Podcast Episodes

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, 6 months ago

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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, 6 months ago

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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, 7 months ago

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Episode 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, 7 months ago

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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, 7 months ago

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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, 7 months ago

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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, 7 months ago

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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, 7 months ago

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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, 7 months ago

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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, 8 months ago

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