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Donald Braswell II through silence Lyrics

Donald Braswell II, San Antonio native, will appear at a Pops concert in Symphony of the Hills Hill Country in Kerrville, Texas, on June 27, 2009 at 7:30 pm. Tickets ($ 35) are on sale after May 3 at the Cailloux Theater Box Office. Contact with them in info@symphonyofthehills.org or call (830) 896-9393 or (830) 792-2469 for promotion concert. The spectacular event is expected to sell out quickly. A 2:30 pm show may be held if that is the case and tickets for that program you can go fast, so interested people should get their tickets as soon as possible. For more information go to the Symphony the hills

Donald Braswell Fan Club Newsletter Editor, Doreen Lee, in collaboration with members article, Judy Docter, creates a beautiful mind This amazing new singers into the world of symphonic performance. NOT my work. Doreen is brilliantly written and I decided to post here without touching:

Through silence Lyrics: Journey from Premier tenor Donald Braswell of silence at Pops Tour

by Doreen Lee, in collaboration with Judy Docter

"Ed ho sentit Una Voce nel silenzio inside me." (And in the silence I heard a voice within me.) ~ Paolo Limiti

When Donald Braswell takes the stage on June 27, 2009, to act as a concert soloist with the Symphony of the Hills in Kerrville, Texas, will finally come full circle. The Juilliard graduate and protégé of Franco Corelli, the Prince of Tenors, was once known and praised for its leading tenor roles as Cavaradossi in Tosca, Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi, and Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly, but by 1995 his career was shattered in the second some of the devastating car accident that destroyed his voice. The journey back to its rightful place in the spotlight, accompanied by a full orchestra took almost 14 years, but again, Donald Braswell has arrived, this time exuding the depth and passion of a mature artist tempered by the pain and suffering of a long passage.

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As your bright vibrato quivered through the aria "Addio, Fiorito asil" ("Farewell, flowery refuge" from Puccini's Madame Butterfly) Donald Braswell, though he did not know at the time, was also bidding "Addio" to his career as first-class tenor. For more than five years since I graduated from Juilliard, and was rapidly becoming an international star whose musical brilliance would soon be equal to that of Pavarotti, Carreras and Domingo.

But the success, however promising, can be removed in an instant.

This time of adversity came for late Braswell 1995. While cycling in Britain, was hit by a car and as a result, suffered substantial damage to the throat. For the type of injury that he suffered, was told by medical professionals to speak would be a challenge for him and the song was virtually out of question. Later recalled going through a long period depression after the fatal accident to end his operatic career.

And it's understandable. Braswell grew up surrounded by music, and had never imagined life in silence. His parents, Don Sr. and Jane, were Broadway performers met on the set of L'il Abner. The music is always heard in Braswell home complements the quiet hills of South Texas where he has spent most of his life. At school, he would participate in community theater and performed in local events, all while playing with his high school football team so as not to flaunt their aesthetic side. Shortly after college, his wife Julie convinced him to apply to Juilliard, a school with a roughly 6% acceptance rate. He did the humor, thinking it would never be accepted. But Julie and her family were not to recognize his unique talent Juilliard Braswell not only accepted, but offered several scholarships.

Thus began the journey that would take the boy next Texas side to international stardom. Braswell of versatile lyrical-dramatic tenor voice made him the perfect location for many classic works of Puccini, Verdi and Donizetti. But the higher you climb, the longer and more difficult becomes the fall.

In an interview with radio station of the Trinity Praise Lord, Braswell said he had always thought that depression was something that could be easily overcome, and that was only after his accident that he understood what it meant to go through depression. For two years, could not speak at all. But despite this, he longed for a way to express their pain in the most natural way I knew through the music. During this time, wrote "Look At Me", a song that has recently made in several concerts. The song captures the listener precisely because of its poignant simplicity and powerful: "Look at me", the poetic voice of the audience asked, "I I really am somebody. "He reminds us that under the pain of silence that was forced to endure, the music was in full swing and anxiously looking for a way out.

But at that moment, the music inside him had no way of finding a way out. Braswell was then that he began to realize that despite the pain was happening, there was another source of happiness – His family. Their first child was born during this time of silence, and he called Aria. Braswell said Diane Bliss of Detroit PBS: "An aria is a song of love, the place of expression and emotion in an opera. I appointed him because when I did not have a voice, Aria was going to be the voice for me. She was my song when they have one. "

Finally, Braswell learned to take the accident that left his career and turn it into something positive. Took a new attitude towards life. "God was trying to show something," he later recalled. "When I was a professional opera singer, I was very successful in it … after this step, and my son came … He looked me in the eyes of this child … I realized … was not really about me. " Over the next few years, he and his wife had two more children, and it was no longer around the world, was able to see his three daughters grow.

When against all odds, Braswell's voice began to return, he took on the possibilities for action with local groups and church to strengthen her voice. When the time was right, Julie, who, as before, put it in a way that would take him back to the world of music – the world in which rightfully belongs. In 2007, when the third season of NBC's "America's Got Talent was in search of new talent, Julie sent in a video audition on behalf of her husband. In September of that year, was called to Dallas to a preliminary test. In a performance of 90 seconds, his life changed – again.

When he announced he would be singing Josh Groban "You Raise Me Up", laughter was heard in the audience and boos followed. At the end of the song, the audience was singing unanimous approval for him to advance to the next round. And he did, but not for long. The judges did not let him go to the Top 40, and Braswell, stripped of his musical career for the second time in his life, returned to their normal work and I thought the singing was not just his fate.

But fate had something else. When a wild card was opened in the Top 40, Braswell was one of eight contestants selected for the opportunity to return. The American public, perhaps impressed by his ability to make the public especially during its first hearing, perhaps impressed by her powerful voice and the grace with which she handled in the stage, Braswell voted back into the Top 40. From there, he went to become a of the finalists, where, after 13 years, said he could never speak again, sang with a standing ovation and later won the fourth place.

His experience in America Got Talent Braswell gave the opportunity to explore other genres of music. When the show's producer, Simon Cowell, encouraged him to sing "Unchained Melody" in the concert of the finalists in Las Vegas, Braswell, still clinging to their classical roots, was initially skeptical. However, relied on the opinion of today Cowell and "Unchained Melody" is one of the signature pieces and a fan favorite. He has since performed more sentimental pieces such as "Sam Cooke is a change Is Gonna Come" and make impressions of Elvis, while still remaining loyal to people who followed him through and before America's Got Talent, with covers of classical crossover artists like Andrea Bocelli and Mario Frangoulis.

Now imagine a solo vocalist make classic pop, rock and soul with a full orchestra. This Braswell is what it achieved in its involvement with the Symphony of the Hills. When launching the 2009-2010 Symphony Orchestra season, is expected to start a tour that Pops finally give the opportunity to perform with symphony orchestras across the country. Through everything he has experienced, Donald Braswell is back at home, both for the Hill Country has known since childhood and also back to its rightful place in music with a full orchestra.

About the Author

Cherie is the President of the Donald Braswell Fan Club. Contact her at Cherie@donaldbraswellfanclub.org. Donald was a finalist on America’s Got Talent, and is a fast-rising music entertainer and inspirational speaker. Cherie follows his progress in this column and gives people a close view of his activities. To learn more about Donald go to the Donald Braswell Fan Club or the Donald Braswell II website or listen to him on www.myspace.com/donaldbraswellmusic. Close knit fan club members, who call themselves “Braswellians”, can be spotted in audiences of all performances with their yellow roses.

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