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Recent Episodes

Episode 41. Ira Siff: La Gran Scena and Beyond

Posted June 28, 2020 • 01:48:28

Today’s episode is an interview I did with Ira Siff, artistic director of La Gran Scena Opera Company di New York, alter ego of the beloved “traumatic...

Episode 40. Sisters in Sappho [Queer Pride I]

Posted June 21, 2020 • 01:48:57

The first of my two Queer Pride episodes is devoted to a group of pioneering lesbians in the 1970s and beyond, in both classical and pop music. Two...

Episode 39. Pathos à la Cotrubas

Posted June 14, 2020 • 01:47:10

Several weeks ago I began a series on particular vocal and artistic qualities that I find most important in a singer’s artistic profile. I had already...

Episode 38. Something in the Air

Posted June 7, 2020 • 01:50:20

This week I continue our exploration of the movement for social justice as expressed in song. This constitutes not just the fight in the United States...

Episode 37. No More Slavery Chains

Posted May 31, 2020 • 01:10:11

I woke up this morning intending to produce an episode on French Glamour. Because I had been keeping my head in the sand over the past several days,...