by Steven Blier | Mar 7, 2017 | Blier's Blog
I always look forward to the first day of Caramoor rehearsal, but I also fear the first day of Caramoor rehearsal. This year’s outing, Four Islands, is a complicated show with songs from Ireland, Cuba, Madagascar, and Manhattan in five languages (including Gaelic and...
by Frank J. Oteri | Mar 3, 2017 | Song of the Day
When does a song stop being a song? And now we are here at the end of the week and the final installment of this series of posts I was asked to write for No Song Is Safe From Us. To paraphrase Frank Loesser, it’s been a long week, but I’ve really enjoyed writing these...
by Frank J. Oteri | Mar 2, 2017 | Song of the Day
Song Form Unformed and Reformed I pondered yesterday that the blame for the current use of the word “song” to describe every kind of musical composition, which I think trivializes the art of songwriting, is possibly traceable to some jazz musicians who call whatever...
by Frank J. Oteri | Mar 1, 2017 | Song of the Day
Who is the auteur, the composer, the lyricist, the singer, or the arranger? For the first installment of this series, I wrote primarily about songs by all kinds of singer-songwriters who not only created both the words and the music but were also the songs’ performers...
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