My Last Bryn post for 2006

So, I’m driving today with the windows half open. I’d gotten tired of Buster’s mixes and found the Under the Stars album – a collection of Broadway tunes done by Renee Fleming and Bryn Terfel.

Track number 6 – Stars, from Les Miz. Freaking magnificent.

At a long stoplight I’ve got it blasting pretty good, and the woman in the next car beeps me. I lower the music, assuming it’s rudely intruding on her, but she’s hollering something, so finally I shut it down completely and give give her the raised eyebrows.

“That music! That’s from Les Miz, right? That’s Stars, right?”

“Yeah,” I yell back, lowering my window a bit more.

“Who is that singing, I never heard that guy before – that’s not the cast album.”

“No,” I smile, relishing this. “It’s Bryn Terfel!”

“Whaaa?”

“Bryn Terfel!”

“Never heard of him!”

“He’s an opera guy!”

“The bastard can sing, can’t he?”

I cracked up and as the light turned I yelled out the name of the album. I don’t know if she heard me.

Yes. He can sing. Indeed.

Related: A musical occasion of sin.