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Back to SearchEpisode 423. Christmas 2019 Redux: Hard/Try
Another episode of Christmas music! The first part is a continuation of the previous All-Tenor Holiday Extravaganza. We hear from Luther Saxon, Rolan…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 422. Christmas with the Tenors [2019 Throwback]
This week I present two episodes featuring Christmas music which I originally produced six years ago, in the earliest days of Countermelody. Both epi…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
Episode 421. Elly Sings Schubert [Jane’s Divas III]
Today, December 19, would have been my late mother’s 90th birthday. These past three months since her death have been so emotionally draining for me,…
9 months ago
Episode 420. Art Song Gal Pals Celebrate Mary
Today I was torn between bringing you an episode with trashy secular holiday songs or taking the high road with the Christmas portion of Paul Hindemi…
9 months ago
Episode 419. Wunderlich in Duet
Anytime I do an episode on Fritz Wunderlich, the sun breaks through the clouds, emotionally speaking. Possessor of a bright-timbred voice of such exq…
9 months, 1 week ago
Episode 418. Christmas Art Songs with Bär and Schreier
This episode celebrates the artistic accomplishments of two of the finest twentieth century singers to come from the environs of Dresden, Peter Schre…
9 months, 1 week ago
Episode 417. Hail, Queens!
Okay, I confess that the title of this week’s episode is intentionally misleading, but if I told you what it actually was outright, you might not lis…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 416. Larry Kert (World AIDS Day 2015)
Today is World AIDS Day, if anyone needed to be reminded. Though I considered doing a compendium episode of broad scope commemorating a handful of th…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 415. Our Feathered Friends (Stage Edition)
As I sat yesterday pondering all my friends, family, and compatriots celebrating Thanksgiving, my thoughts turned to the turkey, the traditional sacr…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 414. Sass Returns!
Every hundred or so episodes, I feel compelled to pay a return visit to beloved Hungarian diva Sylvia Sass, for there’s always something new and deli…
9 months, 3 weeks ago