This is a song from the Hamilton Mixtape, which I believe is pretty well known and popular at the moment. (I don't even totally know, I live in Europe!) It's a song that is sung by George Washington in the original show and is an insightful, touching song about how...
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Rebecca Jo Loeb
Hanns Eisler: Abortion is Illegal
For this week, and for a plethora of reasons mostly having to do with coincidence, I'm going to be choosing songs with either political undertones, blatant overtones, or ones that have particular political messages that speak to me. For my first song I'd love you to...
Schubert: An Emma
I'm going to have to make an admission that I'm positive will get me in a lot of trouble: I don't really like Schubert. I know he's meant to be brilliant and the father/king of traditional Art Song but I just don't get it!! I find his songs often quite boring,...
Adam Guettel: How Glory Goes
When I was in high school I fell in love with the song "How Glory Goes" as sung by Audra McDonald on her CD by the same name. It was one of the first songs that touched me so deeply it made me cry, and it also inspired in me something new–a sense of purpose. After...
Ravel: L’indifferent
"L'indifferent" is argubly the least well known of Ravel's three songs that make up his masterpiece Sheherezade. Even so, it garners a good deal of speculation as to the nature of the poem and seems both musically and poetically shrowded in mystery. Although I've...
Sondheim: I Remember Sky
This song has long been a favorite of mine. It comes from a made for TV film called Evening Primrose which is in no way Stephen Sondheim's finest, but this song is a gem. For me, it was an incredibly important song in my development as a singer because it taught me...