by Daniel Reza Sabzghabaei | Dec 18, 2018 | Song of the Day
My second choice this week is the tongue-in-cheek song “The Jazz Discharge Party Hats,” by another American, and wearer of many hats, Frank Zappa, from his 1983 release The Man from Utopia. Zappa wrote music in all genres from rock to orchestral, and was noted for the...
by Daniel Reza Sabzghabaei | Dec 17, 2018 | Song of the Day
For Song of the Day all this week, I am going to be giving you five songs, that for me, define and defy the genre, and have been not only influential to me as a composer, but have also changed my view on art as a whole. My first selection is Jewish-American songwriter...
by nyfos | Dec 14, 2018 | Song of the Day
NYFOS offers a week of cold-weather songs as we settle into the winter season. Billie Holiday’s take on this cold weather classic from winter song master Irving...
by nyfos | Dec 13, 2018 | Song of the Day
NYFOS offers a week of cold-weather songs as we settle into the winter season. With a text by Langston Hughes, this song depicts a winter moon as a thin crescent, a rationed portion of a moon for a season when resources grow...
by nyfos | Dec 12, 2018 | Song of the Day
NYFOS offers a week of cold-weather songs as we settle into the winter season. From NYFOS’s recording Unquiet Peace: The Lied Between the Wars, Cyndia Sieden sings “Schlechtes Wetter” by Richard Strauss with Steven Blier at the...
by nyfos | Dec 11, 2018 | Song of the Day
NYFOS offers a week of cold-weather songs as we settle into the winter season. Ray Lustig’s “Velvet Shoes” was selected by then NYFOS program consultant Ben Sosland for the very first NYFOS Next program in 2009. It was so striking that Steven Blier...
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