Pavarotti's funeral was today

So help me, I have cried something furious in the past few days since his passing.

A lot of people really didn't know that about me: that I was a big fan of Luciano Pavarotti. And I'd always dreamed of hearing him live in concert someday. That'll never happen now.

Pavarotti is one of the best reasons why God in His graciousness has allowed us to have things like compact discs. I really believe that. If He let the printing press come about so that His word could be shared with the world, then God let sound recording and other technology happen so that the world could enjoy and stand in awe at the magnificent things He has created. Like Pavarotti's voice.

We'll be lucky if the next hundred years gives us a voice so magnificent. Heck, we'll be lucky if we get a voice so magnificent as Pavarotti's at all, ever again.

Here's another clip that I found on YouTube of him performing. This is the piece that comes most to mind whenever I think of Pavarotti: his rendition of "Nessun Dorma" from Puccini's Turandot...

Words fail to describe how beautiful this is.

Thank you Pavarotti, for sharing with us for so very many of these long years the talent that God gave you.

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A great voice falls silent: Luiciano Pavarotti has passed away

Why does it seem lately that we are losing so many legends?

It was in 1985 when I first heard Luciano Pavarotti sing. It was a concert on television and even as an 11-year old kid, I though there was something magnificent about Pavarotti's voice. Over the years I made sure to watch Pavarotti whenever he was on.

Probably my best memory of Pavarotti was when he did the 3 Tenors concert at the 1994 World Cup in Los Angeles, where Pavarotti performed alongside Placido Domingo and José Carreras. I watched the whole thing live and bought the concert CD the day it came out a few weeks later. Before the show they were running footage of Pavarotti in the days leading up to the concert, laughing and playing with a soccer ball.

Here's the story from ABC News about his passing.

I don't know of what else that could be said about the man's talent and personality that hasn't been said elsewhere. But here's one thing that showcases it in spades, and I had no idea that this even existed until a short while ago...

Here is Luciano Pavarotti and James Brown performing "It's A Man's World" in concert!

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