Travesty of Singing from the Stage

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Just screaming and then shouting—not like jazz

Or any type of music—that is what

We suffer.  Gone are bourbon razzmatazz

STREET MUSIC – playing in Vilassar de Dalt (BCN) #music #swingmusic #banjo #dixieland

Of New Orleans and Pavarotti’s hot

Luciano Pavarotti’s BEST “Nessun Dorma” (New York, 14.01.1980)

And fevered “Nessun dorma.”  Gone is love

In Sutherland who hierarchizes heights

Dame Joan Sutherland – ‘Eccola!’ (The Mad Scene) Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor – YouTube

Of stunning beauty’s gorgeousness (above

The hypnotized hushed orchestra) in flights

Of trills and mordants.  Country Western leaps

Margo Smith Tennessee Yodel

Cliona Hagan – Cowboy Yodel (Official Music Video)

In yodelling are far too fine for these

Pride stage’s screeching “musics.”  Gone are sweeps

Of Indian singing’s Shalimar-like breeze.

  But even worse than yelling notes is Rap

    Which isn’t music but is — chanting’s crap.

~ Phillip Whidden