Love These Reminders

The YouTube comments ebb and flow. Some make no sense. Some are in French, Italian and so on. Today, though, someone posted the following comment on the Papageno video: (sorry, can't link at the mo' b/c I'm at work and YouTube is blocked. Obviously Blogger isn't!)

I cannot thank you enough for posting these incredible videos of Nathan Gunn. He truly is one of THE GREATEST operatic baritones of our generation. He'll certainly become a legend! I think his Papageno is by far the best! I love your channel so much I just subscribed to it! A million thanks!

I've said it a gagillion times before, give or take a few million: This is what it's about. Sharing the music. Sometimes even I need that reminder.

This is What I'm Talking About

Free vs Paid:

Free:

Free gets you links to reviews and photos. For example, check this out - Looks like just yesterday this interview was published in Broadwayworld.com. All those people who wanted the inside scoop, maybe the article will answer some of your questions. Actually there is some interesting stuff there about teaching and performing. Pictures from the soiree are there too.


Paid:

Two lines. An incomplete sentence. No link. Of course, I'm making a huge assumption that that is paid for rather than run out of a home office.

This is what I'm talking about when I say that fan-to-fan communication is more effective than that other stuff.

I still am all a-giggle that two different people thanked me and told me they get all their Gunnnews from my blog. That's cool. It's all about sharing information. Bloggers are a huge part of that. To ignore that is to ignore a huge source of free publicity.