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1. Member
   Stina

   @CM

   6:11 PM EDT ⋅ Mar 30, 2019

   Midget Faded Rattlesnake (View Comment):

   Patrick McClure (View Comment):

   My oldest daughter is a soprano. My second is an alto. Being very cruel, I have asked them to sing a duet of Ave Maria at my (hopefully long in the future) funeral. Thanks for the video Susan. Every father hopes to have his daughter look at him like that little girl did.

   Have they sung the Lakme duet together?

   It itself is not the worst choice for a funeral.

   As the one stuck singing Ave Maria at family funerals, my tip is: do it as the introit.

   That way you don’t have to keep it together during the service itself to avoid singing all verklempt. (I say “stuck” but of course it’s an honor and the least I can do — still, it’s psychologically demanding to give a beautiful vocally-demanding tribute, one not rendered painful to the ear by emotion.)

   I sang As the Deer at my grandfather’s funeral. That was 21 years ago? I haven’t sung it since. As proxy, I play it on the piano now.

2. Member
   Quietpi

   @Quietpi

   6:38 PM EDT ⋅ Mar 30, 2019

   Hey! (From a tenor, mind you!) Men singing is making a comeback.  You want to hear men sing?  Try this!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmDGntpZC3I

3. Contributor
   Susan Quinn

   @SusanQuinn

   Post author

   6:47 PM EDT ⋅ Mar 30, 2019

   Quietpi (View Comment):

   Hey! (From a tenor, mind you!) Men singing is making a comeback. You want to hear men sing? Try this!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmDGntpZC3I

   Wow! That was fabulous!!! Were you singing with them? Or do you sing barbershop quartet? I love anything that is a capella!

4. Coolidge
   Patrick McClure

   @Patrickb63

   7:15 PM EDT ⋅ Mar 30, 2019

   Midget Faded Rattlesnake (View Comment):

   Patrick McClure (View Comment):

   My oldest daughter is a soprano. My second is an alto. Being very cruel, I have asked them to sing a duet of Ave Maria at my (hopefully long in the future) funeral. Thanks for the video Susan. Every father hopes to have his daughter look at him like that little girl did.

   Have they sung the Lakme duet together?

   So beautiful

   It itself is not the worst choice for a funeral.

   As the one stuck singing Ave Maria at family funerals, my tip is: do it as the introit.

   That way you don’t have to keep it together during the service itself to avoid singing all verklempt. (I say “stuck” but of course it’s an honor and the least I can do — still, it’s psychologically demanding to give a beautiful vocally-demanding tribute, one not rendered painful to the ear by emotion.)

   I will suggest this.

5. Member
   Quietpi

   @Quietpi

   8:52 PM EDT ⋅ Mar 30, 2019

   Susan Quinn (View Comment):

   Quietpi (View Comment):

   Hey! (From a tenor, mind you!) Men singing is making a comeback. You want to hear men sing? Try this!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmDGntpZC3I

   Wow! That was fabulous!!! Were you singing with them? Or do you sing barbershop quartet? I love ANYTHING that is a capella!

   I sing in a couple barbershop choruses, but not the Ambassadors of Harmony, from St. Charles, MO.  But to prove it isn’t all old guys, here’s a quartet from Southern California, the Newfangled Four:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BH2CqE5mNQ

   And just for fun, the Newfangled Four with Main Street, the latter 2017 Barbershop Harmony Society International Champions:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TNecocWFkA

6. Coolidge
   TBA

   @RobtGilsdorf

   11:16 PM EDT ⋅ Mar 30, 2019

   Stina (View Comment):

   Midget Faded Rattlesnake (View Comment):

   Patrick McClure (View Comment):

   My oldest daughter is a soprano. My second is an alto. Being very cruel, I have asked them to sing a duet of Ave Maria at my (hopefully long in the future) funeral. Thanks for the video Susan. Every father hopes to have his daughter look at him like that little girl did.

   Have they sung the Lakme duet together?

   It itself is not the worst choice for a funeral.

   As the one stuck singing Ave Maria at family funerals, my tip is: do it as the introit.

   That way you don’t have to keep it together during the service itself to avoid singing all verklempt. (I say “stuck” but of course it’s an honor and the least I can do — still, it’s psychologically demanding to give a beautiful vocally-demanding tribute, one not rendered painful to the ear by emotion.)

   I sang As the Deer at my grandfather’s funeral. That was 21 years ago? I haven’t sung it since. As proxy, I play it on the piano now.

   Sometimes you retire a jersey, sometimes you retire a song. 

7. Member
   Boss Mongo

   @BossMongo

   5:27 PM EDT ⋅ Mar 31, 2019

   Man, none of my daughters look at me like that when I burst into song in public.  ‘Course, the fact that I can’t carry a tune in a paper bag might have something to do with it.