Auto accidents, Car accidents, Truck accidents, Motorcycle accidents are all happening around us. We try to drive our vehicles as carefully as possible but it is always the other drivers' that we have to worry about - right?
How else can we cope with the potential of an accident. Being aware of everything around you when you drive and not be distracted by cell phones, dvd players, gps systems etc. Of, course its easy for me to say all of this, but you know that what I'm writing is true.
Get rid of the distraction and the concentratoin is more on driving, and then being able to deal more speedily with the other driver's bad driving.
Candide Overture, conducted by the composer himself, Leonard Bernstein. Concert performance of Candide with June Anderson, Jerry Hadley, Christa Ludwig, Nicolai Gedda - London Symphony Orchestra (London, December 13, 1989).
June Anderson, Jerry Hadley, cast and chorus sing Make Our Garden Grow, the finale to Candide, conducted by the composer himself, Leonard Bernstein - London, December 13, 1989.
Jerry Hadley sings "Il lamento di Federico" ("E la solita storia") from L'arlesiana by Cilea, Julius Rudel conducting. Richard Tucker Foundation Gala, Avery Fisher Hall, New York, 1997.
David Daniels, American countertenor, sings "Ombra mai fu" from Xerxes by Handel. Julius Rudel conducting. Richard Tucker Foundation Gala, Avery Fisher Hall, New York, 1997.
June Anderson and Ferruccio Furlanetto join Carlo Bergonzi (at age seventy-one, substituting for an absent Luciano Pavarotti) to sing a scene ("Qui posa il fianco") and trio ("Qual volutta trascorrere sento") from Act III of Verdi's I Lombardi alla prima crociata, conducted by James Levine, at the April 1996 gala celebrating Levine's 25th Anniversary at the Metropolitan Opera.
David Daniels performs "Oh Patria!... Tu che accendi questo core... Di tanti palpiti" from Tancredi by Rossini. Julius Rudel conducting. Richard Tucker Foundation Gala, Avery Fisher Hall, New York, 1997.
June Anderson and Peter Dvorsky in Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoor, singing the duet "Sulla tomba . . . Verrano a te sull'aure" Geneva, 1983. Nello Santi, conducting.
June Anderson in Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoor, singing "Regnava nel silenzio . . . quando rapita in estasi" Geneva, 1983. Nello Santi, conducting.
June Anderson as Norma sings "Casta Diva", Teatro Regio di Parma, 2001, Fabio Biondi conducting. Sorry for the sound blip at around 3:08 (it sounds like an unwritten key change by the Chorus - I guarantee it's not in my original copy!).
Part 1: June Anderson, as Amina in Bellini's La Sonnambula, sings part one of Act II's final aria, "Oh! se una volta..." Rome Opera, 1989. Alberto Ventura, conducting.
Deborah Voigt performs "Sola, perduta, abbandonata" from Manon Lescaut by Puccini. Julius Rudel conducting. Richard Tucker Foundation Gala, Avery Fisher Hall, New York, 1997.
June Anderson - slide show with live recording singing "Long Time Ago" (arr. Aaron Copland), in Los Angeles recital at the Ambassador Hotel, 1991. Audio is fuzzy, I know, but what can you do...