Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMagda Olivero: La Verissima
Season 2 Episode 82
This week we celebrate the recent 111th birthday of the great Italian verista Magda Olivero. An extraordinary artist whose unusual career saw her tak…
5 years, 3 months ago
Happy Songs (straight up)
Season 2 Episode 81
This week I offset the gloom of last week’s music with straight-up joy. No gimmicks, no goofiness, no weird accents. Whether the composer is Giuseppe…
5 years, 3 months ago
Sad Songs (with a twist)
Season 2 Episode 80
It’s been a year since the pandemic sent us all into various degrees of lockdown, panic, and depression. In certain parts of the world there is no en…
5 years, 3 months ago
Dusty Springfield Sings Carole King
Season 2 Episode 79
How exciting to go straight from Black History Month to Women’s History Month! Over the course of this coming month, I am going to feature programs o…
5 years, 4 months ago
Twentieth Century Pioneers
Season 2 Episode 78
To round off #BlackHistoryMonth2021, I bring you an array of artists singing a wide range of 20th Century repertoire. Included are singers who have p…
5 years, 4 months ago
Episode 77. Margaret Tynes (Black History Month 2021 V)
For a special bonus episode this week (without the usual paywall!), I bring you the extraordinary soprano Margaret Tynes, who in September celebrated…
5 years, 4 months ago
William Warfield (Black History Month 2021 IV)
Season 2 Episode 76
This week’s subject is one of the towering figures of 20th century music: the African American bass-baritone William Warfield (1920–2002). Though he …
5 years, 4 months ago
Episode 75. Lenora Lafayette (BHM2021 III)
Every so often I discover a singer who had previously not come under my radar, but who simply blows me away with their voice, artistry, and communica…
5 years, 4 months ago
Lucretia West (Black History Month 2021 II)
Season 2 Episode 74
The great African American contralto Lucretia West, born on 13 November 1922, is one of the great singers of German Lieder in general and of the musi…
5 years, 5 months ago
Carol Brice (Black History Month 2021 I)
Season 2 Episode 73
Countermelody’s Black History Month celebration for 2021 begins with the great African American contralto Carol Brice (1916-1985) who had a distingui…
5 years, 5 months ago