“And, NOW to hear, “Ave Maria”

Jun 12th “And, NOW to hear, “Ave Maria”

“And, NOW to hear, “Ave Maria” by, Luciano Pavarotti is like hearing the ANGELS voices, singing, again.”

This extra special song, “AVE Marie” is one song having so much feeling for me, in that, when my MOTHER had died and the funeral would start at, “Saint Francis Assisi Church with a Mass, then to the Calvary Cemetery, for the burial, it was as if my “MOTHER” was there. The FUNERAL was on the MONDAY morning following the “SUNDAY” which was “MOTHER’s DAY” and the students were all in CHURCH and the one song that I remember them singing, was the “AVE MARIA” and when the young children sang, it sounded just as if the “ANGELS in HEAVEN” were singing, with the most beautiful of voices , it was the best and most memorable of FUNERALS, that – I can remember and I could not have planned for that to have happened in any kind of better way, to welcome my “MOTHER” in to her final resting place, for all of eternity.

“Ave MARIA” sung by “Mario Lanza” is the first professional way, that is recorded in a MOVIE in the 1940’s 1950’s time frame, that is the way that he sang it, his voice gave the song so much to remember and LOVE to it. Since, we “ORPHANS” did sing this song in “CHURCH” that is, when we did sing, we did not put the “gusto” ‘in- to- it’ all of the “Heavenly” gusto that a professional singer could give it. And TODAY, when this ‘AVE MARIA’ is played, I still sing along, and I belt it out, as if I am on stage, but my untrained voice still sounds, terrible!

“Some day – maybe my voice will change for the better?” D.V.