>From: Dean FH Macy <deanmacy@m...> > >singersuki@a... wrote: > > > the tenor sang "O Paradiso" and then dropped dead of a heart attack. >Right > > there as he was walking back from the front through the altar, he >staggered, > > and fell down > > with a horrendous THUMP! as his head hit the tile floor.
and Dean replied:
>Couple of times. One was in a church conference. The choir had just >started to >sing, "Oh Death, Where Is Thy Victory" when a latecomer, halfway down the >aisle >collapsed and died. The other was in the Hollywood Bowl during the finale >of Mahlar's "Resurrection >Symphony." As I was about to begin the Tenor solo, the conductor collapsed >into a >heap and rolled off the stand. > >Kinda makes you want to give up singing. >
Has anyone else noticed the rather ominous sound of all the music titles in question? Makes me want to drop "When I am laid in earth" from my repertoire. :-)
But seriously, it is too bad for the tenor to die so suddenly and at a too-early age. On the other hand, he died doing what (I hope) he loved best.
Elizabeth Finkler http://home.earthlink.net/~mightymezzo/ mightymezzo@h... GO SHARKS!
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