Ned Rorem:  Visits to St. Elizabeth’s

Ned Rorem: Visits to St. Elizabeth’s

Marrying Words to Music I began this series for the No Song is Safe From Us blog with an attempt to define what a song is at a time when the word is widely used in everyday speech to connote all music and also to attempt to try to understand what it is about songs...
Dock Boggs:  Sugar Baby

Dock Boggs: Sugar Baby

Can Song Be Explained in a World Where Everything’s a Song? Having become a huge fan of NYFOS only somewhat recently (within the last four seasons), I was thrilled to be asked to contribute a week of posts to No Song is Safe from Us. But I must confess to feeling...
Arnold Bax: I heard a Piper Piping

Arnold Bax: I heard a Piper Piping

Listen to how Ann Murray slims that fabulous instrument of hers down to its shining kernel!  This is a stunning performance by two fearless, genuine artists.  I chose this song because I have learned from my husband that even in the most trying and desperate of times,...
Tom Lehrer: Send in the Marines

Tom Lehrer: Send in the Marines

From the ultimate satirist, Tom Lehrer. For might makes right Until they’ve seen the light They’ve got to be protected All their rights respected ’Til somebody WE like can be elected. Start the video at 00:20 to skip some dead screen time.  And if you want to hear...