finding someone to bring your vision of the cover art to life, obsessing over the minutiae of a very brief pitch to grab potential readers’ interest on Amazon, and on and on and on, takes a level of dedication you only understand once you’ve done it. ...
“only super-high sopranos, with no medium or lower registers, then I think it will be necessary to give up passionate scenes and dramatic music altogether.”39 Gautier, too, favored the lower female voice, which he praised in his 1847 poem “Contralto,” prob-ably written for his long-...
Listen: La Monte Young: “The Well-Tuned Piano” (Excerpt) Deeper Dive: Songs in the Key of Zzz: The History of Sleep Music 149. Anita Baker: Rapture (1986) The songs on Anita Baker’s second album, Rapture, are all shimmering vehicles for her voice, a contralto as textured and liqui...
The case of Rachel Dolezal, the former head of the Spokane NAACP, who was recently “outed” by her parents as a white person, is being treated in the media as a bizarre instance of deception and fraud. This would make perfect sense if race was a genetically inherited trait. But decades...
6oPILGRIMS’ MARCH singing the evening prayer, excerpt from the symphony (Harold) by M. BERLIOZ. The solo viola will be played by M. ERNST. 7oThe duet fromNormaby Bellini, for soprano and contralto, sung by Mme WIDEMAN and Miss RECIO. ...
Listen: La Monte Young: “The Well-Tuned Piano” (Excerpt) Deeper Dive: Songs in the Key of Zzz: The History of Sleep Music 149. Anita Baker: Rapture (1986) The songs on Anita Baker’s second album, Rapture, are all shimmering vehicles for her voice, a contralto as textured and liqui...