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Les Miserables in concert is on and I’ll be damned if I’m not a blubbering mess after A Little Fall of Rain.

Aral Balkan

(I must’ve been 17 or so when I first sang that song on stage. So clearly nothing’s changed since then. Still destroys me every time.)

@agasramirez The bit where that gets me is the orchestral resprise at the end of Javert’s suicide (soliloquy).

@aral oh now I really want to see a recording of that performance at 17 :)

@ilumium Hah, I think there might be a bad recording of it on a VHS tape somewhere still :)

But in the meanwhile, here’s me singing Pity the Child from Chess at a conference I was opening a little over a decade ago:

vimeo.com/165123760#t=113s

(Sadly, the video is tiny but the audio is passable.)

@aral @ilumium there was a list recently listing that as one of the hardest songs to sing. Bravo!!

@annecavicchi @ilumium Thanks (I did mess up in one place) ;) 💕

@aral Excellent, love it! I hope you have a group of friends to make music with often! 🤩

@ilumium Thanks, Jan 💕

(Sadly, I don’t at the moment, but maybe someday again, who knows?) :)