Cause and Effect presents:
Paul Robeson and His Time
Today we listen to Robeson sing timeless protest songs and classic numbers from Hammerstein & Kern’s 1927 musical Show Boat and Gershwin’s 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. Also, performances from Marian Anderson and Roland Hayes, including German lieder and Afrian-American spirituals.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-paul-robeson-said-77742433/
Read about spirituals here: https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200197495/
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/first-performance-porgy-and-bess
DJbob Cause and Effect November 25th, 2023
Posted In: Music, Music Shows
Tags: ibram x. kendi, jerome kern, leontyne price, marian anderson, ol' man river, paul robeson, porgy and bess, roland hayes, show boat
Curved Air presents:
The Women of Richard Strauss, feat. Jessye Norman, Inge Borkh & Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
I’ve burnt myself out on Italian opera, so we are moving on to the Germans. Last week was Wagner, and this week is Strauss.
https://interlude.hk/richard-strauss-and-his-leading-ladies/
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jul/19/rosenkavalier-real-racy-richard-strauss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A4cilie_(Strauss)
Text of Strauss’s final song:
Im Abendrot
German source: Joseph von Eichendorff
Gegangen Hand in Hand,
Vom Wandern ruhen wir
Nun überm stillen Land.Rings sich die Täler neigen,
Es dunkelt schon die Luft,
Zwei Lerchen nur noch steigen
Nachträumend in den Duft.Tritt her, und lass sie schwirren,
Bald ist es Schlafenszeit,
Dass wir uns nicht verirren
In dieser Einsamkeit.O weiter, stiller Friede!
So tief im Abendrot
Wie sind wir wandermüde—
Ist dies etwa der Tod?
At sunset
English translation © Richard Stokes
Through joys and distress,
Now we rest from our wanderings
High above the quiet land.Around us the valleys slope down,
The skies have begun to darken,
Only two larks, recalling a dream,
Soar up into the haze.Come, and leave them to fly,
Soon it will be time to sleep,
We must not lose our way
In this solitude.O vast and silent peace!
So deep in sunset glow,
How weary we are with wandering –
Could this perhaps be death?
DJbob Curved Air November 7th, 2023
Posted In: Music, Music Shows
Tags: ariadne auf naxos, der rosenkavalier, elektra, fritz reiner, inge borkh, jessye norman, karl bohm, leontyne price, richard strauss, salome
Curved Air presents:
The Music of Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) feat. Leontyne Price
Today we hear highlights from Verdi’s 1871 grand opera ‘Aida’…also arias and songs by Puccini, Bellini, with performances by Anna Moffo, Anna Netrebko, and Rosa Ponselle.
[Illustration of Verdi By Théobald Chartran – Vanity Fair, 15 February 1879. Photo of Leontyne Price By John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA – LEOTYNE PRICE, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75843377]
Leontyne Price’s final opera performance, from The Met in 1985:
DJbob Curved Air October 10th, 2023
Posted In: Music Shows
Tags: anna moffo, anna netrebko, georg solti, giuseppe verdi, leontyne price, rosa ponselle, verdi, verdi aida