Countermelody devoted to the glories of the human voice raised in song.
This past week the opera world was plunged into mourning over the sudden death of Renata Scotto. Originally I had intended this week’s episode to...
Anita Cerquetti (13 April 1931 – 11 October 2014), the subject of today’s episode, possessed a one in a million voice, enormous, but with prodigious...
Inspired by my holiday in Denmark last week, today I inaugurate a new series on Countermelody called “Nordic Tracks,” featured music from...
From a very young age I was interested in today’s birthday celebrant, the great Gundula Janowitz, at least partially because of a similarity between...
Today’s episode is first and foremost a tribute to a forgotten African American trailblazer, the pop singer Henry Wright, born in 1933, who, in the...