Down The Rabbit-Hole of Delight
Once upon a time a little girl looked at the perplexing world as
wonderingly as Amira in Wonderland, discovering that some kids
never played on swings and merry-go-rounds, so she set out on
a quest to find how she might make magic to bring these things
to those kids - not knowing that her joy in singing classical music
would create the magical power to realize her dream of building
Playgrounds for them: One day she sang beautifully at a talent
contest & the first thing she said to interviewers was: I want to
build playgrounds for other kids so they can play as I do - Voilà,
a fairy godmother or two were listening, fairy godfathers came
out of the woodwork and before the world knew what was going
on, Princess Amira had built her first playground and kids were
Turning around and around on carousels, going up and down on
see-saws and climbing about on jungle gyms; as Amira sang, more
playgrounds were built, more and more kids discovered the magic
of climbing and swinging and sliding and turning in circles & while
Princess Amira went down the rabbit-hole of delight, she brought
a whole army of happy people with her ….
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Fabulous Magic With Her Mellifluous Voice
One day a clever soprano claimed: Amira is Foremost in using
Singer’s Formant which is the special Harmonic Overtones resulting
from the Resonance in a singer’s vocal tract ---- then a tenor replied;
Has this Formant been dormant in our little Nightingale Princess?
Singer’s Formant is normally the result of some very special
.
Training to drop the larynx and raise the soft palate, relax the
tongue, engage the core & manage the breath, but Amira sang
O Mio Babbino Caro at a talent contest with a Radiant Resonance
in Luminous Overtones at the age of nine - can you explain how
she did it? - We just don’t know, the choir sang back at him
.
No-one taught her except the Internet, since Pitch is the
Fundamental Frequency from which a note derives its name;
Amira sang with Perfect Pitch resonating in the richest, velvet-
sweet multiples of every Fundamental - any non-harmonic
overtones would have sounded as metallic as a bell, yet
.
Amira’s silken smooth Overtones produced such a wonderfully
warm timbre creating fabulous magic with her mellifluous voice…
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Frieda, Warrior Valkyrie, We Honour You
You gave the world a wonderful nightingale daughter and like
a warrior Valkyrie from Asgard you fought for your beautiful
daughter and son, refusing to offer them to Moloch, instead
keeping them safe, surprising everyone by bringing them to
.
Asgard where they were safe from Mammon growing up far
from money sharks, you kept them aloft with your devotion
and love, today we celebrate your date of birth & delight in
the wonderful way your protection has brought Fincent and
.
Amira through a world that wanted to eat them up before their
lives had even begun: we honour and cherish you, wonderful
mother and protector who gave us an example of thoughtful
motherhood - a shining example for ages to come!
.
[Valkyrie: Warrior women who brought heroes back to Asgard
Asgard: Abode of the gods in Norse mythology, here South Africa
Moloch: a god to whom ancient nations offered their children
Mammon: a god of money and wealth]
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Meteoric Rise Of Princess Amira
Do you know Don Quixote, the Knight who fought windmills; can you
imagine what would happen if such a Knight met Amira? When Don
Quixote heard Amira singing La Califfa, he turned to Sancho Panza
and said: That is the most beautiful voice I have ever heard, from now
on I shall fight for her - she’s the only one worthy of my endless love -
.
She fills my heart with an unbearable longing to be a better Knight, I’m
finished fighting windmills for myself, I offer my hand only to Amira; and
Don Quixote dedicated his whole life to Princess Amira fighting against
any obstacles she might encounter, with the energy he formerly used to
fight windmills - and from that time he accompanied Amira’s entourage
.
While delighting in his dream of destroying ALL windmills of obstruction
blocking the meteoric rise of Princess Amira, the sweet Nightingale of
his dreams - to whom he has given his chivalrous heart for all eternity
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Stay On Earth To Forevermore Serve Princess Amira
When Amira met the Little Prince, so serious and sweet, she listened
when he explained how hard he worked to keep his small planet free
from baobab trees, she understood his fatigue as he worked so hard
to provide for his rose who complained all the time, and Amira sang
beautiful songs to the Little Prince - and because he is a child of the
.
Stars, the Little Prince could see the flowers, diamonds & pearls that
fell from her mouth when she sang & he could also see her mind was
filled with kindness and love for every man, woman and child who had
to suffer as much as the Little Prince himself, thus he fell irrevocably
in love with Princess Amira & vowed to serve her with all the energy
.
He formerly spent on tearing out baobab trees, sweeping his extinct
volcanoes and serving his demanding rose; now that Amira showed
him the compassion his hard work and dedication to duty deserved,
he could see he had never been appreciated on his planet - so he
decided to stay here on earth to forevermore serve Princess Amira
.
[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: Le Petit Prince]
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Morricone’s Song, Your Love
When the Valkyries, strong mezzo-sopranos on horses, came from
the sky singing Hojotojo!, they heard Amira singing La vergine degli
Angeli - and asked her to join them ferrying brave warriors, battle-slain,
to Asgard in the sky & Amira replied: No Wagnerian dame am I, my song
is meant to support the people living on Earth, some of them sad - some
simply bored, but all in need of joy and delight in their lives - I shall not
.
Live in a Norse myth of feasting forever after slaying their fellow-men; But,
said the Valkyries, They did it in good cheer, no malice involved, for Land
and Volk - No, Amira replied, People strive to help one another, not fight
over land and possessions, I Shall sing Enrico Morricone’s Your Love
to them because the notes make their hearts respond to a greater
Love which is beamed down to them…
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The Enchanting Melodies
A young Princess Amira said to her mother, sweet Lady Frieda:
See the beautiful songs that I want to sing and sweet Lady Frieda
replied she must practice the songs herself, she was not a singer
nor has she ever been such, thus Princess Amira asked her young
knightly brother Fincent to transcribe the lovely songs she found
and kind Fincent wrote down the lyrics for her
.
Explained pronunciation and meaning as they resounded to the
enchanting melodies that filled Princess Amira’s heart and soon
she was singing these songs beautifully and Gerrit, her musician
father, Master of the Castle where Amira lived, then accompanied
her with bemused and delighted mien: such devotion to music he
had never seen, Lady Frieda and Knight Fincent also
.
Played along on harmonica and violin while Gerrit, an organist,
played masterfully Sancta Maria by Gomez - sung by Princess
Amira - the most beautiful version that has ever been heard!
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Delight Amira Had Bestowed
When Princess Amira was still small, she fell into Wonderland
and met the Mad Hatter, a Dormouse and the White Rabbit;
they asked her to sing them a song - so she complied & sang
Nessum Dorma - the little group was so surprised, the Mad
Hatter fell over backwards, the Dormouse woke up and went
to sit by Amira and the White Rabbit was crying with delight:
My Darling Child, he said ponderously, I have never beheld a
Nightingale Princess before and I adore the sound of your voice,
please have some more tea and sing again; and Amira replied:
I can’t have more since I haven’t had any before, but I’ll sing a
song at your behest & as she sang Nella Fantasia the Cheshire
Cat appeared and disappeared so only his smile remained as a
token of the eternal delight Amira had bestowed upon them
As Amira wandered through Wonderland practising to curtsy to
the Red Queen, she met the Caterpillar smoking his hookah and
he looked her up and down and asked her who she was and she
immediately replied: I’m Amira, I’m nine and I love singing, then
he ordered her to sing for him and she sang Song To The Moon
And he harrumphed, beyond himself with admiration and said:
Well and good, English is easy, and Amira said - But I’m Dutch!
and the Caterpillar asked her what music she loved to sing and
she said Opera Arias, I love them so much, so he ordered her to
sing Voi Che Sapete from Mozart and as her velvet voice rose
Radiantly singing the sweetest notes he had ever heard - his
heart melted within & empowered by her magic he rose up
on wings and started flying around on the beauty of her song…
Amira Reduced Her Audience To Tears
Then Amira met Professor Duck who said: Law says
a voice not acted upon by other voices will move to
a dead end - your voice doesn’t exist unless opera
critics pronounce upon it - Amira replied, Oh, I see,
as mystified as the rest of us by this quack-speak
Said another critic: Do not add vocal force by using
unreal vectors; a vibrato based on the unreal is not
real - & Amira asked, What is the relation between
maths and sound?” - The point is science doesn’t
describe the magic of music” Professor Singalong
Replied, very satisfied with himself, but undaunted
by this vacuous nonsense, Amira simply began to
sing Panis Angelicus and reduced her audience
to tears - which could be measured by science -
which was proof of the magic of music indeed!
A Little Nightingale / Debate About Opera
The trial began when the accusation was read: The
Queen of Opera sang a few arias one night and a
little Nightingale from Nijmegen stole those songs
and sang them illegally at the age of nine -
The first witness - Professor Ding-Dong - posed the
question whether those opera songs were composed
in rising musical notes for sopranos or tenors; the
second witness - Professor Singalong - asked
That people close their eyes and listen carefully then
explain what they heard; everyone said they heard
angels whispering so the Professor said maybe the
sweet-sounding opera scores existed in a separate
Musical dimension where nobody could prove that
they belonged to the Queen of Opera only, thus he
finds the Nightingale Singer innocent and the court
was dismissed - Curiouser and curiouser -
Thought the Nightingale Princess Amira - the debate
about opera is based on a dimension of dreams - so
she started to sing Nessun Dorma enchanting new
listeners with each velvet-textured, radiant note
Which twinkled & shined like diamonds & rhinestones
and the frisson of delight felt by her admirers became
the sweetest incense changing the area into a most
captivating and safe citadel...
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Forgave His Subjects
Once upon a time King Rosary declared Princess Day
in the Land of the Flowers & announced that Princess
Amira was going to sing, after her song Princess Amira
smiled at all the goblins and fairies in the Land of the
Flowers & accepted an image of the Silver Rose from
King Rosary as the highest honour
He could bestow on a Nightingale Princess, afterwards
recordings were made of Princess Amira’s songs and
whenever King Rosary felt tired and depressed, he just
listened to Princess Amira’s songs, then he felt happy,
delighted and loved again and forgave his subjects
their many transgressions!
[Based on Afrikaans children’s stories written by Verna Vels
Liewe Heksie in Blommeland [=Land of the Flowers]
governed by Koning Rosekrans [=King Rosary]
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