Confident, intimate and very warm-hearted:
Barbra Streisand, … a white soul singer in Boston. Guest: IL DIVO
When I experienced Barbra Streisand live in Boston, on October 22, 2006, she had already done eight concerts of her tour of twenty cities. There has been an incredible amount of reports on her tour by the US press and numerous fans alike. I deem it virtually impossible to add something new to that, except that I can tell you how I experienced her concert personally. When you have been a fan for forty years, yet have never watched your star live, your expectations are naturally great. On the other hand, I have tracked Streisand’s career from LP to LP, from CD to CD, from movie to movie for over decades with a lot of focus and I thought I knew very well how her voice should be evaluated after 46 demanding years But when I saw her live and listened to her performance everything turned out to be a little bit different.
The arena, which was crowded with people to the very last place, gets darkened and only the silent stage gets floodlighted in a purple tone. The orchestra plays the overture of “Funny Girl”. The 55 musicians (as well as the sound arrangers) produce a surprisingly perfect sound: dynamic, distinguished, transparent. Weiterlesen
