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 |  Phil Kline

Phil Kline‘s final Song of the Day this week. Thanks, Phil! “Waterloo Sunset,” Ray Davies, The Kinks Of all the amazing songs that came with the creative expansion of rock and pop music in the late sixties, I can think of none that I love more than Waterloo Sunset by The Kinks. It’s not psychedelic or […]




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(Curator: Phil Kline) “Mysteries of the Macabre” – Gyorgi Ligeti – sung and conducted by Barbara Hannigan My ears perked up when this person I’d never heard of, Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan, did a sparkling turn in the song “Das Himmlische Leben” which concludes Mahler’s Fourth Symphony. I soon learned that she sang a lot […]




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(Curator:  Phil Kline) “Al Atlal” (The Ruins) – poem Ibrahim Nagi, music Riad El-Sonbati – sung by Kalthoum When I was a kid I saw TV footage of four million people crowding the streets of Cairo for the funeral of Oum Kalthoum. I wondered who she was. When I first heard her voice I was […]




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(Curator: Phil Kline) “To Gratiana Dancing and Singing” – William Denis Browne, sung by Ian Bostridge, with Julius Drake, piano. This one always gets me. The poem is by Richard Lovelace and the song alludes to an anonymous allmayne in the Elizabeth Rogers Virginal Book. The composer, William Denis Browne (Denis Browne is his surname) […]




 |  Phil Kline

Welcome to this week’s SOTD curator: composer Phil Kline! Phil’s music has been featured on NYFOS Mainstage programs and he curated the second ever program in our NYFOS Next series for new music. “The Kiss” Judee Sill Judee Sill was one of music’s sadder stories. She grew up in Oakland and spent much of her early […]