Countermelody Podcast
1) Episode 406. Dan’s Belated Birthday Gals (Soprano Edition)
The last of my festive potpourri episodes for this, my birthday month, this episode focuses on a favorite vocal range of this opera queen: the soprano voice, in all its variety and glory. Included are...Show More
2) Episode 405. Rescue Mission (Belated Birthday Edition)
Today’s episode is the latest installment in my series entitled “Rescue Mission,” which reintroduces great singers who have already been featured on the podcast. This is the Belated Birthday edition o...Show More
3) Episode 404. Dan’s Belated Birthday Boys, Baritone Edition
A brand-new episode today inaugurating a series of episodes belatedly celebrating my birthday that will see us through to the end of the month. I have so many singers, composers, and topics in which I...Show More
4) Episode 403. Roberta Alexander In Memoriam
This is an episode I never dreamed I would have to produce. But alas, the great Roberta Alexander has unexpectedly departed this earth this past Tuesday evening, on the three-week anniversary of my be...Show More
5) Episode 402. Ina Souez Revisited
The extraordinary Ina Souez (1903 – 1992), was one of the few Native American singers to achieve worldwide fame on the operatic stage. Though her career was truncated by the collapse of her European c...Show More
6) Episode 401. Sena Jurinac, Liedersängerin
On October 24, we observe the 104th birthday of the nonpareil Croatian soprano Sena Jurinac. Like Hildegard Behrens, whose prowess as a purveyor of art song we explored a few weeks ago, Jurinac was be...Show More
7) Episode 400. Meet Ilse Wolf
German-British soprano Ilse Wolf (07 June 1921 – 06 September 1999) was another fine lyric soprano active primarily in Britain from the 1950s through the early 1980s. One of the reasons she is remembe...Show More
8) Episode 399. Eileen Farrell (Jane’s Divas II)
Today, the day that we lay my beloved mother, Jane Elizabeth Herbst Gundlach, to rest, I offer another tribute to her memory by way of another favorite singer of hers, Eileen Farrell. My mother grew u...Show More
9) Episode 398. Leontyne Price (Jane’s Divas I)
I tried at the end of last week to do a memorial episode honoring my mother who died just a week ago. At the time I couldn’t quite manage it, but I am back again using a different approach: I tell vig...Show More
10) Episode 397. Anna Reynolds Sings Bach and Mahler
As many of you know, my beloved mother died this past week. I’ve been trying for two days now to put together a memorial episode that would do justice to the many divergent aspects of the woman that s...Show More