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Back to SearchEpisode 112. Barry McDaniel
This past week would have been the 91st birthday of Barry McDaniel (1930-2018), the great US-American Berlin-based lyric baritone whose artistry enco…
4 years, 8 months ago
Verdi auf Deutsch I
Season 3 Episode 111
Today’s is a mammoth episode on a mammoth topic: historical performances of Verdi’s operas in German translation. I trace the historical and ongoing …
4 years, 8 months ago
Episode 110. Black Crooners
Season Three of Countermelody begins with a potpourri episode of some of my favorite crooners of color. I begin with an example of Bert Williams, the…
4 years, 9 months ago
Bernard Kruysen: Baryton Martin Extraordinaire
Season 2 Episode 109
Today I celebrate the life and artistry of Bernard Kruysen (1933-2000), the Dutch singer whose voice exemplified that now nearly extinct vocal catego…
4 years, 9 months ago
Episode 108. Christiane Eda-Pierre
Today’s episode is a memorial tribute to the great Martinique-born French soprano Christiane Eda-Pierre on the first anniversary of her death. When t…
4 years, 9 months ago
Episode 107. Norman Bailey and Friends
Death has had a busy month in the music world, especially this past week, when we lost the great British Heldenbariton Norman Bailey and the delectab…
4 years, 9 months ago
Episode 106. A Baritonal Schubertiade
On the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, I am at a loss for meaningful words. Thus I have turned, as I have often done in my own life, an…
4 years, 10 months ago
Episode 105. Teresa Żylis-Gara In Memoriam
One of my very favorite singers, the Polish soprano Teresa Żylis-Gara, died on Saturday 28 August at the age of 91. I had been planning a birthday ep…
4 years, 10 months ago
Episode 104. Nicolae Herlea
Yesterday, August 28, would have been the 94th birthday of the great Romanian baritone Nicolae Herlea (1927 – 2014). I continue my great baritone ser…
4 years, 10 months ago
Episode 103. Gilbert Price
Never heard of Gilbert Price? This episode will remedy that situation. With a voice that was easily produced, full-ranged, tonally refulgent, technic…
4 years, 10 months ago