Episode 107. Norman Bailey and Friends SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Death has had a busy month in the music world,…
Episode 106. A Baritonal Schubertiade SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM On the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, I am…
Episode 105. Teresa Żylis-Gara (In Memoriam) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM One of my very favorite singers, the Polish soprano Teresa…
Episode 104. Nicolae Herlea SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Yesterday, August 28, would have been the 94th birthday of the great…
Episode 102. John Reardon: Make Someone Happy SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Here’s another great baritone to help get us through…
Episode 101. Heinrich Rehkemper SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM I continue my salute to Great Baritones with an examination of the…
Episode 99. Yi-Kwei Sze (斯義桂) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM The Chinese-American bass Yi-Kwei Sze (1915-1994) was the first Chinese singer…
Episode 96. Great Baritones Sing Charles Ives SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM To help me and all my American friends celebrate…
Episode 93. Evelyn Lear sings Sondheim and Bernstein SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM I had intended a no-holds-barred Queer Pride extravaganza…
Episode 92. Blessed Memory (In Memoriam III) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM The final episode (for now) in my series commemorating…
Episode 91. Unforgotten (In Memoriam II) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM We continue our memorial tributes this week with the second…
Episode 90. Gone But Not Forgotten SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Christa Ludwig, celebrated two weeks ago, is not the only…
Episode 89. The Radiant Heather Harper SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM I have dreamed of doing an episode on the great…
Episode 88. Jorma Hynninen @ 80: A Celebration in Song SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM A month ago the great Finnish…
Episode 87. Christa Ludwig I (In Memoriam) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM The world of singing sustained an enormous loss a…
Episode 86. Cathy Berberian’s Second Hand Songs SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM I return to Cathy Berberian, Prima Donna of the…
Episode 84. Cathy Berberian, Part I: MagnifiCathy SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM This episode is the first part of a tribute…
Episode 83. Frühlingslieder [Spring Songs] SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Dear listeners, it is Easter Sunday. While we are strictly non-sectarian…
Episode 81. Happy Songs (straight up) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM This week I offset the gloom of last week’s music…
Episode 80. Sad Songs (with a twist) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM It’s been a year since the pandemic sent us…
Episode 78. Twentieth Century Pioneers (Black History Month 2021 VI) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM To round off #BlackHistoryMonth2021, I bring…
Episode 76. William Warfield (Black History Month IV) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM This week’s subject is one of the towering…
Episode 74. Lucretia West (Black History Month 2021 II) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM The great African American contralto Lucretia West,…
Episode 73. Carol Brice (Black History Month 2021 – I) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Countermelody’s Black History Month celebration for…
Episode 72. Igor Gorin (Great Baritones II) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM I recently rediscovered the great Ukranian-American baritone Igor Gorin…