GLORIA LORING: THE SINGER AND SONGWRITER. Cont'd.

 

The winners include :I Get a Kick Out of You. Tonight I Celebrate My Love For You.  Here, There and Everywhere . As Time Goes By.  Once Upon a Time . You Were Always on My Mind . Quiet Please, There's a Lady on Stage . How Do I Live Without You/Con Te Partiro . Wind Beneath My Wings

The biggest challenge for Ms Loring  in making this particular recording was selecting what didn’t end up on the final release  of the track. . She explains that in the era of email, many of her fans contacted her directly to ask about certain songs she had performed on "Days". Often it was the same songs that were requested. This CD, is a direct result of those requests for recordings of those performances.  Because of the number of requests that didn’t make it onto this CD, Ms Loring intends  that a forthcoming  CD might satisfy the requests of her fans around the world.  Ms Loring adds: It's the first project I've ever done from requests. Also both my mother and father passed on around the time I was working on this and it gave several songs a special poignancy. "Con Te Partiro" (Andrea Bocelli's version) was played at my mothers' funeral just two weeks after I performed it for the first time at a symphony concert in Washington, DC. "Wing Beneath My Wings" is for my dad, who struggled for twenty years with Parkinson's disease. He was a trumpet player in the big band era and so I featured a trumpet solo on that song. Each song evokes deep feelings in me. Asking Diva Loring  of all the songs she sung over the years, which ones are dearest to her heart, Ms Loring replied: Probably "Friends and Lovers" because it was such a struggle to get it released as a record and so the joy of seeing it hit #1 will always be with me ", "Quiet Please", and "There's a Lady on Stage" because it reminds of the night I saw Judy Garland "rise to the occasion" and triumph over a skeptical audience. "Always on My Mind" is a favorite too, because it so beautifully captures the sadness of regret.

Loring's life in her songs in "Turn the Page". A singing style nourished with warmth, beauty and unsurpassed talent.

The songs written by Ms Loring are very personal and intimate. They  reflect  her direct relationships with  meaningful events  in her life. They have deeply influenced her musical talent and repertoire selection. Those events were the major source of  inspiration for her overwhelming artistic creativity. Life with its blows, sorrow and joy. Life with its daily ups and downs and deeply rooted memories  asking the artist to acknowledge them and send them free on sheets of music materialize with candor, bleeding truth, refined musical virtuosity and a  Ms Loring's voice out of this world. There is so much depth, human substance, inner feelings and sublime artistic and vocal talents in the songs of Diva Loring.

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