Episode 172. Ned Rorem In Memoriam SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Greetings to all from my former home of Manhattan! Upon…
Episode 166. Dan’s Picks SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM This week I celebrated my birthday, so today is the second of…
Episode 164. Mabel Mercer (Season Four Premiere) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Welcome to Season Four of Countermelody! My long-time listeners…
Episode 159. Forgotten Broadway II SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM The follow-up episode to my previous Forgotten Broadway episode is an…
Episode 158. Russell Oberlin SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Hearing the voice of countertenor Russell Oberlin (1928 – 2016) as a…
Episode 154. Adele Addison @ 97 SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM This Sunday, 24 July 2022, the great African American lyric…
Episode 146. Women of Color Sing Mahler SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Say their names: In Uvalde: Nevaeh Bravo, Jackie Cazares,…
Episode 134. Legacy (Black History Month 2022 Postlude) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM This is the second part of my final…
Episode 133. Never Forget (Black History Month 2022) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM I bid a lingering farewell to Black History…
Episode 131. Happy Birthday, Reri Grist (Black History Month 2022) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM The great African American coloratura Reri…
Episode 124. Dave’s Picks SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Today’s special episode is in honor of my best friend, partner-in-crime and…
Episode 116. Pop Songs by Lieder Singers SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM This week I feature nearly a century’s worth of…
Episode 110. Black Crooners SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Season Three of Countermelody begins with a potpourri episode of some of…
Episode 103. Gilbert Price SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Never heard of Gilbert Price? This episode will remedy that situation. With…
Episode 102. John Reardon: Make Someone Happy SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Here’s another great baritone to help get us through…
Episode 93. Evelyn Lear sings Sondheim and Bernstein SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM I had intended a no-holds-barred Queer Pride extravaganza…
Episode 87. Christa Ludwig I (In Memoriam) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM The world of singing sustained an enormous loss a…
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 62. Gustav Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Music for a World in Crisis VI) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM This week…
Episode 57. Francisco Araiza @ 70 SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM On October 4, the great Mexican tenor Francisco Araiza celebrated…
Episode 54. Transatlantic Crossover (Crossover Classics IX) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Today is the final episode of the Crossover Classics…
Episode 52. Operaish Broadway (Crossover Classics VIII) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Today’s episode (in celebration of Countermelody’s first birthday!) picks…
Episode 51. Legitimate Broadway SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Today’s topic is operetta and opera on Broadway. From the early days…
Episode 49. Eileen Farrell: Queen of Crossover (Crossover Classics V) SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM The American dramatic soprano Eileen Farrell…