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Season 3 Episode 142
In (relative) relief over the recent French election result, I kick off my miniseries devoted to French singers and French music. Today’s episode wil…
4 years, 2 months ago
Chansons d’avril
Season 3 Episode 141
This week’s episode is a musical celebration of all things spring. As in all episodes of this sort, it features a wide range of singers in performanc…
4 years, 2 months ago
Episode 140. Universal Passion
For Christians, this week is probably the most central to the theology of their faith, focusing as it does on the story of the Passion of the Christ.…
4 years, 2 months ago
Episode 139. Swiss Misses and Misters
A few months ago, David and I paid a visit to Zurich. The weather was glorious, we ate well, saw interesting theater, and I found a great used record…
4 years, 3 months ago
Cabaret Risqué: Broadway Edition
Season 3 Episode 138
At Countermelody, this April Fool’s Day begins with a dirty musical joke, and a great one! The episode continues with nearly a century’s worth of per…
4 years, 3 months ago
Episode 137. Ukrainian Singers and Composers
Here finally is my long-promised and long-overdue episode on great Ukrainian singers. Because I am so historically oriented, I begin the episode at t…
4 years, 3 months ago
Episode 136. Puccini en Français
This week’s episode is a counterpart to my ongoing exploration of the practice of performing opera in translation which includes the “Verdi auf Deuts…
4 years, 3 months ago
Episode 135. A Woman’s Winterreise
Today in honor of Women’s History Month and the people of Ukraine, I present a compendium of eight different Liedersängerinnen singing Franz Schubert…
4 years, 4 months ago
Episode 134. Legacy (Black History Month 2022 Postlude)
This is the second part of my final episode of Black History Month 2022, continuing the exploration of the legacies of more than two dozen mostly und…
4 years, 4 months ago
Episode 133. Never Forget (Black History Month 2022)
I bid a lingering farewell to Black History Month 2022 with the first of a two-part episode featuring singers, each of whom left a relatively small b…
4 years, 4 months ago