PANIS ANGELICUS
2017; Wiley; Volume: 105; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/tyr.2017.0027
ISSN1467-9736
Autores Tópico(s)Theater, Performance, and Music History
Resumo1 3 R P A N I S A N G E L I C U S C L I V E J A M E S Tipped o√ by you, I watched the YouTube clip Of Pavarotti and his father singing That transcendental César Franck duet In the gallery of Modena cathedral. Slowly the lens pans up, and there they are. Now they are in my dreams, perhaps because The guiding father is a theme for me That aches a long way down. More likely, though, This haunting happens for the simple reason They sound so very beautiful together We might be listening to a strand of life Slowly assembling and made audible In all its linkages and balancings, As if the way an angel sings had been Caught in a mirror and returned through time. When Pava sang Rossini’s Stabat Mater He sang alone, but singing with his father He found an extra beauty. Listen to them: The Pearlfishers serenade the waves, Or Gobbi and Jon Vickers in Don Carlo The lonely year that I was first in London Go head to head at Covent Garden In that sensational first act duet. A lifetime has gone by since we first listened To music and, wrapped in it, found each other. Forgive me for not seeing straight away It was the blessing by which we two pagans Late in our lives might eat the bread of angels. ...
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