Luciano Pavarotti Dead

The New York Times reported today that Luciano Pavarotti had died of cancer and age 71. He was two years younger about than I am at age 73.

His voice was extraordinary as a soul-filled volume of human and transcendent emotions singing the great tenor arias.

What we can most recognize Pavarotti for was that he sang to uplift the human soul of humanity. He knew he had this effect on people and so he devoted his life to singing.

Still giving concerts in his sixties he was criticized for scheduling concerts and then canceling out of them if he did not feel he could sing well that night. A New York newspaper titled the event once as Fat Man Cancels Concert.

Some people expected that Pavarotti always be at his best for singing. However, aria singing at your best is like a physical sport. How many great atheletes compete whether injured or sick or not?

Pavarotti was right to cancel concerts because he extended his career into his sixties to inspire large audiences, yet he was fully human.

Even his overweight had its purpose certainly of grounding that enormous voice and transcendent inspiration Pararotti gave out to millions.

For it must be said that by inspiring others we inspire ourselves, but also that in inspiring others as well as ourselves we then have the opportunity to live richer lives of feeling and emotion and to tie into the great moments of our time and our personal lives.

Will our own love a suffering not be enhanced in life because Pavarotti sings?

What I have added here in this vodcast is some of my own singing improvisation to Bobby McFerrin singing Bach so that I can express my own deep feelings in the music of my voice and ears.

I have inspired many in my workshops to risk expressing themselves in many ways over the years. I cannot do less than do the same.

Thank you Luciano Pavarotti for being an inspiritation, making my life the richer also.