Manual de Falla:  Nana

Manual de Falla: Nana

When a singer welcomes a child into the family, there are many nights of baby-rocking that put to practical use the collection of lullabies learned for the recital stage. De Falla’s “Nana” was a song I had performed only once as a student at Tanglewood Music Center,...
Lullabies

Lullabies

Today’s pairing: two lullabies.  From Aleba: Sinead O’Connor: My Darling Child All the dark and stormy Sinead stories aside, her voice is something exquisite—and I think never more so than on the album Universal Mother. This was her fourth album, and she dedicated it...