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Christopher Reynolds' final pick of the week for August 14. If there’s anything Jessye Norman is known for, it’s taking things slow. The breath control this woman has could probably supply power to a small village for a week. While sometimes it can be overbearing, at...
(Curator: Christopher Reynolds) This song has been covered by many an artist including Duke Ellington and Stanley Worth. There is something about k.d. lang’s rendition here that resonates with me. Her voice here is delirious, drunk on the fumes of love. She slips in...
(Curator: Christopher Reynolds) Leontyne Price is the love of my life. I find myself coming back to her in times of trouble, in times of happiness, in times of doubt. Price and the German language are not two things usually thought of as going together, as she made...
(Curator: Christopher Reynolds) Beverly Sills was one of the first singers I fell in love with. I was sitting in freshman music history at Juilliard when my teacher introduced us to an opera I had never heard of – “Roberto Devereux.” He showed us a video of a 1975...
This week's Song of the Day selections come from pianist and NYFOS Emerging Artist alum Christopher Reynolds. Here's his pick for August 10th: One can never have too much Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. One of the qualities I so admire in her voice is the ability to suddenly...