Listen "Music for a While #47: Just perfect"
Episode Synopsis
When Jay says “just perfect,” in this episode, he is referring to Marilyn Horne’s singing of “At the River.” This is the piece that ends the podcast. It’s a little Independence Day nod. Elsewhere, Jay discusses and plays a Debussy song, two famous guitar pieces, and a piano piece by Frederic Rzewski, the American composer (also a political radical), recently deceased. A neat, varied, interesting, and enriching program.
Debussy, “La mer est plus belle que les cathédrales”
Villa-Lobos, Prelude No. 5
Rzewski, “Down by the Riverside”
Barrios, “Julia Florida”
Lowry, arr. Copland, “At the River”
Debussy, “La mer est plus belle que les cathédrales”
Villa-Lobos, Prelude No. 5
Rzewski, “Down by the Riverside”
Barrios, “Julia Florida”
Lowry, arr. Copland, “At the River”
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