Pol Plançon - Enfant cheri … Le tambour-major from Le Caïd, by Ambroise Thomas. I am freaking the hell out, y'all. Last night I was charging around my apartment Marguerite Perrin-style because I couldn't find my one and only copy of the sheet music to this Ambroise Thomas aria. I have a feeling I threw it away in a some grand expungent gesture before the first time Twan (né Noise Band Dude) came over to my apartment. How will I ever be able to practice all the roulades and turns and arpeggii and trill with accuracy now? Also, what the hell are the words? I can make out several of them, but ugh! I NEED THE MUSIC CAN'T YOU SEE THAT I AM FIENDING FOR THE DRUM MAJOR'S ARIA HERE PLEASE HELP ME. I have done an excellent job of learning the notes by rote simply by listening to the four recordings I have of it. Granted, one is a very pedantic take from Ezio Pinza (who is one of my favorite basses, but still). The other three are of my very favorite bass, Pol Plançon. If I had the emotion called Jealousy, I would be pointing its trident at Plançon's facility, clarity of diction, and the cedille hanging from his last name like a hesitant and hydrophobic turd crust. This recording is his last and best—the one from 1907, when he was like 53 years old. It's astoundingly fresh. His trill. God, his trill. His God Trill. IT IS SO DIFFICULT TO TYPE THAT WORD WITHOUT ADDING THE SECOND R.

Anyway, someone quick, find me the sheet music to this so that when I go onstage for the first round of Met Auditions next year, my pianist will have something to play from, and I won't be singing dazzling fiorature to retarded fantasia lyrics à la "Wrapped up like a douche." Also, someone find me more recordings of males doing excellent trills. Did Hyppolite Belhomme record this aria? Why is this invaluable record of singing passing away from us? COME BACK TO THE LIGHT. .