In Trutina In trutina mentis dubiafluctuant contrarialascivus amor et pudicitia.Sed eligo quod video,collum iugo prebeo:ad iugum tamen suave transeo. In Balance In the wavering balance of my feelings,set against each other,I am suspendedbetween loveand chastity,but I choosewhat is before meand take upon myself the sweet yoke. Carl Orff (1895-1982)
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In Trutina
Posted in Music of the day, Voice on 14 October 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Anyone Can Whistle
Posted in Music of the day, Video, Voice on 19 May 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Anyone can whistle,That’s what they say-Easy.Anyone can whistleAny old day-Easy.It’s all so simple:Relax, let go, let fly.So someone tell me whyCan’t I?I can dance a tango,I can read Greek-Easy.I can slay a dragonAny old week-Easy.What’s hard is simple.What’s natural comes hard.Maybe you could show meHow to let go,Lower my guard,Learn to be free.Maybe if you [...]
Somebody, Somewhere
Posted in Video, Voice on 29 April 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Frank Loesser (1910-1969) Frank Loesser is one of my favorite American song writers. I once did a Frank Loesser Review with a tenor/piano player friend at several retirement centers in the community for a generation familiar with his music. One of my favorite musical notations is in the inside cover of the sheet music Baby, [...]
What’ll I do?
Posted in Music of the day, Video, Voice on 12 December 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Flower Duet (‘Sous le dôme épais’) from Lakmé
Posted in Video, Voice on 9 November 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Someone asked me to perform this with them recently, and we had our first rehearsal today. It is one of my favorite pieces. In the movie The Hunger, the duet is used as background music for the love scene between Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon. Flower Duet Under the thick dome where the white jasmineWith [...]
Lascia Ch’io Pianga
Posted in Voice on 4 October 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This aria from George Frederic Handel’s opera Rinaldo opened in London in 1710. At that point in Handel’s career, he had composed two Italian operas for Hamburg, two Italian oratorios for Rome and a third Italian Opera for Venice but was still known in England only as a keyboard virtuoso. When he moved to London [...]
Music of the Day, Aug. 2 2010
Posted in Music of the day, Video, Voice on 2 August 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This aria by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) is from La Rondine (the swallow), which premiered in Monte Carlo in 1917. The opera is about a Parisian woman named Magda, who is kept by Rambaldo. She trades places with her maid and has an affair with a sweet, earnest tenor named Ruggero. But when he asks her [...]
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 [...]
Willow Song
Posted in Song of the day, Voice on 10 February 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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)
