Episode 138. Cabaret Risqué: Broadway Edition

Episode 138. Cabaret Risqué: Broadway Edition SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM At Countermelody, this April Fool’s Day begins with a dirty…

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Episode 137. Ukrainian Singers and Composers

Episode 137. Ukrainian Singers and Composers SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Here finally is my long-promised and long-overdue episode on great…

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Episode 136. Puccini en Français

Episode 136. Puccini en Français SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM This week’s episode is a counterpart to my ongoing exploration of…

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Episode 135. A Woman’s Winterreise

Episode 135. A Woman’s Winterreise SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Today in honor of Women’s History Month and the people of…

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Episode 134. Legacy

Episode 134. Legacy (Black History Month 2022 Postlude) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM This is the second part of my final…

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Episode 133. Never Forget

Episode 133. Never Forget (Black History Month 2022) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM I bid a lingering farewell to Black History…

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Episode 132. Brock Peters

Episode 132. Brock Peters (Black History Month 2022) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM How often it happens that, even when an…

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Episode 131. Reri Grist

Episode 131. Happy Birthday, Reri Grist (Black History Month 2022) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM The great African American coloratura Reri…

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Episode 130. Hutch (Leslie Hutchinson)

Episode 130. Hutch [Leslie Hutchinson] (Black History Month 2022) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Leslie Hutchinson (1900-1969), known universally as Hutch,…

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Episode 129. Leontyne Price in Concert

Episode 129. Leontyne Price in Concert [Black History Month 2022] SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM The great Leontyne Price, soprano par…

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Episode 128. Leslie Uggams

Episode 128. Leslie Uggams (Black History Month 2022) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM I would bet (though I can’t guarantee it)…

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Episode 127. Maria Ewing

Episode 127. Maria Ewing in Memoriam (Black History Month 2022) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM The exceptional, distinctive Maria Ewing died…

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Episode 126. Canadian Singers of Art Song

Episode 126. Canadian Singers of Art Song (Great Canadian Singers) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM After two weeks of so-called “deep…

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Episode 125. Jon Vickers

Episode 125. Jon Vickers (Great Canadian Singers) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Our series saluting great Canadian singers continues with a…

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Episode 123. Lois Marshall

Episode 123. Lois Marshall (Great Canadian Singers) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Today is my first episode of the New Year,…

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Episode 122. Auld Acquaintance II

Episode 122. Auld Acquaintance II SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Part Two of my “Auld Acquaintance” mini-series on Countermelody continues the…

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Episode 121. Auld Acquaintance I

Episode 121. Auld Acquaintance I SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM This special episode, the first of two year-end celebrations, presents artists…

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Episode 120. Bethany Beardslee

Episode 120. Bethany Beardslee SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Today’s episode celebrates a pioneer in the performance of twentieth century vocal…

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Episode 119. Christmas Art Songs

Episode 119. Christmas Art Songs SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM It’s time for my third annual Christmas show! Can you believe…

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Episode 118. Stephen Sondheim & Joséphine Baker

Episode 118. Stephen Sondheim & Joséphine Baker SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Two titans of culture were in the news this…

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Episode 117. Buffy Sainte-Marie

Episode 117. Buffy Sainte-Marie (Great Canadian Singers) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM In observation of US-American “Thanksgiving,” known to its Indigenous…

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Episode 116. Pop Songs by Lieder Singers

Episode 116. Pop Songs by Lieder Singers SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM This week I feature nearly a century’s worth of…

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Episode 115. Jules Bledsoe

Episode 115. Jules Bledsoe SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM This week I present an important African American artist who has been…

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Episode 114. James King

Episode 114. James King SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM This week I turn my attention once again to the tenors, who…

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Episode 113. Edda Moser

Episode 113. Edda Moser SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM On 27 October the great German dramatic coloratura Edda Moser celebrated her…

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