{"id":22168,"date":"2026-10-09T16:38:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T14:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/?p=22168"},"modified":"2026-10-09T16:39:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T14:39:03","slug":"episode-494-a-birthday-potpourri-i-rescue-mission-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/09\/episode-494-a-birthday-potpourri-i-rescue-mission-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 494. A Birthday Potpourri I (Rescue Mission Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mega-menu-wrap-primary\" class=\"mega-menu-wrap\"><div class=\"mega-menu-toggle\"><div class=\"mega-toggle-blocks-left\"><\/div><div class=\"mega-toggle-blocks-center\"><\/div><div class=\"mega-toggle-blocks-right\"><div class='mega-toggle-block mega-menu-toggle-animated-block mega-toggle-block-1' id='mega-toggle-block-1'><button aria-controls=\"mega-menu-primary\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-label=\"Menu\" class=\"mega-toggle-animated mega-toggle-animated-slider\" type=\"button\">\n                  <span class=\"mega-toggle-animated-box\">\n                    <span class=\"mega-toggle-animated-inner\"><\/span>\n                  <\/span>\n                <\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><ul id=\"mega-menu-primary\" class=\"mega-menu max-mega-menu mega-menu-horizontal mega-no-js\" data-event=\"hover_intent\" data-effect=\"slide\" data-effect-speed=\"200\" data-effect-mobile=\"slide\" data-effect-speed-mobile=\"200\" data-mobile-force-width=\"body\" data-second-click=\"go\" data-document-click=\"collapse\" data-vertical-behaviour=\"standard\" data-breakpoint=\"600\" data-unbind=\"true\" data-mobile-state=\"collapse_all\" data-mobile-direction=\"vertical\"><li class=\"mega-menu-item mega-menu-item-type-post_type mega-menu-item-object-page mega-menu-item-home mega-menu-item-19160\" id=\"mega-menu-item-19160\"><a class=\"mega-menu-link\" href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/\">Home<\/a><\/li><li class=\"mega-menu-item mega-menu-item-type-post_type mega-menu-item-object-page mega-menu-item-19161\" id=\"mega-menu-item-19161\"><a class=\"mega-menu-link\" href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/about-daniel\/\">About Daniel<\/a><\/li><li class=\"mega-menu-item mega-menu-item-type-post_type mega-menu-item-object-page mega-current_page_parent mega-menu-item-19171\" id=\"mega-menu-item-19171\"><a class=\"mega-menu-link\" href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/all-episodes\/\">All Episodes<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Episode 494. A Birthday Potpourri I (Rescue Mission Edition)<\/h2>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"340\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelody.blubrry.net\/?powerpress_embed=2099-podcast&amp;powerpress_player=mediaelement-audio\" title=\"Blubrry Podcast Player\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-horizontal is-content-justification-left is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-39697d9b wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link no-border-radius wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/countermelody.blubrry.net\/\">SUBSCRIBE VIA YOUR FAVORITE PODCAST PLATFORM<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"501\" height=\"604\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Happy-Birthday-to-Me-1995.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Happy-Birthday-to-Me-1995.jpg 501w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Happy-Birthday-to-Me-1995-249x300.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Happy Birthday to Me, 1995<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:38px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s my birthday! And we\u2019re heading south for a week. But never fear: I have spent the week preparing in advance a number of new episodes which will \u201chit the airwaves\u201d right on schedule. And, perhaps best of all, they\u2019re my famous potpourri episodes, that feature everything but the kitchen sink! Today\u2019s episode is another in my \u201cRescue Mission\u201d series, featuring artists who have already received full <em>Countermelody<\/em> episodes, but who are always worth revisiting. And in each case, I\u2019m playing material that has not yet been heard on the podcast, some of it exceedingly rare! So who is up on today\u2019s episode? First, our beloved Roberta Alexander, the first anniversary of whose death we commemorate this coming week. Also heard are a veritable torrent of other <em>Countermelody<\/em> favorites: Heather Harper, Marvis Martin, Charles Kullman, George Shirley, Donald Gramm, Betty Allen, Jennie Tourel, Lenora Lafayette, G\u00e9rard Souzay, Helen Donath (who recently make a surprise return to the stage as the Old Countess in <em>Pique-Dame<\/em>!), Inez Matthews, Elisabeth S\u00f6derstr\u00f6m, Shirley Verrett, Andrzej Hiolski, and the recently departed Ileana Cotruba\u015f in an extraordinarily rare 1984 recording of one of Franz Liszt\u2019s <em>Petrarch Sonnets<\/em>. I have reached the advanced age where receiving birthday gifts has lost its thrill and lustre, but I will <em>never<\/em> tire of sharing recordings of favorite artists that I have unearthed for our mutual enjoyment! And stay tuned for next week\u2019s episode: a preview of forthcoming attractions coming in Season Eight (and beyond!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:47px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:30px\"><strong> RECORDINGS HEARD IN THIS EPISODE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:55px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dan-and-Roberta-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dan-and-Roberta-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dan-and-Roberta-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dan-and-Roberta-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dan-and-Roberta-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dan-and-Roberta-1600x1200.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Dan-and-Roberta.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leonard Bernstein, Rainer Maria Rilke [English translation by Jessie Lamont]: When My Soul Touches Yours (<em>Two Love Songs<\/em>, No. 2). Roberta Alexander, Tan Crone [1985]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"302\" height=\"481\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Gramm-Bicentennial-Leisure.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17867\" style=\"width:505px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Gramm-Bicentennial-Leisure.png 302w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Gramm-Bicentennial-Leisure-188x300.png 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Richard Cumming, Archibald MacLeish: The End of the World (<em>We Happy Few<\/em>, No. 8). Donald Gramm, Richard Cumming [1963]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"603\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Betty-Allen-Shawl-1024x603.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Betty-Allen-Shawl-1024x603.png 1024w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Betty-Allen-Shawl-300x177.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Betty-Allen-Shawl-768x452.png 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Betty-Allen-Shawl.png 1085w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Virgil Thomson, Francis of Assisi [English translation by Matthew Arnold]: From &#8220;The Canticle of the Sun&#8221; (<em>Praises and Prayers<\/em>, No. 1). Betty Allen, Virgil Thomson [world premi\u00e8re, New York 24.X.63]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"304\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Vally-Weigl.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22421\" style=\"width:528px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Vally-Weigl.jpg 304w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Vally-Weigl-228x300.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Vally Weigl (1894\u20131982)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vally Weigl, Harry Woodbourne: Afterthoughts (<em>Nature Moods<\/em>, No. 3). George Shirley, Stanley Drucker, Kenneth Gordon [1974]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/George-Shirley-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/George-Shirley-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/George-Shirley-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/George-Shirley-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/George-Shirley.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"828\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Young-Smiling-Marvis-828x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14370\" style=\"width:715px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Young-Smiling-Marvis-828x1024.png 828w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Young-Smiling-Marvis-243x300.png 243w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Young-Smiling-Marvis-768x950.png 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Young-Smiling-Marvis.png 844w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gian Carlo Menotti: Nocturne. Marvis Martin, Members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center [Jaime Laredo, Ani Kavafian, Walter Trampler, Leslie Parnas, Osian Ellis] [live NYC (world premiere) 24.X.1982]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Menotti-Barber-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Menotti-Barber-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Menotti-Barber-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Menotti-Barber-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Menotti-Barber-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Menotti-Barber-1600x900.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Menotti-Barber.jpg 1778w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gian Carlo Menotti and Samuel Barber<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"380\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Inez-Matthews-Lost-in-the-Stars.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20264\" style=\"width:474px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Inez-Matthews-Lost-in-the-Stars.jpg 380w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Inez-Matthews-Lost-in-the-Stars-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kurt Weill, MaxweIl Anderson [after Alan Paton]: Stay Well (<em>Lost in the Stars<\/em>). Inez Matthews, Orchestra conducted by Maurice Levine [1949]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"817\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Kurt-Weill-by-Yousuf-Karsh-817x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Kurt-Weill-by-Yousuf-Karsh-817x1024.jpg 817w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Kurt-Weill-by-Yousuf-Karsh-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Kurt-Weill-by-Yousuf-Karsh-768x963.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Kurt-Weill-by-Yousuf-Karsh-1225x1536.jpg 1225w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Kurt-Weill-by-Yousuf-Karsh.jpg 1563w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 817px) 100vw, 817px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kurt Weill by Yousuf Karsh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Folder.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Folder.jpg 600w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Folder-300x261.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, adapted Miklos Rozsa, lyrics Jack Brooks: Song of India (<em>Sadko<\/em>) [as heard in the film <em>Song of Scheherazade<\/em>]. Charles Kullman, Orchestra conducted by Julius Burger [1946]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"418\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Magda-Laszlo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22423\" style=\"width:548px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Magda-Laszlo.jpg 418w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Magda-Laszlo-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, unknown poet: Ogni pena pi\u00f9 spietata. Magda L\u00e1szl\u00f3, Franz Holetschek [1955]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"489\" height=\"719\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Tourel-again.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19847\" style=\"width:589px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Tourel-again.jpg 489w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Tourel-again-204x300.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Claude Debussy, Charles Baudelaire: Harmonie du soir (<em>Cinq po\u00e8mes de Charles Baudelaire<\/em>, L. 64\/2). Jennie Tourel, Erich Itor Kahn [1950]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"570\" height=\"861\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Erich-Itor-Kahn.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Erich-Itor-Kahn.png 570w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Erich-Itor-Kahn-199x300.png 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Erich Itor Kahn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"775\" height=\"980\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Lenora-Suitcase.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6907\" style=\"width:667px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Lenora-Suitcase.jpeg 775w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Lenora-Suitcase-237x300.jpeg 237w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Lenora-Suitcase-768x971.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robert Schumann, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Hei\u00df mich nicht reden, Op. 98a\/5. Lenora Lafayette, Horst G\u00f6bel [live Berlin 28.X.1968]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"357\" height=\"595\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/shirley-verrett-in-colour.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14263\" style=\"width:526px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/shirley-verrett-in-colour.jpg 357w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/shirley-verrett-in-colour-180x300.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Johannes Brahms, Georg Friedrich Daumer: Ach, wende diesen Blick, Op. 57\/4. Shirley Verrett, Charles Wadsworth [live New York 04.XI.1963]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"639\" height=\"867\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Souzay-au-bord-dun-lac.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Souzay-au-bord-dun-lac.jpg 639w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Souzay-au-bord-dun-lac-221x300.jpg 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nicolas Nabokov, Boris Pasternak [German translation by Friedrich Torberg]: Der Hopfen [Hops] (<em>Four Poems by Boris Pasternak from <strong>Doctor Zhivago<\/strong><\/em>, No. 3). G\u00e9rard Souzay, Hans Rosbaud, Sinfonieorchester des S\u00fcdwestrundfunk [live Wien 08.VI.1961]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"369\" height=\"493\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Nicolas-Nabokov.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22424\" style=\"width:509px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Nicolas-Nabokov.png 369w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Nicolas-Nabokov-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 369px) 100vw, 369px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Nicolas Nabokov<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"449\" height=\"617\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Helen-Donath-and-Tree.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21367\" style=\"width:538px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Helen-Donath-and-Tree.png 449w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Helen-Donath-and-Tree-218x300.png 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Werner Egk [after Heinrich von Kleist]: Ich war in einem Traum (<em>Die Verlobung in San Domingo<\/em>). Helen Donath, Werner Egk, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks [Bayerischen Rundfunk television production 1967]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Egk.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22425\" style=\"width:476px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Egk.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Egk-250x300.jpeg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Werner Egk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Heather-in-the-Flowers-1024x640.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Heather-in-the-Flowers-1024x640.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Heather-in-the-Flowers-300x188.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Heather-in-the-Flowers-768x480.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Heather-in-the-Flowers-1536x960.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Heather-in-the-Flowers-1600x1000.jpeg 1600w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Heather-in-the-Flowers.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alban Berg [after Georg B\u00fcchner]: Und ist kein Betrug (<em>Drei Bruchst\u00fccke aus <strong>Wozzeck<\/strong><\/em>, Op. 7a\/2). Heather Harper, Pierre, Boulez, BBC Symphony Orchestra [live Moscow 08.I.1967]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Boulez-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Boulez-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Boulez-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Boulez-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Boulez-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Boulez.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pierre Boulez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"543\" height=\"817\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ileana-in-White.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16196\" style=\"width:637px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ileana-in-White.png 543w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Ileana-in-White-199x300.png 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 543px) 100vw, 543px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Franz Liszt, Francesco Petrarca: Pace non trovo (<em>Tre Sonetti del Petrarca<\/em>, S. 270\/1). Ileana Cotruba\u015f, Adriano Jord\u00e3o [1984]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"487\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/17-Elisabeth-Soderstrom.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-860\" style=\"width:570px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/17-Elisabeth-Soderstrom.jpg 487w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/17-Elisabeth-Soderstrom-280x300.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ture Rangstr\u00f6m, Johan Ludvig Runeberg: Sommarnatten (<em>Idyll<\/em>, No. 1). Elisabeth S\u00f6derstr\u00f6m, Lennart R\u00f6nnlund [1969]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"376\" height=\"531\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Rangstrom.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22426\" style=\"width:550px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Rangstrom.jpg 376w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Rangstrom-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"189\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Hiolski.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16481\" style=\"width:601px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ernesto De Curtis, Domenico Furn\u00f2: Non ti scordar di me. Andrzej Hiolski, Henryk Debich, Polish Radio and Television Orchestra in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a [1957]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"632\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Playng-the-Xylophone.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Playng-the-Xylophone.jpg 960w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Playng-the-Xylophone-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Playng-the-Xylophone-768x506.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"639\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/One-Day-Everything-Will-Be-Different.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22428\" style=\"width:751px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/One-Day-Everything-Will-Be-Different.jpg 639w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/One-Day-Everything-Will-Be-Different-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Episode 494. A Birthday Potpourri I (Rescue Mission Edition) It\u2019s my birthday! And we\u2019re heading south for a week. But&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[420,1626,8450,1075,3207,9102,1076,5823,2261,1625,2399,6551,5137,1074,1603,1072,5806,1263,2260,808,4510,4722,6189,5691,3272,2806,9628],"tags":[9625,1635,1632,9608,9603,2265,9618,9619,3498,1981,8021,9615,501,9621,818,2186,294,3493,816,5805,8408,6587,800,9627,4268,3526,2263,25,1968,1321,4126,9605,694,5836,2933,9622,9616,448,3798,9612,9607,893,9602,2928,1137,863,9613,6425,1040,9623,2659,972,9610,1042,9614,3824,8391,7372,3057,9611,9606,9617,2617,2985,2880,2469,3100,548,2166,337,9626,6426,5371,9624,873,6429,975,9609,9604,9620,2908],"class_list":["post-22168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-african-american-opera-singers","category-african-american-singers","category-arie-antiche","category-art-song","category-behind-the-iron-curtain","category-black-history-month-2026","category-crossover","category-forgotten-divas","category-full-figured-baroque","category-gay-pride","category-great-baritones","category-great-contraltos","category-great-tenors","category-happy-birthday","category-ileana-cotrubas","category-in-memoriam","category-listeners-favorites","category-mezzo-madness","category-music-for-a-world-in-crisis","category-needle-drop","category-nyco-divas","category-orchestral-songs","category-rescue-mission","category-shirley-verrett","category-singers-of-color","category-twentieth-century-music","category-women-composers","tag-adriano-jordao","tag-alban-berg","tag-andrzej-hiolski","tag-ani-kavafian","tag-archibald-macleish","tag-betty-allen","tag-boris-pasternak","tag-boris-pasternak-doctor-zhivago","tag-charles-baudelaire","tag-charles-kullman","tag-charles-wadsworth","tag-cinq-poemes-de-charles-baudelaire","tag-claude-debussy","tag-die-verlobung-in-san-domingo","tag-domenico-furno","tag-donald-gramm","tag-elisabeth-soderstrom","tag-erich-itor-kahn","tag-ernesto-de-curtis","tag-francesco-petrarca","tag-francis-of-assisi","tag-franz-holetschek","tag-franz-liszt","tag-friedrich-torberg","tag-georg-buchner","tag-georg-friedrich-daumer","tag-george-shirley","tag-gerard-souzay","tag-gian-carlo-menotti","tag-giovanni-battista-pergolesi","tag-hans-rosbaud","tag-harry-woodbourne","tag-heather-harper","tag-heinrich-von-kleist","tag-helen-donath","tag-henryk-debuch","tag-horst-gobel","tag-ileana-cotrubas","tag-inez-matthews","tag-jack-brooks","tag-jaime-laredo","tag-jennie-tourel","tag-jessie-lamont","tag-johan-ludvig-runeberg","tag-johann-wolfgang-von-goethe","tag-johannes-brahms","tag-julius-burger","tag-kenneth-gordon","tag-kurt-weill","tag-lennart-ronnlund","tag-lenora-lafayette","tag-leonard-bernstein","tag-leslie-parnas","tag-lost-in-the-stars","tag-magda-laszlo","tag-marvis-martin","tag-matthew-arnold","tag-maurice-levine","tag-maxwell-anderson","tag-miklos-rozsa","tag-nature-moods","tag-nicolas-nabokov","tag-nikolai-rimsky-korsakov","tag-osian-ellis","tag-pierre-boulez","tag-rainer-maria-rilke","tag-richard-cumming","tag-robert-schumann","tag-roberta-alexander","tag-shirley-verrett","tag-song-of-scheherazade","tag-stanley-drucker","tag-tan-crone","tag-tre-sonneti-del-petrarca","tag-ture-rangstrom","tag-vally-weigl","tag-virgil-thomson","tag-walter-trampler","tag-we-happy-few","tag-werner-egk","tag-wozzeck"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/author\/admin\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Danny-and-Record-Player-300x188.png","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a 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class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Donald Gramm<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Elisabeth Soderstrom<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Erich Itor Kahn<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Ernesto de Curtis<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Francesco Petrarca<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Francis of Assisi<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Franz Holetschek<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Franz Liszt<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Friedrich Torberg<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Georg B\u00fcchner<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Georg Friedrich Daumer<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">George Shirley<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Gerard Souzay<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Gian Carlo Menotti<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Giovanni Battista Pergolesi<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Hans Rosbaud<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Harry Woodbourne<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Heather Harper<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Heinrich von Kleist<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Helen Donath<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Henryk Debuch<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Horst G\u00f6bel<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Ileana Cotrubas<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Inez Matthews<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Jack Brooks<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Jaime Laredo<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Jennie Tourel<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Jessie Lamont<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Johan Ludvig Runeberg<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Johannes Brahms<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Julius Burger<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Kenneth Gordon<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Kurt Weill<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Lennart R\u00f6nnlund<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Lenora Lafayette<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Leonard Bernstein<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Leslie Parnas<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Lost in the Stars<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Magda L\u00e1szl\u00f3<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Marvis Martin<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Matthew Arnold<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Maurice Levine<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Maxwell Anderson<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Miklos Rozsa<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Nature Moods<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Nicolas Nabokov<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Osian Ellis<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Pierre Boulez<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Rainer Maria Rilke<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Richard Cumming<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Robert Schumann<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Roberta Alexander<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Shirley Verrett<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Song of Scheherazade<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Stanley Drucker<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Tan Crone<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Tre Sonneti del Petrarca<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Ture Rangstr\u00f6m<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Vally Weigl<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Virgil Thomson<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Walter Trampler<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">We Happy Few<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Werner Egk<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/category\/women-composers\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Wozzeck<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Adriano Jord\u00e3o<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Alban Berg<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Andrzej Hiolski<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Ani Kavafian<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Archibald MacLeish<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Betty Allen<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Boris Pasternak<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Boris Pasternak Doctor Zhivago<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Charles Baudelaire<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Charles Kullman<\/span>","<span 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