Post by davidhr on Jan 10, 2012 11:04:32 GMT -5
Yesterday was Lara’s 42nd birthday, and fans from around the world as well as several websites offered her well wishes on her FB site. That sentiment is repeated here. For all the ups and downs Lara and her fans go through, we are very lucky to have her with us, benefiting from her work, adding quality to existence. May her life and career continue forward and fulfill her (and our) expectations.
It turns out there was another TV appearance for Lara in Moscow over New Year’s, in addition to the ‘Blue Light’ show which appeared previously. Her performance on the Gala charity show in Moscow (recorded last December 7th) was aired as the “Christmas Song of the Year 2012” and made available this past week. It featured her presentation of “Always” in front of a children’s choir. This was the same exact version presented at the Asian games, with the now customary lip-synching (and once again, to involve children in this detailed subterfuge seems reprehensible). Lara looked beautiful in the video that is readily available on youtube.
Hence neither of her two broadcast songs from Moscow featured Mlle. Zhivago songs, suggesting she may have turned the page on that album for the ‘countries to the east’ (though hopefully, the Mlle. Zhivago film and CD will still have plenty of life in them, despite this). Usually when Lara presents unrecorded songs several times, as she has now done with ‘Always’ and ‘Les feuilles mortes’, it suggests that they may appear on an up-coming album, in this case maybe the next release with Igor Krutoi. This is not always the case – she has yet to officially release covers like ‘Alfonsina y el mar’ or ‘Horchat hai calitus’ even though she has sung them various times - but ‘Always’, at least, is a new song that Krutoi seems to have written just for her.
Attention has now turned to Lara’s upcoming concert in Paris for fans, scheduled for January 15th. In that regard, Lara and her people issued the following (translated) notice:
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Hello everyone, the staff has decided to offer more places for the showcase on January 15 in Paris at the Theatre Gym. The first to send an email to mesanges@larafabian.com, with your first and last name will have the opportunity to participate. We will send you an email with the procedure for payment of the place. Attention 1 mail = 1 person. We will use the time and date of arrival of the mail to select people. Yours. The staff.
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This can be read two ways: the way the fans were reading it, Lara’s people became cognizant of fans who had ‘missed out’ on going for one reason or another (or maybe just were not fan club members), and they’ve now graciously been offered an opportunity. Or…they overestimated the number of fan club members who were willing and able to go to Paris in mid-January, even for a free concert, and are now stuck with a half-empty hall. Regardless, in a further message posted today, the staff indicated that all the seats have now been taken. We still do not know what she will sing (what the ‘poll’ results really were), but hopefully it will not be a repeat of her September concert in Charleroi with the usual ‘oldies’.
In other news, the website ‘Lara Fabian est ton autre’ has uploaded a diverse, interesting group of recent and somewhat older photos; they can be found at:
www.facebook.com/pages/Lara-Fabian-est-ton-autre/166959643357708
(just click on any one, and it leads to the others).
Wladimir Krupsky released another remix of one of Lara’s songs in time for her birthday, in this case ‘Soleil Soleil’. It is available at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmF8_opYYTg
He calls it part of the ‘Lara Fabian Party’ album, which was first advertised last summer at wladimir-krupsky.skyrock.com/3005603155-LARA-FABIAN-PARTY-PROMO-EDITION.html . The site says a full album of remixes will be released this year (with proper authorization, one presumes, if it really happens).
Lara’s upcoming concerts in Lebanon have gotten some undesirable publicity. An on-line article at www.20min.ch (“20 minutes on-line”) notes that the price of a ticket turns out to be equal to ¼ the average monthly salary of people in that country. The ticket prices range from 190-470 swiss francs. The average monthly salary in Lebanon is 900 francs for women, 1100 for men. The point of the article is that Lara is catering to the ‘jet setters’ and forgetting the middle class who make up the majority of her fans. Note that a Swiss franc is currently equal to about $1. One wonders what the writer of the article would have said had he learned that some of Lara’s concerts in Moscow had ticket prices of $1000 or more!
By this time next week we will know about Lara’s concert in Paris; hopefully there will be videos/audios although we don’t know what will be allowed. We will also presumably find out which songs ‘made the cut’ from the poll. If any of the Mlle. Zhivago songs are performed, that will be a good sign for its future promotion.
David
It turns out there was another TV appearance for Lara in Moscow over New Year’s, in addition to the ‘Blue Light’ show which appeared previously. Her performance on the Gala charity show in Moscow (recorded last December 7th) was aired as the “Christmas Song of the Year 2012” and made available this past week. It featured her presentation of “Always” in front of a children’s choir. This was the same exact version presented at the Asian games, with the now customary lip-synching (and once again, to involve children in this detailed subterfuge seems reprehensible). Lara looked beautiful in the video that is readily available on youtube.
Hence neither of her two broadcast songs from Moscow featured Mlle. Zhivago songs, suggesting she may have turned the page on that album for the ‘countries to the east’ (though hopefully, the Mlle. Zhivago film and CD will still have plenty of life in them, despite this). Usually when Lara presents unrecorded songs several times, as she has now done with ‘Always’ and ‘Les feuilles mortes’, it suggests that they may appear on an up-coming album, in this case maybe the next release with Igor Krutoi. This is not always the case – she has yet to officially release covers like ‘Alfonsina y el mar’ or ‘Horchat hai calitus’ even though she has sung them various times - but ‘Always’, at least, is a new song that Krutoi seems to have written just for her.
Attention has now turned to Lara’s upcoming concert in Paris for fans, scheduled for January 15th. In that regard, Lara and her people issued the following (translated) notice:
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Hello everyone, the staff has decided to offer more places for the showcase on January 15 in Paris at the Theatre Gym. The first to send an email to mesanges@larafabian.com, with your first and last name will have the opportunity to participate. We will send you an email with the procedure for payment of the place. Attention 1 mail = 1 person. We will use the time and date of arrival of the mail to select people. Yours. The staff.
------------------------------------------
This can be read two ways: the way the fans were reading it, Lara’s people became cognizant of fans who had ‘missed out’ on going for one reason or another (or maybe just were not fan club members), and they’ve now graciously been offered an opportunity. Or…they overestimated the number of fan club members who were willing and able to go to Paris in mid-January, even for a free concert, and are now stuck with a half-empty hall. Regardless, in a further message posted today, the staff indicated that all the seats have now been taken. We still do not know what she will sing (what the ‘poll’ results really were), but hopefully it will not be a repeat of her September concert in Charleroi with the usual ‘oldies’.
In other news, the website ‘Lara Fabian est ton autre’ has uploaded a diverse, interesting group of recent and somewhat older photos; they can be found at:
www.facebook.com/pages/Lara-Fabian-est-ton-autre/166959643357708
(just click on any one, and it leads to the others).
Wladimir Krupsky released another remix of one of Lara’s songs in time for her birthday, in this case ‘Soleil Soleil’. It is available at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmF8_opYYTg
He calls it part of the ‘Lara Fabian Party’ album, which was first advertised last summer at wladimir-krupsky.skyrock.com/3005603155-LARA-FABIAN-PARTY-PROMO-EDITION.html . The site says a full album of remixes will be released this year (with proper authorization, one presumes, if it really happens).
Lara’s upcoming concerts in Lebanon have gotten some undesirable publicity. An on-line article at www.20min.ch (“20 minutes on-line”) notes that the price of a ticket turns out to be equal to ¼ the average monthly salary of people in that country. The ticket prices range from 190-470 swiss francs. The average monthly salary in Lebanon is 900 francs for women, 1100 for men. The point of the article is that Lara is catering to the ‘jet setters’ and forgetting the middle class who make up the majority of her fans. Note that a Swiss franc is currently equal to about $1. One wonders what the writer of the article would have said had he learned that some of Lara’s concerts in Moscow had ticket prices of $1000 or more!
By this time next week we will know about Lara’s concert in Paris; hopefully there will be videos/audios although we don’t know what will be allowed. We will also presumably find out which songs ‘made the cut’ from the poll. If any of the Mlle. Zhivago songs are performed, that will be a good sign for its future promotion.
David