by nyfos | Jul 17, 2019 | Song of the Day
Elly Ameling and Dalton Baldwin perform this sweet mélodie by Gabriel Fauré with text by Leconte de Lisle. A cool breeze of a song on a hot...
by nyfos | Jul 16, 2019 | Song of the Day
This has been stuck in our heads since watching the recent tv series Fosse/Verdon. That noise! That vocal car horn of a sound! Where did come from? How did it end up in the show? Why?!? Better to give up the questions and just enjoy the dance. Bob Fosse and Gwen...
by nyfos | Jul 15, 2019 | Song of the Day
A selection from Karol Szymanowski’s sensual and obsessive song cycle Songs of the Infatuated Muezzin,”W południe” (“At Noon”) opens in a city “white with heat.” Its descending phrases capture the languid, wilting feeling of a...
by Sari Gruber | Jul 12, 2019 | Song of the Day
With this final Song of the Day, I want to return to my deepest musical roots, and I have been agonizing about this selection, which could have been of any of the great classical composers. Mozart would have been an obvious choice, since his music has followed me...
by Sari Gruber | Jul 11, 2019 | Song of the Day
Sarah Vaughan’s voice became one of the objects of my jazz obsession in college, where I was spending far more time than was probably good for me singing jazz in an a capella group called Redhot & Blue. (The arrangements were great. Don’t judge.) With the high...
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