For this last week of Apr. 2019 - we chose as our YouTube Video of the Week - an old upload by the producer 21031903 specializing in old Russian ballads and Tangos - which he posted on March 22 - 2008 - titled "Ya Ehala Domoy" - an old Russian Ballad - that roughly translates from Russian as - "I Was Travelling Home".
This performance was done in 1992 concert when Boyanova was close to eighty and looking old - however - she sounds mesmerizing due to her mastery of phrasing. One could listen to her forever - her low alto (my favorite range for ballads) - sounds like silk. This piece is not clearly credited - however Boyanova sang many famous Tangos by a Russian/Latvian "Tango King" - Oscar Strok when she was young and totally glorious looking for many, many years.
The viewers' comments are extremely positive with one exception of a "garden variety" nasty hater - who was promptly removed from the comments' section - unfortunately - not removed permanently or temporarily from YouTube like the Twitter does. I - especially - like a brief comment in which one viewer simply said "Respect!!!"
In this video - Boyanova generously introduces her accomplished accompanist/pianist Victor Friedman - before her performance. It's not easy to be a good accompanist in terms of not upstaging the vocal soloist - but to enhance their performance. The audiences loved her - even in her old age. She died - approximately - seventeen years after this performance at the age of ninety-seven - in 2011.
In any event - all of us will have a very good first week of May 2019 - coming up very soon! We shall meet again - in the same place - at the same time - a week from today! A cool spring continues in our hilly Pittsburgh!
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