Post by davidhr on Apr 18, 2017 7:40:38 GMT -5
As reported last week, Lara was in Catania (Sicily), a fact she acknowledged with a set of photos on her official site, at:
www.facebook.com/larafabianofficial/photos/pcb.1519625671412258/1519624114745747/?type=3&theater
She included the caption, “Viva Catania”, and indeed, most of the pictures were of food produced there. The first photo, of Lara in reflective sunglasses showing hands on the table, is a real winner!
But the highlight of the week (and this indicates what kind of week it was) was Lara’s ‘Happy Easter’ message, accompanied by a link to a 1947 Looney Tunes cartoon called “Easter Yeggs”, at:
www.dailymotion.com/video/x2kdw23_looney-tunes-easter-yeggs-1947-1080p_shortfilms
As usual with Bugs Bunny films, it was basically physical (aka violent) interactions between Bugs and other characters, including Elmer Fudd. Whether this was intentional or not, it seems particularly appropriate at this stage in our violent world.
In what are (unintentionally) more appropriate Easter sentiments, the LFIAG Select site had a link to the song “Imaginer” sung by Jackie Evancho (in 2012) at www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUcoAlnNWP8, which turns out to be the music of ‘Broken Vow’ but with different French, lyrics. Lara apparently wrote them, and they are quite different from the English version, in fact almost opposite in nature. Here’s a translation:
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Imagine
Walter Afanasieff, / Fabian, Lara
Sitting on the edge of my big heart,
I speak of peace without shame
Of a thousand-year-old tree telling me the story that here one can scarcely believe:
Well before the tower of Babel, i-phones, diesel engines,
There existed a garden as big as our old land,
Where men protected their brethren.
Imagine a sunny world where our old wars would dissolve,
Imagine a world without hunger where the sky of a single god would extinguish all fires.
I picked up all my prayers,
Those which for us I do not cease doing.
I am hopeful that one hears in my voice the certainty that we will survive.
Imagine a sunny world where our old wars would dissolve,
Imagine a world without hunger where the sky of a single god would extinguish all fires.
Open your eyes, and throw yourself from the height of your wildest dream.
The secret is to believe in it again and despite all.
Open your eyes, let nothing nor anyone discourage you.
All you have to do is sing.
Imagine a sunny world, where our old wars would dissolve,
Imagine a world without hunger where the sky of a single god would extinguish all fires.
-----------------------------------------
Interesting that Lara herself never sang this in French; perhaps she feels she is too identified with her ‘Broken Vow’ lyrics.
And speaking of ‘old songs’: the Mademoiselle Zhivago FB site noted there was a chartsinfrance article celebrating ‘hits’ that are 20 years old. Included is ‘Tout’. Here’s a translation of the portion of the article that concerns Lara, at
www.chartsinfrance.net/actualite/news-103915.html#xLdEYUQrbUhRxvKc.99
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"Maria", "Tout", "I Believe I Can Fly" ... These hits celebrate their 20 years in 2017
Time flies ... too fast. The proof is with this focus on these generational hits that are already celebrating their 20th anniversary this year. Ricky Martin, Lara Fabian: What a collector!
"Tout" remains one of the great hits of Lara Fabian's career as well as one of the nuggets of the album "Pure", published in September 1996 in Canada but in June 1997 in France. From this album written with four hands with Rick Allison, the great love of her life, will be born the inescapable "Je t’aime" and "La difference", beautiful hymn to the love for all. But it's "Tout" that will slip to the highest in the charts! The song, whose refrain highlights the exceptional vocal power of the singer, will spend 19 weeks in a row in the top 10, ranking 4th in her best form. Impossible to have forgotten her heartbreaking words: "Everything, everything / Everything is finished between us / I don't have the strength anymore at all/ to believe and to hope…”
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Ignoring whether Rick was really the "great love of her life"...this does raise the issue we’ve brought up previously: what has happened to this song, the ‘best selling French single’ Lara has ever produced? Why is it no longer in her repertoire? Songs do fall out of fashion with performers, and that’s understandable, but a lot of her songs have not (e.g., J’y croire encore), and yet this wonderful song has not been sung live since 2011. Even then, Lara continually played around with it, changing it, for example performing a bossa nova version among others. With the English album coming up, there’s little likelihood we will see it again soon, but given its exalted status, commercially (Charts in France lists it as having sold 600,000 copies), one would think it would appeal to an audience both old and new. Maybe Lara no longer likes the sentiment of the words, but even she admitted recently that this was the song that opened up the doors for her in France. Hopefully (with the recent Easter holiday in mind), it will have its own resurrection
.
The ‘Lara Fabian & Emmaneul Moire: LE duo’ site noted that Giora Linenberg, Lara’s frequent pianist, had a birthday last week, and they celebrated it by showing a nice picture of him and Lara, at:
www.facebook.com/LaraFabianetEmmanuelMoireLEduo/photos/a.199122136821054.50267.160613337338601/1384867814913141/?type=3&theater
A few more pictures have come out from last week’s photoshoot at the freebird studios; this first one, linked to from the ‘Lara Fabian est ton autre’ site, is a backstage picture,
and the second one qualifying as one of the interesting photos of the week, again linked to from the larafabian est ton autre site,
www.facebook.com/larafabiantonautre/photos/a.168982793155393.43222.166959643357708/1298338066886521/?type=3&theater
An interesting photo, from Lara Fabian Mexico, was taken in Moscow in 2009, and is at
www.facebook.com/LaraFabianfromMexico/photos/a.556367684417296.1073741826.556364357750962/1301713873216003/?type=3&theater
And then a beautiful, pensive picture, from the ‘Lara Fabian Voice of Passion’ site,
www.facebook.com/LaraFabianTheVoiceOfPassion/photos/a.722339551114856.1073741831.720473304634814/1769961646352636/?type=3&theater
Another week with Lara living a low-keyed existence may well be in the offing, a nice break between the hectic activities in support of her previous album, and the presumed upcoming excursions for the new English one. Meanwhile, we should probably expect some more vacation-type pictures, and perhaps, soon, the name of the new English album. Future concert events should eventually show up as well, probably once the date of the new album release is finalized. Until then, here’s the link to the official video of “Tout”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw0LyxMw2go
David
www.facebook.com/larafabianofficial/photos/pcb.1519625671412258/1519624114745747/?type=3&theater
She included the caption, “Viva Catania”, and indeed, most of the pictures were of food produced there. The first photo, of Lara in reflective sunglasses showing hands on the table, is a real winner!
But the highlight of the week (and this indicates what kind of week it was) was Lara’s ‘Happy Easter’ message, accompanied by a link to a 1947 Looney Tunes cartoon called “Easter Yeggs”, at:
www.dailymotion.com/video/x2kdw23_looney-tunes-easter-yeggs-1947-1080p_shortfilms
As usual with Bugs Bunny films, it was basically physical (aka violent) interactions between Bugs and other characters, including Elmer Fudd. Whether this was intentional or not, it seems particularly appropriate at this stage in our violent world.
In what are (unintentionally) more appropriate Easter sentiments, the LFIAG Select site had a link to the song “Imaginer” sung by Jackie Evancho (in 2012) at www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUcoAlnNWP8, which turns out to be the music of ‘Broken Vow’ but with different French, lyrics. Lara apparently wrote them, and they are quite different from the English version, in fact almost opposite in nature. Here’s a translation:
-----------------------------------------------------
Imagine
Walter Afanasieff, / Fabian, Lara
Sitting on the edge of my big heart,
I speak of peace without shame
Of a thousand-year-old tree telling me the story that here one can scarcely believe:
Well before the tower of Babel, i-phones, diesel engines,
There existed a garden as big as our old land,
Where men protected their brethren.
Imagine a sunny world where our old wars would dissolve,
Imagine a world without hunger where the sky of a single god would extinguish all fires.
I picked up all my prayers,
Those which for us I do not cease doing.
I am hopeful that one hears in my voice the certainty that we will survive.
Imagine a sunny world where our old wars would dissolve,
Imagine a world without hunger where the sky of a single god would extinguish all fires.
Open your eyes, and throw yourself from the height of your wildest dream.
The secret is to believe in it again and despite all.
Open your eyes, let nothing nor anyone discourage you.
All you have to do is sing.
Imagine a sunny world, where our old wars would dissolve,
Imagine a world without hunger where the sky of a single god would extinguish all fires.
-----------------------------------------
Interesting that Lara herself never sang this in French; perhaps she feels she is too identified with her ‘Broken Vow’ lyrics.
And speaking of ‘old songs’: the Mademoiselle Zhivago FB site noted there was a chartsinfrance article celebrating ‘hits’ that are 20 years old. Included is ‘Tout’. Here’s a translation of the portion of the article that concerns Lara, at
www.chartsinfrance.net/actualite/news-103915.html#xLdEYUQrbUhRxvKc.99
------------------------------------------------------
"Maria", "Tout", "I Believe I Can Fly" ... These hits celebrate their 20 years in 2017
Time flies ... too fast. The proof is with this focus on these generational hits that are already celebrating their 20th anniversary this year. Ricky Martin, Lara Fabian: What a collector!
"Tout" remains one of the great hits of Lara Fabian's career as well as one of the nuggets of the album "Pure", published in September 1996 in Canada but in June 1997 in France. From this album written with four hands with Rick Allison, the great love of her life, will be born the inescapable "Je t’aime" and "La difference", beautiful hymn to the love for all. But it's "Tout" that will slip to the highest in the charts! The song, whose refrain highlights the exceptional vocal power of the singer, will spend 19 weeks in a row in the top 10, ranking 4th in her best form. Impossible to have forgotten her heartbreaking words: "Everything, everything / Everything is finished between us / I don't have the strength anymore at all/ to believe and to hope…”
-------------------------------------------------------
Ignoring whether Rick was really the "great love of her life"...this does raise the issue we’ve brought up previously: what has happened to this song, the ‘best selling French single’ Lara has ever produced? Why is it no longer in her repertoire? Songs do fall out of fashion with performers, and that’s understandable, but a lot of her songs have not (e.g., J’y croire encore), and yet this wonderful song has not been sung live since 2011. Even then, Lara continually played around with it, changing it, for example performing a bossa nova version among others. With the English album coming up, there’s little likelihood we will see it again soon, but given its exalted status, commercially (Charts in France lists it as having sold 600,000 copies), one would think it would appeal to an audience both old and new. Maybe Lara no longer likes the sentiment of the words, but even she admitted recently that this was the song that opened up the doors for her in France. Hopefully (with the recent Easter holiday in mind), it will have its own resurrection
.The ‘Lara Fabian & Emmaneul Moire: LE duo’ site noted that Giora Linenberg, Lara’s frequent pianist, had a birthday last week, and they celebrated it by showing a nice picture of him and Lara, at:
www.facebook.com/LaraFabianetEmmanuelMoireLEduo/photos/a.199122136821054.50267.160613337338601/1384867814913141/?type=3&theater
A few more pictures have come out from last week’s photoshoot at the freebird studios; this first one, linked to from the ‘Lara Fabian est ton autre’ site, is a backstage picture,
http://instagram.com/p/BS_AV-chxZC
and the second one qualifying as one of the interesting photos of the week, again linked to from the larafabian est ton autre site,
www.facebook.com/larafabiantonautre/photos/a.168982793155393.43222.166959643357708/1298338066886521/?type=3&theater
An interesting photo, from Lara Fabian Mexico, was taken in Moscow in 2009, and is at
www.facebook.com/LaraFabianfromMexico/photos/a.556367684417296.1073741826.556364357750962/1301713873216003/?type=3&theater
And then a beautiful, pensive picture, from the ‘Lara Fabian Voice of Passion’ site,
www.facebook.com/LaraFabianTheVoiceOfPassion/photos/a.722339551114856.1073741831.720473304634814/1769961646352636/?type=3&theater
Another week with Lara living a low-keyed existence may well be in the offing, a nice break between the hectic activities in support of her previous album, and the presumed upcoming excursions for the new English one. Meanwhile, we should probably expect some more vacation-type pictures, and perhaps, soon, the name of the new English album. Future concert events should eventually show up as well, probably once the date of the new album release is finalized. Until then, here’s the link to the official video of “Tout”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw0LyxMw2go
David
