you don't know who to feel sorrier for, Bocelli or Verdi, whose work the sweet-voiced but technically underpowered pop star "vocally murdered...