by Aleba Gartner and Phil Kline | Apr 28, 2017 | Song of the Day
Our final pairing this week: these songs don’t have a lot in common, but each makes us smile. From Aleba: Meredith Monk: The Tale I adore this video and watch it when i need a mood lifter. It’s short and totally charming. The performance captures Meredith’s great...
by Aleba Gartner and Phil Kline | Apr 27, 2017 | Song of the Day
Day 4’s pairing: Today we go all Russian! From Phil: Mussorgsky Songs and Dances of Death: Trepak Mussorgsky’s last great work is the four-song cycle Songs and Dances of Death, written in the years 1875-77, when he was in serious decline. He would be able to write...
by Aleba Gartner and Phil Kline | Apr 26, 2017 | Song of the Day
Today’s pairing: two lullabies. From Aleba: Sinead O’Connor: My Darling Child All the dark and stormy Sinead stories aside, her voice is something exquisite—and I think never more so than on the album Universal Mother. This was her fourth album, and she dedicated it...
by Aleba Gartner and Phil Kline | Apr 25, 2017 | Song of the Day
Today’s pairing: strange crooners. From Phil: Scott Walker – Farmer in the City Scott Walker became famous in the 1960s as the front man of the English pop band The Walker Brothers (biggest hit “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore,”) none of whom were English,...
by Aleba Gartner and Phil Kline | Apr 24, 2017 | Song of the Day
In our musical household, there’s often a race to see who gets to the “turntable” first. So rather than argue over who got to do which day and which song to pick, we decided to offer song pairings, some linked by theme, time, or place, others by...
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