Homeless woman with beautiful voice

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There are a great many talented people out there who are simply too mentally or emotionally challenged to actually make something happen with their talent. Also, a great deal of competition out there and fewer and fewer people care about listening to a Puccini aria much less a violin.

In all the music threads I've read on this forum, and other senior forums, I don't think I've ever heard anyone, aside from myself, talk about listening to symphonic music. Apparently, all my fellow boomers are still living in past rock eras as far as music.
 
retiredtraveler said:
There are a great many talented people out there who are simply too mentally or emotionally challenged to actually make something happen with their talent. Also, a great deal of competition out there and fewer and fewer people care about listening to a Puccini aria much less a violin. In all the music threads I've read on this forum, and other senior forums, I don't think I've ever heard anyone, aside from myself, talk about listening to symphonic music. Apparently, all my fellow boomers are still living in past rock eras as far as music.
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I attend symphony concerts, and ushered for them for twelve years. Stood in the rain for two hours, back in my youth, to get tickets for Pavoratti's Lyric Opera debut in La Boheme. Symphony Channel and Opera Channel are set on my satellite radios in both trucks.
 

RadishRose said:
Beautiful voice,. I love listening to classical music and opera. I wonder why people assume she's homeless, though? Seems she just goes shopping and likes to treat people to song while traveling.
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She is pushing a cart with belongings and bottles in a subway like a typical ''bag lady''. The video has gone viral so maybe someone will offer her some help now.
 
PVC said:
She is pushing a cart with belongings and bottles in a subway like a typical ''bag lady''. The video has gone viral so maybe someone will offer her some help now.
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Oh. I didn't notice the bottles and just thought the stuff in the cart was her shopping, duh! Guess I only had my listening ears on. Thanks, PVC.

I want one of those carts for unloading my bags from my car and into the house.
 
I suspect that like many other people, when I was young I didn't appreciate classical stuff, mainly because it was performed in foreign languages that I didn't understand. One day, I was listening to one of Artie Shaw's recordings that I absolutely adored, and the thought hit me, forget about the language in opera and just enjoy the sound that the singers make, like this gorgeous sound....

 
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I don't think that she is homeless, or if she is,
she is very clean and healthy looking.

Her voice is beautiful as she is.

Mike.
 
In all the music threads I've read on this forum, and other senior forums, I don't think I've ever heard anyone, aside from myself, talk about listening to symphonic music. Apparently, all my fellow boomers are still living in past rock eras as far as music.
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Retiredtraveler, I have always loved classical music, even as a child. My generation preceded the boomers by a few years. I was a weird kid who preferred Gilbert & Sullivan to popular music. I was bored to death by Patti Page, Perry Como, even Sinatra. I liked a lot of the classical composers, and by my teens was in love with the music of Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Brahms, and most of the other great composers. There were lots of kids like me in our school; I had a running competition with a friend/enemy over who got the most difficult piece that week in our piano lessons. (The simplified version of that Beethoven sonata? Doesn't count!) We must have been insufferable.

In college, I started playing the recorder (yes, it is a serious musical instrument) and became enamored of Renaissance and Baroque music. I've played with early music consorts all my life since then.

I've branched out since then, by the 60's started liking rock and folk, and since then have even learned to enjoy jazz. But classical remains my favorite type of music. You are not alone. :)
 
I dunno about this "tip" business. I don't like it!

Gosh, I hope this doesn't turn out to be scam like the "homeless guy" that gave a lady his last $20 when she "ran out of gas". What a nightmare that was!

Well, I went to the site. The tip is not required. It starts with15. but at the bottom choose "Other" and you can enter anything, even zero.
 
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Her situation is not as simple as a homeless person down on her luck.
After she was identified, more facts emerged. She likely has mental issues - like most homeless people.
 
I thought that the $300k goal was excessive, but now they've reduced it to $75k and have collected $30,405 so far. I think (not sure) that the website takes 10%, I have no idea who gets the ''tips'' and have no idea what the organizer gets from it.

win231= she actually admitted she had some health and mental issues. She came to the US from Russia at 24 and taught piano and violin lessons and then had those problems and after was making money playing the violin.
 
fmdog44 said:
Sad story because she was a victim of theft of her very expensive violin. The thief was probably a drug addict that sold it for a $10 hit of crack.
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Actually the thief damaged/destroyed it. She still has it, but cannot afford to have it repaired, if possible.
 
Retired traveler,I take offense since you assumed that some members here at SF don't listen to classic music or go to symphonies because we did not mentioned it.Well,if you bothered to ck my profile,I put down as favorite music choice: 1st Classical,2nd Jazz
I listen to our local classical station,WNED-FM a couple days/wk
 
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