The Heart Is a Vessel of Sound
Guest Blog
25 March 2021
Katherine Vaz extols the slow steady pulled-from-the-deep sounds of Amália Rodrigues, Césaria Évora and other fado singers.
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Katherine Vaz extols the slow steady pulled-from-the-deep sounds of Amália Rodrigues, Césaria Évora and other fado singers.
John Michael Cooper celebrates the publication of Margaret Bonds’s settings of poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Rebecca Cypess connects the songs of Madame Brillon (1744–1824) to the ethereal timbre of her favorite instrument—her English square piano.
Darryl Taylor remembers his first teacher as someone who made sure he knew that singing was more than sounding good.
Kay Kaufman Shelemay praises Ethio-American vocalist, singer-songwriter, and composer, Meklit for philosophical and artistic explorations that are literally cosmic in their purview.