Where does pianist Ethan Uslan find these gems? Another goody from our evening in the WGBH Fraser Performance Studio called “Downton Abbey Meets The Jazz Age.” exploring some music of…
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Seeing Belafonte @ Berklee yesterday couldn’t help but make me think back to the time when he came to our NPR studios in 2001 to record a couple of programs…
Great love fest and concert last night for the ever-dignified and charismatic Harry Belafonte, the “High School drop out getting an Honorary Degree from Berklee.” At the age of 87,…
Video from our “Evening Inspired By Downton Abbey” in our WGBH Fraser Performance Studio. Melinda Whittington is the soprano giving a great reading of this bluesy Noël Coward number, with…
A 329th birthday nod to Georg Friedrich from our WGBH Fraser Performance Studio, featuring the baroque ensembles Sarasa and Les Sirènes performing “Per abbattere il rigore,” from the two-soprano cantata…
How’s this for a love Song of The Day?
Not quite one year to the day it was published, funnyman writer Gene Weingarten‘s celebrated story about Joshua Bell busking in the Washington Metro wound up as one of six…
WASHINGTON – The reason I’m posting from downtown D.C. this morning has to do with the lady on the left — jazz vocalist Patti Austin, who helped to usher in…
This story, on the other hand, gives me the creeps: From Sirius Satellite Radio comes the announcement that Frank Sinatra will “host” his own radio show: “The Chairman’s Hour” is…