by Rebecca Jo Loeb | Jun 30, 2016 | Song of the Day
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...
by Rebecca Jo Loeb | Jun 29, 2016 | Song of the Day
“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...
by Rebecca Jo Loeb | Jun 28, 2016 | Song of the Day
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...
by Rebecca Jo Loeb | Jun 27, 2016 | Song of the Day
In light of recent events I would like to start off my first EVER Song of the Day with a song by the band The Dresden Dolls. This band was introduced to me by the illustrious soprano Brenda Rae as we drove back together from a summer at Central City Opera. As it would...
by Michael Barrett | Jun 24, 2016 | Song of the Day
Ending the week on a transcendent, serene note, I’m returning to Leonard Bernstein at the piano with baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in Mahler’s “Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen”. This piece is an ultimate test for both singer and...
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