by Five Boroughs Music Festival | May 23, 2019 | Song of the Day
This week’s Song of the Day is hosted by Jesse Blumberg and Donna Breitzer, the Artistic Director and Executive Director, respectively, of Five Boroughs Music Festival. Are you ready for Walt Whitman’s birthday next weekend? We hope you got him something...
by Five Boroughs Music Festival | May 22, 2019 | Song of the Day
This week’s Song of the Day is hosted by Jesse Blumberg and Donna Breitzer, the Artistic Director and Executive Director, respectively, of Five Boroughs Music Festival. Every five years or so, we at 5BMF like to go all out and commission twenty composers to write a...
by Elaine Sexton | May 17, 2019 | Song of the Day
This ecstatic song needs no introduction. The text for “Happy” is itself an irrepressible extended metaphor for the title, a song built on similes “like a room without a roof”. “Happy” sold 6.45 million copies in the U.S., alone, in the year after its release in...
by Elaine Sexton | May 16, 2019 | Song of the Day
“This poet ruined my life,” Leonard Cohen said of the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca. Cohen, a singer/songwriter and poet, himself, took great liberty with the original text of the haunting poem it is based on,”Pequeño vals vienés” (Little...
by Elaine Sexton | May 15, 2019 | Song of the Day
Save the people, save the childrenSave the country, everybody save the countrySave the country, save the country, save the country now The Pollyanna in me reaches for something hopeful today. The political climate we are living in certainly calls for more protest...
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