Post by davidhr on Aug 13, 2019 7:58:08 GMT -5
Lara had several more “this is what I’m doing now on vacation” pictures, posted on her Instagram site this past week. One was at
with the caption, “Between shade and sun ... and lazing on a beautiful peaceful beach in Sicily ... a thousand kisses to you ...” #Farniente #Sicilia #Relax
And there was also:
with the caption, “Beauty of the water ... rejuvenating and inspiring ... For a relaxing holiday on my land of Sicily ... I send you the sun from my home and I think very strongly of you ...”. And in reply to a well-wisher, Lara added, “Have a great holiday too and enjoy the people you love ...
Looks like she’s having a relaxing time, well-deserved given the plethora of events and emotional highs and lows of the first half of this year. A nice re-charging of batteries for the World Tour to begin in about a month.
In the same overall ‘vacation vein, there was this picture
www.facebook.com/larafabianweb/photos/pcb.2985217038160478/2985208974827951/?type=3&theater
with Lara writing, " Discovery of a wonderful shop where I found the most beautiful pajamas, sheets..."
Boutique du Blanc
The store is located in Catania, Italy.
The larafabianweb FB site showed two more relevant pictures, one of the church where Lara’s parents were married in Sicily,
www.facebook.com/larafabianweb/photos/pcb.2985370524811796/2985370151478500/?type=3&theater
and one of the beautiful lemons grown in sunny Sicily,
www.facebook.com/larafabianweb/photos/pcb.2985370524811796/2985370364811812/?type=3&theater
Lara went to Syracuse (in Sicily), and some additional photos from there are featured in the ‘interesting photo(s)’ of the week section towards the end of this update. Syracuse was founded by Greeks, and played an important role in ancient Greek history (e.g., en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syracuse,_Sicily).
As usual, there were a few more articles about the tour, this one about the upcoming concert in Greece (coincidentally, given her trip to Syracuse), at (https://mikrofwno.gr/2019/08/i-lara-fabian-gia-mia-mageftiki-synavlia-ton-dekemvrio-stin-athina/?fbclid=IwAR3FuibbbLaWF4IMiieyEoXyKtI34q23peQyBr9qpxvhA2iTzurpbomTm18). The (google) translation is given below:
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Lara Fabian for a magical concert in December in Athens
Aug 7, 2019
The award-winning Lara Fabian returns to Greece to celebrate her 50th anniversary with her beloved Greek audience, passing on the most important music stations of her career and of course presenting her new album Papillon .
On Thursday, December 12 , a few days before the 2019 deadline, beloved Lara Fabian will be celebrating her fiftieth birthday, giving her a magical evening, with an unforgettable appearance, comparable to her thirty-year career.
The musical journey of the great lady of the French-speaking song begins on the other side of the Atlantic, when she released her first album in 1991 in Quebec, Canada, under her name. It quickly becomes platinum and establishes her among the country's most popular artists.
A few years later, the release of the iconic Carpe Diem , which distinguishes her great success "Si tu m'aimes", captivates the audience and secures her a contract with the French Polydor. So, with her third album, Pure, Lara Fabian introduces herself to European audiences in the summer of 1997. "Tout", "Humana", "Je t'aime" and "La différence", which quickly emerge as a hymn to homophobia, stand out and offer the Belgian soprano a place at the top of the French-speaking song.
With 14 albums of her career, with sales exceeding 20 million copies worldwide, she does not hesitate to experiment with and use the sounds of the day, to sing in seven languages and of course always be able to seduce with her interpretive grandeur.
2019 finds Lara Fabian presenting her 14th album, Papillon, to the public . "Butterfly has been my totem since I was very young," a modern French pop album that immediately stole the attention.
Her relationship with the Greek public is a special, almost personal relationship. Maria Callas inspired her to deal with the song, Nana Muskouri is a musical idol for her while Marios Frangoulis, with whom she has sung in Greek at the Herod Atticus Conservatory, and Giorgos Perris are close friends and collaborators. "I feel like I'm surrounded by people from the Aegean and I feel so lucky about it," she comments.
Each of her appearances, a unique experience. Lara Fabian goes on stage, listens to the audience, closes her eyes and sings to them. She sings love, lamenting loss, praising equality.
Don't miss the opportunity to celebrate with Lara Fabian and her music on this magical night at the Nikos Galis Indoor Basketball Court (OAKA) on Thursday 12 December 2019.
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Interesting venue…Krutoi had a concert at the Barclay Center in Brooklyn, which is the home of the New York Nets basketball team, but also many other events. Remember that Lara has had some unfortunate experiences with venues and weather in Greece; presumably/hopefully that will not occur this time.
Then there is a more general article, whose scans were posted by the ‘Lara Fabian Coeur de lumiere’ FB site, at www.facebook.com/larafabiancoeurdelumiere/photos/pcb.406516566652642/406516519985980/?type=3&theater. Here’s the translation:
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To Deploy Her Wings
At the beginning of January 2020, Lara Fabian will celebrate her fifth birthday (30 which of are span her career) on the stages of France and Europe. An event preceded by the release the beginning of this year of a new album in French, Papillon. International star, the 'singer of voice' nevertheless regards the musical scene with much lucidity. To meet:
Your disc is called Papillon. You want to speak of a transformation?
LF: For me, the butterfly is an ode to lightness and contemplation. It is certainly synonymous with transformation, but it is an animal representing the faculty of capturing the instant, of being in phase with the little amount of time that we sometimes have, that we neglect because we are beside ourselves, in worry…This symbol, it is my means of reminding myself to be here, now, and to taste the present moment with the intensity and joy that one can experience in the instant, that we do not cherish enough with the crazy lives that we have.
L’Alcyon hovers over the album: this mythological woman turned into a bird and condemned to wander over the ocean in high winds…
LF: This song is born of the desire to describe the way in which we can feel inadequate here below. It's something personal for me: if we consider that we are incarnations in many lives, that we all have something divine, then when we walk on this earth, we have the impression of being an Alcyon, unsuitable, fighting against the squall. In the poetic elaboration of this title, I was connected to Maurane, my close friend whom I lost last year. It is my reverence to this wonderful mythological bird that she was for me: at once totally here, but also sometimes so much in struggle against the path of this earthly incarnation.
Papillon has an electronic coloration, very contemporary. What explains this surprising disc?
LF: I think that Papillon remains in my DNA: melodies, words which speak of love…but its sounds come from the time in which I live. We are well into 2019 and not in 1990, it was natural to camp my repertoire in its time, in order to evolve, simply. And besides, I did not ask myself the question by saying to myself: Ah, I'm not going to make grandiloquent songs with base notes which last nine beats. It is normal for me to go towards a style of music which is what I listen to.
For you who have been active for several decades, what do you think of the current pop scene?
LF: We are witnessing the disappearance of melodies, except for certain exceptions which, when they appear, become planetary hits, like those of Adele or Ed Sheeran. The current pop is more catchy in its sounds: we’ve passed on to gimmicks. Before we wondered how melodies can touch people, now we are more about sound than content. The group that I listen to the most at this moment has for me returned to the tradition of melodies while integrating at the same time the contemporary dimension of pop: it is Panic at the Disco. Christine and the Queens, also, is still into the true song, while integrating the era of time.
What place do you accord to lyrics, in this context?
LF: Well, I like the lightness, and some of my songs attest to it, sometimes I use syllable repetition to serve me rhythmically in the text. It happens that I care about it as much as musical content, but in my case the melodies remain the most important in a song.
What form will your birthday tour take?
LF: “50” - takes place in about fifty cities, both French and international. There will be concerts in Athens, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Rome as well as in North America. We're going to do a kind of celebration concert, with songs that have been accompanying me everywhere for twenty years from Berlin to Moscow while passing through New York and Paris.
What emotion will that produce in you?
LF: It is always a beautiful moment, because it is a chance to be able to mark a stage of life. And it's another to have an audience that supports me around the world.
----------------------------------------
In other news, so far, Alan Badoev has posted only one further ‘episode’ from his Mademoiselle Zhivago movie, one we have already seen, which was the next one in sequence in the on-line film:
8) Mr. President
Song: Mr. President
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XmnE9gBPGc
----------------------------------------
Every year, more and more children, from different countries, have something to say to their President.
Yesterday Today Tomorrow.
We build the future only for them and this is our pride and freedom.
“Mr. President,” we believe in you.
# BADOEV2013
# BADOEV2019
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Despite the somewhat violent nature of this episode (although for once it involves paint guns rather than real guns), unlike most of the others it actually ends happily with opposite sides coming to terms with each other. Since Badoev is big on being realistic, given the current world situation, this one therefore seems most unrealistic! Note it came out when the English speaking world had very different ‘presidents’.
As we heard about a month ago, Lara is the ‘face’ for the jeweler Gloria Bass Design. Various websites have posted photos of Lara wearing some of the jewelry, e.g., see the three photos at
www.facebook.com/larafabiantonautre/photos/pcb.2324689330918051/2324689100918074/?type=3&theater
This then leads into the Interesting photo(s) of the week, all concerned with Lara’s current vacation; first, of Lara and her friend Martin Rouleau,
www.facebook.com/martinrouleau.ev/photos/a.203245266409033/2529054770494726/?type=3&theater
with his caption, “#tbt Last week in a superb Lido near Ortigia, Syracuse. Thank you Lara Fabian for your precious friendship and allowing me to spend time with you in Sicily. Heaven on earth!! — in Siracusa (SR) [Syracuse].
Again, as Lara was spending time in Syracuse, there are other pictures of the same nature, i.e.,
www.facebook.com/larafabiantonautre/photos/pcb.2326317824088535/2326317784088539/?type=3&theater
www.facebook.com/larafabiantonautre/photos/pcb.2326317824088535/2326317724088545/?type=3&theater
Lara was shopping in Italy at the store Dipietro Moda Noto, and posed with a ‘truly’ interesting outfit,
www.facebook.com/1672506006396177/photos/a.1672506443062800/2275451386101633/?type=3&theater
The woman was overjoyed that Lara had chosen their store. Relevant questions: did Lara actually buy that, and, if so, would she ever really wear it?
We might expect Lara’s vacation to be wrapping up in the foreseeable future, as her concert tour grows ever closer. And to emphasize that point, Lara left the following picture on her Instagram account this morning,
with the caption, “Morning Selfie ... Relaxing on the beach ... before heading back to work to meet up on September 16th in New York ... 🙌🙌 So impatient 💗💋💗 # 50WorldTour
Lara’s fans are equally as impatient, with summer slowly passing for (many of) us, as well – but, as Lara said in her interview, it behooves one to enjoy each and every moment of it.
David
http://instagram.com/p/B1BnUMOBurf
with the caption, “Between shade and sun ... and lazing on a beautiful peaceful beach in Sicily ... a thousand kisses to you ...” #Farniente #Sicilia #Relax
And there was also:
http://instagram.com/p/B0_GOiHhMIK
with the caption, “Beauty of the water ... rejuvenating and inspiring ... For a relaxing holiday on my land of Sicily ... I send you the sun from my home and I think very strongly of you ...”. And in reply to a well-wisher, Lara added, “Have a great holiday too and enjoy the people you love ...
Looks like she’s having a relaxing time, well-deserved given the plethora of events and emotional highs and lows of the first half of this year. A nice re-charging of batteries for the World Tour to begin in about a month.
In the same overall ‘vacation vein, there was this picture
www.facebook.com/larafabianweb/photos/pcb.2985217038160478/2985208974827951/?type=3&theater
with Lara writing, " Discovery of a wonderful shop where I found the most beautiful pajamas, sheets..."
Boutique du Blanc
The store is located in Catania, Italy.
The larafabianweb FB site showed two more relevant pictures, one of the church where Lara’s parents were married in Sicily,
www.facebook.com/larafabianweb/photos/pcb.2985370524811796/2985370151478500/?type=3&theater
and one of the beautiful lemons grown in sunny Sicily,
www.facebook.com/larafabianweb/photos/pcb.2985370524811796/2985370364811812/?type=3&theater
Lara went to Syracuse (in Sicily), and some additional photos from there are featured in the ‘interesting photo(s)’ of the week section towards the end of this update. Syracuse was founded by Greeks, and played an important role in ancient Greek history (e.g., en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syracuse,_Sicily).
As usual, there were a few more articles about the tour, this one about the upcoming concert in Greece (coincidentally, given her trip to Syracuse), at (https://mikrofwno.gr/2019/08/i-lara-fabian-gia-mia-mageftiki-synavlia-ton-dekemvrio-stin-athina/?fbclid=IwAR3FuibbbLaWF4IMiieyEoXyKtI34q23peQyBr9qpxvhA2iTzurpbomTm18). The (google) translation is given below:
--------------------------------------------------
Lara Fabian for a magical concert in December in Athens
Aug 7, 2019
The award-winning Lara Fabian returns to Greece to celebrate her 50th anniversary with her beloved Greek audience, passing on the most important music stations of her career and of course presenting her new album Papillon .
On Thursday, December 12 , a few days before the 2019 deadline, beloved Lara Fabian will be celebrating her fiftieth birthday, giving her a magical evening, with an unforgettable appearance, comparable to her thirty-year career.
The musical journey of the great lady of the French-speaking song begins on the other side of the Atlantic, when she released her first album in 1991 in Quebec, Canada, under her name. It quickly becomes platinum and establishes her among the country's most popular artists.
A few years later, the release of the iconic Carpe Diem , which distinguishes her great success "Si tu m'aimes", captivates the audience and secures her a contract with the French Polydor. So, with her third album, Pure, Lara Fabian introduces herself to European audiences in the summer of 1997. "Tout", "Humana", "Je t'aime" and "La différence", which quickly emerge as a hymn to homophobia, stand out and offer the Belgian soprano a place at the top of the French-speaking song.
With 14 albums of her career, with sales exceeding 20 million copies worldwide, she does not hesitate to experiment with and use the sounds of the day, to sing in seven languages and of course always be able to seduce with her interpretive grandeur.
2019 finds Lara Fabian presenting her 14th album, Papillon, to the public . "Butterfly has been my totem since I was very young," a modern French pop album that immediately stole the attention.
Her relationship with the Greek public is a special, almost personal relationship. Maria Callas inspired her to deal with the song, Nana Muskouri is a musical idol for her while Marios Frangoulis, with whom she has sung in Greek at the Herod Atticus Conservatory, and Giorgos Perris are close friends and collaborators. "I feel like I'm surrounded by people from the Aegean and I feel so lucky about it," she comments.
Each of her appearances, a unique experience. Lara Fabian goes on stage, listens to the audience, closes her eyes and sings to them. She sings love, lamenting loss, praising equality.
Don't miss the opportunity to celebrate with Lara Fabian and her music on this magical night at the Nikos Galis Indoor Basketball Court (OAKA) on Thursday 12 December 2019.
-------------------------------------
Interesting venue…Krutoi had a concert at the Barclay Center in Brooklyn, which is the home of the New York Nets basketball team, but also many other events. Remember that Lara has had some unfortunate experiences with venues and weather in Greece; presumably/hopefully that will not occur this time.
Then there is a more general article, whose scans were posted by the ‘Lara Fabian Coeur de lumiere’ FB site, at www.facebook.com/larafabiancoeurdelumiere/photos/pcb.406516566652642/406516519985980/?type=3&theater. Here’s the translation:
----------------------------------------
To Deploy Her Wings
At the beginning of January 2020, Lara Fabian will celebrate her fifth birthday (30 which of are span her career) on the stages of France and Europe. An event preceded by the release the beginning of this year of a new album in French, Papillon. International star, the 'singer of voice' nevertheless regards the musical scene with much lucidity. To meet:
Your disc is called Papillon. You want to speak of a transformation?
LF: For me, the butterfly is an ode to lightness and contemplation. It is certainly synonymous with transformation, but it is an animal representing the faculty of capturing the instant, of being in phase with the little amount of time that we sometimes have, that we neglect because we are beside ourselves, in worry…This symbol, it is my means of reminding myself to be here, now, and to taste the present moment with the intensity and joy that one can experience in the instant, that we do not cherish enough with the crazy lives that we have.
L’Alcyon hovers over the album: this mythological woman turned into a bird and condemned to wander over the ocean in high winds…
LF: This song is born of the desire to describe the way in which we can feel inadequate here below. It's something personal for me: if we consider that we are incarnations in many lives, that we all have something divine, then when we walk on this earth, we have the impression of being an Alcyon, unsuitable, fighting against the squall. In the poetic elaboration of this title, I was connected to Maurane, my close friend whom I lost last year. It is my reverence to this wonderful mythological bird that she was for me: at once totally here, but also sometimes so much in struggle against the path of this earthly incarnation.
Papillon has an electronic coloration, very contemporary. What explains this surprising disc?
LF: I think that Papillon remains in my DNA: melodies, words which speak of love…but its sounds come from the time in which I live. We are well into 2019 and not in 1990, it was natural to camp my repertoire in its time, in order to evolve, simply. And besides, I did not ask myself the question by saying to myself: Ah, I'm not going to make grandiloquent songs with base notes which last nine beats. It is normal for me to go towards a style of music which is what I listen to.
For you who have been active for several decades, what do you think of the current pop scene?
LF: We are witnessing the disappearance of melodies, except for certain exceptions which, when they appear, become planetary hits, like those of Adele or Ed Sheeran. The current pop is more catchy in its sounds: we’ve passed on to gimmicks. Before we wondered how melodies can touch people, now we are more about sound than content. The group that I listen to the most at this moment has for me returned to the tradition of melodies while integrating at the same time the contemporary dimension of pop: it is Panic at the Disco. Christine and the Queens, also, is still into the true song, while integrating the era of time.
What place do you accord to lyrics, in this context?
LF: Well, I like the lightness, and some of my songs attest to it, sometimes I use syllable repetition to serve me rhythmically in the text. It happens that I care about it as much as musical content, but in my case the melodies remain the most important in a song.
What form will your birthday tour take?
LF: “50” - takes place in about fifty cities, both French and international. There will be concerts in Athens, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Rome as well as in North America. We're going to do a kind of celebration concert, with songs that have been accompanying me everywhere for twenty years from Berlin to Moscow while passing through New York and Paris.
What emotion will that produce in you?
LF: It is always a beautiful moment, because it is a chance to be able to mark a stage of life. And it's another to have an audience that supports me around the world.
----------------------------------------
Very interesting perspective Lara has on the current pop musical scene…she should be asked about that more often. Note also that Barcelona, Amsterdam and Rome are so far not listed on any of the sites that have collected 50 World tour venues – so presumably they are still to come. If ‘Rome’ actually does happen, it will be Lara’s first ever concert in the nation of her mother’s birth, where she spent much time growing up, and where she is currently on vacation.
In other news, so far, Alan Badoev has posted only one further ‘episode’ from his Mademoiselle Zhivago movie, one we have already seen, which was the next one in sequence in the on-line film:
8) Mr. President
Song: Mr. President
http://instagram.com/p/B037_slFHrm
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XmnE9gBPGc
----------------------------------------
Every year, more and more children, from different countries, have something to say to their President.
Yesterday Today Tomorrow.
We build the future only for them and this is our pride and freedom.
“Mr. President,” we believe in you.
# BADOEV2013
# BADOEV2019
---------------------------------------
Despite the somewhat violent nature of this episode (although for once it involves paint guns rather than real guns), unlike most of the others it actually ends happily with opposite sides coming to terms with each other. Since Badoev is big on being realistic, given the current world situation, this one therefore seems most unrealistic! Note it came out when the English speaking world had very different ‘presidents’.
As we heard about a month ago, Lara is the ‘face’ for the jeweler Gloria Bass Design. Various websites have posted photos of Lara wearing some of the jewelry, e.g., see the three photos at
www.facebook.com/larafabiantonautre/photos/pcb.2324689330918051/2324689100918074/?type=3&theater
This then leads into the Interesting photo(s) of the week, all concerned with Lara’s current vacation; first, of Lara and her friend Martin Rouleau,
www.facebook.com/martinrouleau.ev/photos/a.203245266409033/2529054770494726/?type=3&theater
with his caption, “#tbt Last week in a superb Lido near Ortigia, Syracuse. Thank you Lara Fabian for your precious friendship and allowing me to spend time with you in Sicily. Heaven on earth!! — in Siracusa (SR) [Syracuse].
Again, as Lara was spending time in Syracuse, there are other pictures of the same nature, i.e.,
www.facebook.com/larafabiantonautre/photos/pcb.2326317824088535/2326317784088539/?type=3&theater
www.facebook.com/larafabiantonautre/photos/pcb.2326317824088535/2326317724088545/?type=3&theater
Lara was shopping in Italy at the store Dipietro Moda Noto, and posed with a ‘truly’ interesting outfit,
www.facebook.com/1672506006396177/photos/a.1672506443062800/2275451386101633/?type=3&theater
The woman was overjoyed that Lara had chosen their store. Relevant questions: did Lara actually buy that, and, if so, would she ever really wear it?
We might expect Lara’s vacation to be wrapping up in the foreseeable future, as her concert tour grows ever closer. And to emphasize that point, Lara left the following picture on her Instagram account this morning,
http://instagram.com/p/B1GTzlKCSZq
with the caption, “Morning Selfie ... Relaxing on the beach ... before heading back to work to meet up on September 16th in New York ... 🙌🙌 So impatient 💗💋💗 # 50WorldTour
Lara’s fans are equally as impatient, with summer slowly passing for (many of) us, as well – but, as Lara said in her interview, it behooves one to enjoy each and every moment of it.
David
