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Thought I'd stick this up here, a video from wimp.com today. Not everybody is going to like this, or this kind of music. A lady named Lara Fabian singing "Je t'aime". Neat part is, as her pianist opens the song, and before she starts, an audience obviously very fond of her begins singing the song before she does. She then joins in, and she and the audience end up singing a beautiful 'duet', but she is very obviously surprised, and then deeply moved by what the audience is giving back, and she is almost overcome in parts. 'Je t'aime' is 'I love you' in French, and if you listen closely to the audience at the chorus', you can hear them singing 'On t'aime', which is 'we love you', back to her.
A very nice example of the sometimes very emotional 'connection' that can be made between an audience and a performer. I'm not widely 'traveled' in the live-performance world, but Bruce Springsteen also is very good at this, and his fans are rabidly loyal. It reminded me of a concert on campus, when I was in college, of a performance by an unknown named Tony Kosinec. He was very young then, and I've never followed him since, but in that auditorium that night, one of those moments was made. He stayed around overnight, and played a free concert the next night in one of the large seminar rooms, and it was equally moving. He said, after he was done, that when he played for us that night, he saw God.
Schmaltz? Or one of those rare moments in life? In a world where you must slog through rampant egomania, self-aggrandizement, and self-absorption, I've never forgotten it.
http://www.wimp.com/audiencesing/
Enjoy, or pass it by. No matter to me.
