by Charles McKay | Dec 26, 2018 | Song of the Day
Song of the Day is off for the holidays, but we are re-posting a week of holiday songs from NYFOS Managing Director Charles McKay. This post first ran on December 21, 2016. When I knew I was going to offer a week of holiday music, it was a no brainer that one day...
by Charles McKay | Dec 25, 2018 | Song of the Day
Merry Christmas! Song of the Day is off for the holidays, but we are re-posting a week of holiday songs from NYFOS Managing Director Charles McKay. This post first ran on December 20, 2016. I’m offering a full recording today, Gloria, Gloria. It was recorded June...
by Charles McKay | Dec 24, 2018 | Song of the Day
Song of the Day is off for the holidays, but we are re-posting a week of holiday songs from NYFOS Managing Director Charles McKay. This post first ran on December 19, 2016. I’m back for a week of holiday music. First up, Leontyne Price with the Vienna Philharmonic...
by Daniel Reza Sabzghabaei | Dec 21, 2018 | Song of the Day
The final song of the day for this week is Andrea Clearfield’s arresting You Bring Out the Doctor in Me from the 2013 AIDS Quilt Songbook. The AIDS Quilt Songbook (AQSB) is an ongoing, collaborative song cycle that had its initial premiere in Alice Tully Hall in 1992,...
by Daniel Reza Sabzghabaei | Dec 20, 2018 | Song of the Day
Written for soprano/conductor/force of nature Barbara Hannigan, and the Berlin Philharmonic, let me tell you is a song cycle by Dutch composer Hans Abrahamsen on texts from British writer Paul Griffiths 2008 novel of the same name which takes the 481 words Ophelia...
by Daniel Reza Sabzghabaei | Dec 19, 2018 | Song of the Day
The third song this week is the long-form cycle Bīdād (بیداد) “Injustice” by Persian music master vocalist and instrumentalist Mohammad Reza Shajarian (محمدرضا شجریان), and the late Persian composer and santour (a Persian hammered dulcimer) virtuso Parviz Meshkatian...
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