Monday Let’s start the week with a little Gershwin!
Tuesday Just happened across this lovely duet in my searches…Will Liverman and Lawrence Brownlee perform "Au fond du temple saint " from The Pearl Fishers by George Bizet. (6:27)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07JydjjiQAA&ab_channel=WillLiverman
After a self-imposed absence, Nadir returns to the shores of Ceylon, where his friend Zurga has just been elected Fisher King by the local pearl fishermen. The two had once fa...
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Jazz
Song of the Day for May 17 – 23, 2021
Monday Sluefoot from Daddy Long Legs (1955) Leslie Caron and Fred Astaire (4:51)
Tuesday Today I’m just going to hand over a big lovely chunk of classics: Ella and Louis – Jazz About Love (53:12)
Wednesday Back to some choral music. I cannot get over how beautiful the work of Morten Lauridsen is. I’ve already shared the last song, “Dirait-on,” (watch out, it gets stuck in your brain!) Here’s the complete set of the Songs of the Roses, performed by the Elora Festival Singer...
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Song of the Day for February 22 – 28, 2021
Monday Recordare from Verdi’s Requiem Martina Arroyo, soprano and Oralia Dominguez, mezzo-soprano. (4:13)
Recall, merciful Jesus,
that I was the reason for your journey:
do not destroy me on that day.
In seeking me, you sat down wearily;
enduring the Cross, you redeemed me:
do not let these pains to have been in vain.
Just Judge of punishment:
give me the gift of redemption
before the day of reckoning.
Tuesday Un bel di vedremo – from Puccini’s Madama Butterf...
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Song of the Day for June 29 – July 5, 2020
Monday I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMvVgpqQE6U&ab_channel=TheLateLateShowwithJamesCorden
Tuesday Shake Sugaree – Rhiannon Giddens (5:14)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLIEIbuh71o&ab_channel=Last.fm
Wednesday Summertime – Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnXLVTi_m_M&ab_channel=PuertoLibre
Thursday How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? Al Green
Frida...
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Song of the Day for May 18 – 24, 2020
Tuesday, May 19 Sull'aria from The Marriage of Figaro, by Mozart (3:00)
Wednesday, May 20 His Eye is on the Sparrow Lauryn Hill, Tanya Blouth (4:17)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H74FBgOZTDw&ab_channel=SAVEDBYGRACE
Thursday, May 21 April in Paris Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong (6:33)
Friday, May 22 Star Wars Theme by One Voice John Williams (1:37)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vckky1pCA9c&ab_channel=MatthewVanNess
Saturday, May 23 Some...
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