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Back to SearchWilliam Parker (Pride 2023)
Season 4 Episode 202
Today’s episode celebrates the life and legacy of lyric baritone William Parker (05 August 1943 – 29 March 1993), the finest American recitalist of t…
3 years ago
Britten – Pears (Pride 2023)
Season 4 Episode 201
Today’s episode explores the lives and loves of two of the most significant figures in twentieth century music: Benjamin Britten, the dean of British…
3 years ago
Whole Lotta Lotte (Lehmann!)
Season 4 Episode 200
Today we observe a significant event in the history of Countermelody, namely, our 200th episode! I decided that there was no better way to celebrate …
3 years, 1 month ago
Episode 199. Tina and the Expats
If you’re like me (and I hope that, at least in this way, you are!) you have adored Tina Turner since you first became aware of her. In my case, it w…
3 years, 1 month ago
Episode 198. Cesare Valletti
Today’s episode celebrates the Italian tenore di grazia Cesare Valletti (18 December 1923 – 13 May 2000), perhaps the last in a lineage of Italian ly…
3 years, 1 month ago
Theatre Dreams
Season 4 Episode 197
I’ve been plotting an episode on the subject of Dreams for a while. Given the profusion of music that references that altered state of consciousness,…
3 years, 1 month ago
Episode 196. Grace Bumbry In Memoriam
This past week the world of opera was plunged in mourning at the news of the death of the unique, the irreplaceable Grace Bumbry (04 January 1937 – 0…
3 years, 2 months ago
Episode 195. Forgotten Broadway III
Last summer, I produced a miniseries of episodes on Countermelody entitled “Forgotten Broadway,” the third and final segment of which was originally …
3 years, 2 months ago
Great Mozart Tenors
Season 4 Episode 194
Today’s is a mammoth episode, one of my longest ever, so I suggest you listen to it in easily digestible segments. It’s mammoth because it’s a gigant…
3 years, 2 months ago
Episode 193. Alexander Kipnis
If I were to indulge in the foolish task of dubbing certain artists the “Greatest Ever,” I would have little hesitation in naming Ukrainian-American …
3 years, 2 months ago