Sunday Reads

Noted opera singer Montserrat Caballe, 85, passed away yesterday.  She was one of the most renowned singers in her field in the twentieth century.

For sheer vocal glory, reviewers wrote, few voices, if any, could rival Ms. Caballé’s. She was possessed of a lyric soprano that, though light and shimmering, was not without heft. It was renowned for its riverine suppleness, and for an ethereal translucence that few other voices could equal.

Over nearly half a century, critics invoked adjectives to describe Ms. Caballé’s sound that would read as staggering hyperbole for almost anyone else: “limpid,” “liquid,” “shimmering,” “quicksilver,” “celestial,” “unearthly,” “velvety,” “voluptuous,” “lustrous,” “ravishing.”

“She possesses,” Stereo Review magazine said of Ms. Caballé in 1992, “one of the most beautiful voices ever to issue from a human throat.”

In other words, she was a larger than life figure.
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One idiot Democrat and a slew of GOP idiots confirmed drunk and rapist Brett Kavanaugh, but that hasn't stopped people from protesting the appointment.
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This was horrific beyond description:



Twenty people were killed including many, many members of one family.
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