As I was walkin’ round Grosvenor Square Not a chill to the winter but a nip to the air From the other direction she was calling my eye It could be an illusion but I might as well try, might as well try. She had rings on her fingers and bells on her shoes, And [...]
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Song of the day, April 12 2010
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Happy Easter
Posted in Song of the day, Video on 5 April 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Instead of posting a poem by a Pulitzer-prize winning poet today or an aria from one of my favorite operas, I am including an excerpt from my five-year-old nephew’s favorite book, Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Sam is also obsessed with the music of 16-year-old Canadian sensation, Justin Bieber. Special thanks to the Easter Bunny [...]
Dvořák’s “Song to the Moon”
Posted in Song of the day, Video, Voice on 20 March 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Antonin Dvořák’s opera Rusalka is a Czech opera based on a fairytale by a woman named Božena Němcová. It was first performed in Prague in 1901. Rusalka is a water nymph who falls in love with a prince. The name Rusalka means water. She asks the moon to find the man she loves, “Help him [...]
“Mon coeur s’ouvre a ta voix” – Saint Saens
Posted in Song of the day, Video on 9 March 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I rarely post responses people make on my site, but someone wrote in recently and asked what my favorite Marilyn Horne aria is. So many come to mind, but this one more than others. The first time I heard Horne sing this I was standing in Ireland somewhere along the coast of Kerry. It is [...]
Song of the day, Feb. 28 2010
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Willow Song
Posted in Song of the day, Voice on 10 February 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“The Call” by Regina Spektor: Chronicles of Narnia
Posted in Song of the day, Video on 11 December 2009 | Leave a Comment »
[Aslan roars]
Dido and Aeneas: When I am laid in earth
Posted in Song of the day, Video, Voice on 24 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When I am laid, am laid in earth, May my wrongs create No trouble, no trouble in thy breast; Remember me, remember me, but ah! forget my fate. Remember me, but ah! forget my fate. ……………….. by Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Beethoven’s Letter
Posted in Poem of the day, Song of the day, Video on 10 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Oct. 10, 1802 “As the leaves of autumn fall and are withered, so hope has been blighted. Oh, you men who think of say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic. How greatly do you wrong me. For six years, I have been a hopeless case, frustrated by senseless physicians, cheated year after year in [...]
The Flower Duet (‘Sous le dôme épais’) from Lakmé
Posted in Song of the day, Video on 30 September 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Flower Duet Under the thick dome where the white jasmine With the roses entwined together On the river bank covered with flowers laughing in the morning Let us descend together! Gently floating on its charming risings, On the river’s current On the shining waves, One hand reaches, Reaches for the bank, Where the spring sleeps, [...]
