by Justine Aronson | May 12, 2017 | Song of the Day
In 1925, Kentucky explorer and caver Floyd Collins lost his footing at the end of an expedition. His left leg pinned underneath a 16-pound rock, Collins was trapped in a narrow tunnel, unable to move, and after 17 days (13 of which were without food or water) he left...
by Justine Aronson | May 11, 2017 | Song of the Day
“Ich denke diess, und denke dass, ich sehne mich, als weiss nicht recht nach was: halb ist es Lust, halb ist es Klage” “I think about this and that, I feel a longing, but don’t know exactly what for: half is joy, half is pain.” Hugo Wolf...
by Justine Aronson | May 10, 2017 | Song of the Day
In the spring of 2012, I got a real bad case of The Blues. I had just finished grad school and felt like I was supposed to be “done” – a perfect, polished adult, with a budding singing career. Objectively, things weren’t too bad. I was living...
by Justine Aronson | May 9, 2017 | Song of the Day
I love a song that will always make me cry. One of my most tried and true waterworks wranglers is Charles Ives’ simple ode to two little girls in his life, “Two little flowers (and dedicated to them)” (1921), performed here by the excellent Bill...
by Justine Aronson | May 8, 2017 | Song of the Day
Here at NYFOS (where indeed, no song is safe from us), we ask the big questions. Why song? What does a song do? Why do we love singing songs? Why these little nuggets of extended and expanded time and elevated text? Why do I, a professional singer, love singing songs?...
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