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I grew up with the sound of tight harmony in my ear from my many mornings in a country church. Every time I hear this song of freedom I can hear my grandmother harmonizing in her tenor voice with the rest of the country choir. ...
What do you get when you google 'summer songs' to close out a week at Song of the Day? Donna Summer. May you be soothed by her dreamy vocals as you cruise down a traffic-free highway to your disco party on the beach. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm-ISatLDG0
Brazilian-American composer/vocalist/pianist Clarice Assad, a NYFOS Next curator and featured composer on our mainstage series in recent years, performs the Brazilian classic "Beatriz" with her father Sergio Assad on guitar....
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 day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ4Z2sBeWeQ
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...
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 humid day, before the singer grows...