Playlists

In observance of the Independence Day holiday, this week’s Playlist honors America’s rich tradition of song, with works by Bernstein and Stephen Foster, James Erb’s exquisite setting of [...]

In observance of the official return of summer, this week’s Playlist revels in the splendor of the season with the “Summer” portion of Haydn’s The Seasons, R. Murray Schafer’s soundscape on words [...]

This week’s Playlist heralds the transformational power of music and song with works among others by Bach, Bernstein, Paulus, Britten’s Hymn to St. Cecilia, and Vaughan Williams’s [...]

This week's Playlist celebrates spring and love, with the kind assistance of a variety of birds in works by Brahms, Monteverdi, Whitacre, George Shearing and more.

This week's Playlist examines the beauty of humanity, nature and the heavens from the eye of the beholder, with works by Barber, Brahms, Debussy, Lauridsen and more.

Even as we continue to experience loss of life every day to disease, senseless violence and other ways, the theme of this week's Playlist is thankfulness for life.

The seventh Playlist in my series is inspired by the annual observance of Memorial Day and dedicated especially to the memory of the those who have lost their lives in the Coronavirus pandemic.

This week's Playlist, "Out of This World," contemplates outer space and the great beyond through music of the spheres and the heavenly realm.

This fifth Playlist in my series is all about love and its many expressions.

The music of this fourth Playlist in my series depicts the serenity and beauty of nature.