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No 2 Gays About It

Tom Burke & Michael Foley

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Who else but two gay guys over 50 with differing backgrounds lifestyles and viewpoints can lead the discussion on the topics important to the over 50 gay community? When it comes to Tom Burke and Michael Foley, there’s definitely No 2 Gays About It!
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Opera - We love singing

Katia Arellano / Ricardo Ramirez

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Music, and more particularly singing is always with us. A certain day we may find ourselves moody and with a melody from La forza del destino playing over and over again in our head. Or maybe we feel like a superhero as we've doing great at work and then we feel like Calaf solving the 3 riddles that Turandot has proposed. First, we would like to build a place where we can talk about our passion for singing in a positive way. There is already too much of those toxic places where we criticize ...
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An exciting new podcast by Marc Eliot Stein of Literary Kicks. Why is opera relevant today? This sometimes-lost art form hides a fascinating, vibrant world. In our first episode, we discuss whether Verdi's Otello is better than Shakespeare's Othello, whether Othello had PTSD, and what it means that Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro is an Italian opera by a German Austrian and a Venetian Jew based on a French play that takes place in Spain. Welcome to the first episode of Lost Music: Exploring Lite ...
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Audio from BBC Ten Pieces - orchestral recordings of Bach, Bizet, Clyne, Haydn, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Vaughan William, Verdi and Wagner featuring the BBC Philharmonic.
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You Don't Know, Nick

Jessica Lynn Verdi & Nick Massouh

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Nick Massouh and Jessica Lynn Verdi unpack our rapidly changing world while examining generational differences. From Boomers to Zoomers, and the hosts who are in between; no subject is off the table, no words are left on the cutting room floor, and conversations are always funny, poignant, thoughtful, and ridiculous every time. Both Nick and Jess are actors and improvisers in the LA area. Nick is a Gen Xer, and Jessica is a Millennial. They are both trying to come to grips with Gen Z.
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Many women find that their first-time birth experience wasn't exactly what they wanted or hoped for. If you'd like more knowledge about how to better prepare for labor and delivery, or want to know that you're not alone on your birthing journey, this podcast is for you. Every episode shares a real-life lesson learned from a real-life labor and delivery experience. Every episode offers the chance to connect with other women, to increase our knowledge of the birthing world, and to advocate for ...
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The Hospitality Collection Podcast represents the Hospitality industry, providing value-adding opportunities to showcase & promote industry-leading vendors. We focus on learning from each others' experiences and focusing on business growth. You'll hear real, raw, & relevant business stories as well as valuable industry education & resources.
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Screaming Into Traffic with Johnny Lopez is a humorous weekly recap of the latest in pop culture, entertainment and gay news from the opinionated mind of celebrity blogger Johnny Lopez. Join LA Lopez and his holy trinity of panelists, Josh Wells, Joshua Rogers and Lou Verdi, as they keep it real, raw and ridiculous.
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The Met: In Focus

The Metropolitan Opera

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In Focus, a new podcast series from the Metropolitan Opera, introduces audience members to the operatic masterpieces presented in the company’s award-winning Live in HD cinema transmissions. Hosted by Met radio commentator and staff writer William Berger, In Focus provides historical context about the works and their creators, as well as insightful commentary about the drama and the music, accompanied by excerpts from past Met performances. For more information and a Live in HD schedule, vis ...
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Opera for Everyone is a radio show and podcast that makes opera understandable, accessible, and enjoyable for all. Pat Wright hosts the show, inviting guest co-hosts to participate in the mission she and Keely Herron developed after lively discussions of operas they had enjoyed seeing together. Music soars. Epiphanies abound. Hilarity ensues. The show airs Sundays from 9.00 a.m. to 11.00 a.m. on 89.1 KHOL in Jackson, Wyoming. Cover artwork by illustrator Rosie Brooks (www.rosiebrooks.com)
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Busy Kids Love Music is a podcast for the whole family, brought to you by Carly Seifert, the creator of Busy Kids Do Piano. Join Carly as she explores musical styles, composers and terms. You'll listen to loads of great music on the way!
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Composers Datebook

American Public Media

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Composers Datebook™ is a daily two-minute program designed to inform, engage, and entertain listeners with timely information about composers of the past and present. Each program notes significant or intriguing musical events involving composers of the past and present, with appropriate and accessible music related to each.
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“Every Voice with Terrance McKnight” is a show that spotlights the vibrant stories and perspectives that reflect the whole of the American musical experience. There are many different kinds of classical music, depending on where you are in the world. While this music typically preserves the traditions of a given society, classical music in America remains wedded to its Western European roots. On this show, we want to know why — and what America’s classical music really sounds like. Through i ...
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The Real Time HealthCare Podcast

Stephen Verdi @ GE HealthCare Command Center

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Healthcare information is everywhere. Insightful, strategic and current healthcare information is not. The Real Time HealthCare Podcast covers insights, analysis and strategies that can help healthcare providers increase capacity, quality and access. Learn more about GE HealthCare Command Centers at https://www.gehccommandcenter.com
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Un podcast per studenti di italiano amanti dell'Italia e curiosi di conoscerla più a fondo. Qui, usiamo la storia per imparare la lingua italiana in contesto, e usiamo l'italiano per parlare di luoghi e persone tra storia, curiosità e memoria. Esploriamo luoghi italiani più o meno famosi attraverso la loro storia e le loro curiosità. Parliamo di eventi storici attraverso la voce di chi li ha vissuti. Condividiamo storie e punti di vista. Livello intermedio - avanzato. SUPPORT THE PODCAST RIC ...
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He Sang/She Sang is a new podcast from WQXR for the opera-curious and opera superfans who want to know what all those big voices are really singing about. The podcast follows the radio broadcast season of the Metropolitan Opera with a weekly roundtable chat that discusses the plots, characters, music, productions, social significance and great performances of that week's opera. Following the Met's radio broadcast season, He Sang/She Sang will dive into the new productions of Wagner’s Tristan ...
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Pastoren & Psykologen

Psykolog Sondre Liverød & Pastor Rune Tobiassen

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Psykolog Sondre Liverød i diskusjon med pastor Rune Tobiassen. En troende og en ikke-troende snakker om de store spørsmålene i livet, og de har helt forskjellige perspektiver. Hva skjer når vi dør? Hva er meningen med livet? Har vi fri vilje? Hvordan kan vi forstå ondskap, og hvordan kan vi bedømme i forhold som angår moral og etikk? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Operina is an opera podcast for kids hosted by soprano Jessica Cambio. It features children from around the world as weekly guests, free to speak in their own language, and it provides tips, language learning, quizzes, and music education about opera and classical music.
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Monday 9 pm & Wednesday 2 pm Longtime friends and opera lovers Octavio Choy and Peter Shimkin want YOU to become an opera fan! In this introductory series, we will present the plots of popular operas along with their musical highlights. We will provide insight to help you appreciate singers and singing in general. You will also learn about the musical style of great composers. All you need to get started is love of the human voice and a great tune. ​
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This Week from China’s National Centre for the Performing Arts showcases the best-in-class musicianship of the orchestra of Beijing’s National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) and its affiliated programmes in choral music, traditional Chinese forms, opera, and more. With a focus on presenting familiar Western masterworks alongside new and traditional Chinese composers, Maestro Lv Jia and the NCPA Orchestra are sure to delight casual listeners and classical aficionados alike.
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Key Change is the COC’s new podcast, offering a fresh take on today's opera issues. Co-hosted by classical singer and culture critic Robyn Grant-Moran, a member of the COC’s Circle of Artists, alongside COC Director/Dramaturg-in-Residence Julie McIsaac, the first season of bi-weekly episodes explores the operagoing experience from a variety of perspectives, with special guests from the opera field and beyond.
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Synopsis Today we dip into the “Composers Mailbag” for two letters, neither of them dealing with significant musical matters, but both (coincidentally) with wine. In a note dated Nov. 2, 1894, Giuseppe Verdi wrote (in his typically blunt style): “Dear Sig. Melani, I received yesterday the cases of wine. Now what is left is to pay for them. Please s…
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Last week, absorbed in preparations for my own birthday, I passed over the birthday of the great Giuseppe Verdi, born 10 October 1813. Two years ago I produced a pair of Verdi episodes, and today I feature the one first published as a bonus episode at that time, which features duets from Luisa Miller, Il Trovatore, La Traviata, Rigoletto, Otello, a…
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Qual era la situazione politica in Italia a cavallo tra ‘800 e ‘900? Chi era Giolitti e perché è stato così importante che gli storici chiamano gli anni tra il 1903 e il 1914 “Età giolittiana”? Perchè così tante persone hanno lasciato l'Italia per emigrare in altri Paesi? Leggi la scaletta della lezione e lascia un commento qui: https://www.italian…
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Welcome to another episode of Busy Kids Love Music, your go-to podcast for introducing young listeners to the world of classical music! In today’s episode, we’re kicking off a new three-part series about one of the most celebrated British composers of the 20th century—Benjamin Britten. What We’ll Explore in this Episode: - Britten’s Early Life & Mu…
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Send us a text In this season we are reviewing the most popular arias of all times. Who doesn't know this aria from Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Maestro Rossini? By far, one of the most attractive and playful melodies ever written for the Mezzosoprano voice. And sopranos have made it part of their repertoire as well. In this season we talk about the …
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Synopsis Today’s date marks the premiere of two works written by émigré composers: one Austrian, the other Chinese. On Nov. 4, 1948, the Albuquerque Civic Symphony gave the first performance of Arnold Schoenberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw, a powerful piece for narrator, chorus and orchestra. Schoenberg had met some survivors of the Nazi pogroms in th…
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As the United States faces its most momentous and contentious election since at least 1968, let’s turn for today to our neighbors to the North to become acquainted with one of their cultural icons: the African Canadian contralto Portia White (1911-1968), the first internationally renowned Black Canadian classical singer, named a “person of national…
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Synopsis Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov might be described as an operatic dynamo: he composed fifteen and had a hand in editing, orchestrating and promoting important operas by his fellow countrymen: Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov and Khovantschina, Borodin’s Prince Igor and Dargomïzhsky’s The Stone Guest. Rimsky-Korsakov’s fifteen operas are…
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In this episode, Tom and Michael take a deep dive into a topic many gay men, especially those over 50, often grapple with: regret. From personal, professional, and sexual regrets to those uniquely colored by LGBTQ+ experiences, they explore the nuances of "gay regret." What types of regret do we carry? And, more importantly, can regret be used to i…
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Synopsis On today’s date in 1738, George Frederick Handel completed one of his first great Biblical oratorios: Israel in Egypt, based on the book of Exodus. At this point in time, British taste for Handel’s Italian-style operas had waned, and, like the filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille some 200 years later, Handel set out to entice his jaded audience back…
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Something a little outside of the normal scope of Countermelody for today’s episode: Earlier this year I published a bonus episode on the fascinating singer/songwriter Benard Ighner (1945-2017) and his modern-day standard “Everything Must Change,” which I re-present today. The song has had a profound effect on me ever since I heard the version by t…
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Synopsis Since today is Halloween, how about a supernatural legend in music? The second of three Fábulas — fables or fantastic stories — for violin and piano by Puerto Rican composer Dan Román is titled La Garita del Diablo or The Devil’s Sentry Box. The old port city of San Juan is surrounded by a fortified stone wall built by the Spaniards to pro…
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Synopsis “From whence cometh song?” asks the opening lines of a poem by American writer Theodore Roethke. That’s a question American composer Ned Rorem must have asked himself hundreds of times, while providing just as many answers in the form of hundreds of his original song settings. About his own music, Rorem tends to be a little reluctant to sp…
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Synopsis On today’s date in 1923, the comedy team of Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles were the star attraction in a new musical called Runnin’ Wild, which opened at the Colonial Theater at Broadway and 62nd Street. In their day, Miller and Lyles were the African-American equivalent of Abbot and Costello or Laurel and Hardy. The plot they crafted fo…
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Two years ago for Halloween, I presented the first of my “Haunted Opera House” episodes. At the time, I had such a plethora of creepy musical material that I produced a bonus episode of material that otherwise would have ended up in the dung heap (like the body of Faust at the end of Schnittke’s Faust Cantata, which closes the episode). We also hea…
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Synopsis On today’s date in 2001, the Present Music ensemble premiered a new piece of music, Flight Box, at the grand opening celebrations for a new art museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The building was designed by Santiago Calatrava, and its roof looks a little like the wings of a large, graceful bird in flight — at least that’s the impression that…
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Synopsis On today’s date in 1993, American composer Daniel Asia conducted the Phoenix Symphony in the premiere performance of his Symphony No. 4. The work included a slow movement, written as an orchestral elegy for his friend and composer colleague, Stephen Albert, who had died in a car crash the previous year. But Asia cast his symphony in the tr…
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Synopsis On today’s date in 1930, The Age of Gold, a new ballet by Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich opened in Leningrad. At that time, it was trendy for Soviet art to extol sporting events, and contrast the wholesome values of the new Soviet society with those of the decadent, bourgeois West. And so, the plot of this new Soviet ballet ran as fol…
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Since Christa Ludwig’s death more than three and a half years ago, her reputation has only increased. A significant portion of that reputation rests on her prowess as a singer of Lieder, a repertoire she took quite seriously and on which she focused a good deal of her performing career, especially in later years. At the time of her death, I publish…
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In this episode, Michael and Tom dive into the hot topic of hooking up vs. dating! They break down the differences, share the pros and cons of today's dating scene, and take a hard look at the common complaints within the over 50 Gay Community. Are we the reason we're bitter about dating, or is it really the people we're meeting? Tune in as we get …
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Synopsis The real story behind Richard Strauss’ decision to use a chamber orchestra for his opera Ariadne on Naxos — which premiered in Stuttgart on today’s date in 1912 — is complicated and a little mundane. We prefer a more “colorful” version that some in Stuttgart have proffered. When a new opera house was being planned for that city, Strauss wa…
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Synopsis On today’s date in 1930, Howard Hanson led the premiere performance of the full orchestral version of William Grant Still’s symphonic poem, Africa at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Still had originally conceived Africa as a chamber work, dedicated to and premiered by great French flutist Georges Barrère earlier that sa…
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Synopsis On today’s date in 1959, the Detroit Symphony, led by eminent French conductor Paul Paray, gave the first performance of new music by American composer Walter Piston. He had studied in Paris with famous French composition teacher Nadia Boulanger and great French composer Paul Dukas, so perhaps this was an astute paring of composer and cond…
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