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Back to SearchEpisode 62. Gustav Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Music for a World in Crisis VI)
This week I turn to the music of Gustav Mahler, specifically his orchestral settings of poems from the influential collection of folk poetry, Des Kna…
5 years, 7 months ago
Margaret Price I: The Voice of Consolation
Season 2 Episode 61
Our world seems to be falling apart, both in the personal and in the global sense. I sustained an enormous personal loss this week when my dear frien…
5 years, 7 months ago
The Bach Aria Group (Full-Figured Baroque I)
Season 2 Episode 60
Today’s episode, dedicated to historical performances of Johann Sebastian Bach, is the first in an ongoing series I have dubbed “Full-Figured Baroque…
5 years, 8 months ago
Episode 59. Rosanna Carteri In Memoriam
I had been planning a 90th birthday tribute to this extraordinary artist in December, but alas, the great Rosanna Carteri departed this earth a week …
5 years, 8 months ago
Episode 58. Richard Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder (Music for a World in Crisis IV)
As the worldwide pandemic renews its threat and creates general unrest, panic, anger, and depression, as well as illness and death for so many, we tu…
5 years, 8 months ago
Episode 57. Francisco Araiza @ 70
On October 4, the great Mexican tenor Francisco Araiza celebrated his 70th birthday. On that day I promised my listeners a full episode on this excep…
5 years, 8 months ago
Happy Birthday to MOI!
Season 2 Episode 56
I was born this very day a specific number of years ago. My friends know exactly whe this landmark event took place. Today also marks the rollout of …
5 years, 9 months ago
Episode 55. Season Two Teaser
This week represents the limbo between the first and second seasons of Countermelody. I have been collating ideas for programs for the coming year an…
5 years, 9 months ago
Transatlantic Crossover (Crossover Classics IX)
Season 1 Episode 54
Today is the final episode of the Crossover Classics series and the final episode of Season One of Countermelody. The subject is US-American singers …
5 years, 9 months ago
Justice (In Memoriam RBG)
Season 1 Episode 53
I awoke Saturday morning in Berlin to the apocalyptic news that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died. Once again a crisis in the United States has pr…
5 years, 9 months ago