🎄🎁Holiday love Andre Rieu

 

Andrè Rieu

This holiday time  has been wonderfully enhanced by Andre Rieu concerts and films on Sky Arts... I am truly fascinated by Andre the King of the Waltz and his orchestra family.. There is something quite wonderful how his music, his singers, his style, his love of music and response in the audience, absolutely unites countries and continents in the world. The magic created demonstrates how we can be a Global family.. the music and songs touch every emotion that runs through us all.. Happiness, sadness, despair and hope.  Andre's style and stage production can reach into the hearts of the mass audiences he attracts. He has respect and appreciation for the countries he plays in, reaches out to the cultures and can weave into his concerts. I love the way he recognises new young talent and gives them a chance on stage with him. 

Just before the pandemic global lockdown he brought to the stage 11yrs old  Emanne Beasha with her very powerful soprano voice to sing "O mio babbino caro" a moving song where a young woman is begging her father to let her marry the man she loves. Not a dry eye in the audience and me too sat at home watching on TV ..the power of her voice, her story telling and the connection with Andre awesome. Each note, each lyric resonates into your very being ..captivated by what your ears hearing, what your eyes seeing..your mind taken into the scene created ...even to the point you are not only drawn to the stage but become part of that story that scene created..  ecstastically  beautiful.. Played over and over again never loses its potency.

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The King of Waltz became a King of Cakes in lockdown.. looks like we all needed to be in lockdown with Andre... wow some yummy looking cakes... but we would have  needed  daily cycling round Maastricht to burn off the calories. I love what set him off to bake ..in his film The year the Music stopped ..he shared that when on tours and in times couldn't sleep he would watch cake baking tutorials..but never had time to try... so in lockdown time was there to try ..progressing from small cakes to larger ones.

Andrè Rieu

Check out venues for his concerts now able to tour again 

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