Listen "Music for a While #74: Speak low, speak high"
Episode Synopsis
Jay concludes this episode with “Speak Low,” the Kurt Weill song (lyrics by Ogden Nash). Before that, you have any number of other interesting things. Well, a specific number: six. A very tasty menu of music.
Handel, “The Harmonious Blacksmith”
Strauss, “Malven”
Boccherini-Berio, “Ritirata notturna di Madrid”
García Lorca, “Sevillanas”
Wagner, “Lohengrin,” Prelude to Act III
Wolf, “Die Spröde”
Weill & Nash, “Speak Low”
Handel, “The Harmonious Blacksmith”
Strauss, “Malven”
Boccherini-Berio, “Ritirata notturna di Madrid”
García Lorca, “Sevillanas”
Wagner, “Lohengrin,” Prelude to Act III
Wolf, “Die Spröde”
Weill & Nash, “Speak Low”
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