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Back to SearchEpisode 132. Brock Peters (Black History Month 2022)
How often it happens that, even when an artist produces an august and varied body of work, that they are remembered only for a tiny fragment of their…
4 years, 4 months ago
Episode 131. Happy Birthday, Reri Grist! (Black History Month 2022)
The great African American coloratura Reri Grist was born on leap year 1932. We celebrate her upcoming 90th birthday with a tribute featuring many of…
4 years, 4 months ago
Episode 130. Hutch (Black History Month 2022)
Leslie Hutchinson (1900-1969), known universally as Hutch, rose from his beginnings in Grenada, to become the biggest music star in London in the 193…
4 years, 4 months ago
Episode 129. Leontyne Price in Concert (Black History Month 2022)
The great Leontyne Price, soprano par excellence and beacon to a world that desperately needed (and still needs) her, turned 95 this week. In celebra…
4 years, 5 months ago
Leslie Uggams (Black History Month 2022)
Season 3 Episode 128
I would bet (though I can’t guarantee it) that I was one of a very small number of white 8-year-old Wisconsin boys who, on Sunday nights in the summe…
4 years, 5 months ago
Maria Ewing in Memoriam (Black History Month 2022)
Season 3 Episode 127
The exceptional, distinctive Maria Ewing died of cancer on January 9 at her home outside of her native Detroit at the age of 71. Even before her deat…
4 years, 5 months ago
Canadian Singers of Art Song
Season 3 Episode 126
After two weeks of so-called “deep dives” into the careers and recordings of Lois Marshall and Jon Vickers – two of the greatest Canadian singers – t…
4 years, 5 months ago
Episode 125. Jon Vickers (Great Canadian Singers)
Our series saluting great Canadian singers continues with a tribute to one of the greatest singers I have ever seen in performance, the Saskatchewan-…
4 years, 5 months ago
Episode 124. Dave’s Picks
Today’s special episode is in honor of my best friend, partner-in-crime and Corona-lockdown buddy, the distinguished theater scholar and author David…
4 years, 5 months ago
Lois Marshall (Great Canadian Singers I)
Season 3 Episode 123
Today is my first episode of the New Year, and the first in my three-part series this month on Great Canadian Singers. It is my contention that my fi…
4 years, 6 months ago