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The Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach are a pinnacle of music that almost all important pianists have tried to mount. The story goes, albeit regarded as q…

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Our music choice this week wants to put another spotlight on Tennessee singer-songwriter Jennifer Niceley, who we featured in January 2023. There is something quite …

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The war machine is churning again, crunching our assets, our loved ones, our precious time and attention, and our plans for the future. War is of great profit to Mr….

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This week, let’s enjoy some wonderful 1920s music rolling over hills of daffodils in April….

“April Showers” is a song from the 1921 musical Bombo, performe…

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Teenage Dutch singer Emma Kok floors the entire audience during André Rieu’s annual Maastricht concert in July 2023. The song she sings with such striking a…

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It is Good Friday, the day of the Passion of our Lord and a profound event for the Christian believer, for on this day the reversal of darkness into Light was initia…

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We have a particularly fascinating piece for our Music of the Week; both the composition and its delivery are unique and, leading up to Easter week, a profoundly fit…

Asked about the writing of this famous Beatles hit and our choice for Music of the Week, George Harrison said: “It seems as if winter in England goes on forever; by the time spring comes you re…

Jewel Kilcher and Dolly Parton, two superstars of American music, are both daughters of musical parents and singing families. Jewel stems from a Swiss immigrant family and grew up in Alaska. In a…

Rediscovered among the Haverlin/BMI Collection of hundreds of original and rare musical manuscripts and scores donated to the Harvard University Library in 1996, the Mass for Three Voices (Missa …

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There is a profound warmth and joy of life that oozes from traditional Greek rebetiko music. It almost inescapably brings movement and dance to the body. Zorba’s Dan…

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Xerxes was a grand Persian king (and Pharao of Egypt), probably best known to many as Ahasverus (a distorted pronunciation of the original Xšayār̥šā) from the&n…

Tracy Lee Lawrence is a Texas-born country music singer living in Tennessee. He has had numerous songs listed in Billboard’s “Hot Country Songs” charts, with several hitting number one. Law…

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“Óró, sé do bheatha abhaile” is a traditional Irish ballad. Its origins have been lost, but it goes back at least to the 18th century and before, when it was …

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“When I was inspired to write this music, I knew it had to be simple and I knew it had to speak of the great unknown.” ~ Tommy Emmanuel

Tommy Emmanuel is one …

Our Music of the Week is a song from one of Catherine’s favorite movies ever, the Swedish production As It Is in Heaven, a profound and touching film about the power of music. Life changes when…

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Freedom and water are two of the themes that matter most in current Solari commentaries.

Our Music of the Week is a classic of American gospel singing that goes b…

There are a number of compositions in musical history that were attributed to the wrong author. This famous “Ave Maria” is one of them.

Vladimir Fjodorovich Vavilov was not only an exceptional…

Let memories of 2023, and expectations for 2024 be cherished in the presence of those we love.

For auld lang syne, my dear
For auld lang syne
We’ll take a cup o’ kindness yet
For days of auld …

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“Silent Night” was born in Austria. It was one of those cultural miracles of human history that created an indelible impression on the minds and souls of innumerable Christians in Europe and,…

With Catherine traveling to Milan and Paris, we are offering Giuseppe Verdi’s musical contemplation of Mary Queen of Angels as this week’s Christmas music (presented here by Montserrat Caball…

Handel composed the Messiah, an English language oratorio, in 1741 within only 24 days! It is one of the most inspired works of our musical history. The composer concluded the manu…

December music at Solari is dedicated to celebrating Advent and Christmastide. “Advent” means the “arrival” or “coming” and is the time of inward preparation for the coming or the ret…

If you go on a shopping spree in the streets of Dublin these days, chances are that you can hear Allie Sherlock busking some of the great songs of our time.

Allie became a media sensation when…

Originally from Iceland, Kaleo is a rock band of four grade-school friends from a town near Reykjavik, who in 2015 moved to Austin, Texas and started to gain critical acclaim for their creative s…

Michael Sanchez and the Shadow Mountain Choir and Orchestra are performing one of the leading worship hymns to come out in recent years. Written by Andrew Peterson and Ben Shive, the song was fir…

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At the age of 28 and with only four albums released so far, Colter Wall is already a legend. There is something incredibly experienced and authentic in the young man…

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“It’s time to wake the women from the beauty sleep, the heart of Mother Earth is weeping.” ~ Yael Deckelbaum

Our Music of th…

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The Sanctus is a central part of the Christian eucharistic liturgy within all Christian denominations—Eastern, Orthodox, Catholic, Oriental, Ethiopian…. It deriv…

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Our Music of the Week revisits one of the choicest pieces of jazz that has ever seen the light of day, featured on Solari before. Catherine regards it as her favorit…

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All of Eva Cassidy’s (1963-1996) recognition as “one of the most unique, hypnotic, and powerful singers of all time” (producer William Ross) came posthumously. She w…

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My! Britain’s really got talent. Apart from being quite touching to watch his little boy running onto the stage being so proud of his father, this performance by 36-…

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I first heard the Pie Jesu from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Requiem in 1985, soon after it premiered, on a radio show reviewing its first performance at St. Thomas Church …

Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons—a collection of four violin concertos from 1725—do not need a special introduction, as they were and are some of the most famous pieces by the Italian composer …

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This coming week celebrates the beginning of a New Year according to the Jewish liturgical calendar. In all traditions around the world—from Nowruz of Zoroastriani…

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Last week in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City convened for its yearly Symposium. It was the 46th year of the annual forum, and its topi…

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When Catherine travels, she has a wonderful habit of weaving cultural highlights into her itinerary. No work trip with…

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We love the summer months. Let’s soak in as much sun and summer as we can to recharge our batteries of confidence, warmth, and resilience.

What better music than …

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Here is one of those love songs that simply couldn’t have been done better—manifesting the sacred surrender and total transformation of perception that being in lo…

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Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor died of unknown causes at the age of 56.

For our Music of the Week, we chose a song from her lesser-known studio album Universal Mot…

“The best-selling piano recording in history…” is nothing less than the famous 1975 Köln Concert by American jazz pianist Keith Jarrett. Jarrett was a child prodigy who possessed perfect pitch and…

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Last week, Jane Birkin was found dead at her Paris home. She was 76, with her death coming as a surprise to many fans who were anticipating a planned tour of per…

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July is the greatest time in Finland. The days are 23 hours long, and in the far north, the sun never really sets. All Finns celebrate the light. So, it is time for …

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Christian singer and Grammy Award-winner Victory Boyd was supposed to sing the national anthem at last year’s opening NFL game in Tampa, Florida, when the NFL board …

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“Sunshine, she’s here, you can take a break…”

Summer’s arrived! C’mon out into the sun and feel that feeling. Nothing better for a great mood than lots of vitam…

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The initial fanfare of Richard Strauss’ Also sprach Zarathustra is widely known from Stanley Kubrick’s legendary movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Kubrick’s cinematic…

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Felix Maria Woschek has been writing and performing world music with a spiritual touch for over 30 years and has released 16 albums with sacred chants from religions…

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Beautiful and exceptional Swiss alphorn music artist Eliana Burki just died at age 39 from a malignant brain tumor. What a loss. Her funky alphorn style crossed musi…

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Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō

This is the Japanese Buddhist mantra encompassing and expressing the essence of the Lotus Sutra. For over 45 years, Tina Turner drew great…

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“This is what I want in heaven…words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies” ~Tina Turner

A legend has gone from us.

We are using Tina …

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Inspired by the Putumayo World Music collection, our Music of the Week takes us to Cuba and the warm and mellow grooves of Afro-Cuban heritage. We chose a title by C…

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Spring has come, and summer is upon us, so we are going to celebrate the many facets of human life with this extraordinary composition by 20th-century German compose…

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Water and sound have a unique communication. Sound can shape water, as illustrated in cymatics (“the science of sound made visible”) experiments that show amazin…

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Our Music of the Week takes us back to the magical Sixties and one of the great singers of “blue-eyed soul,” jazz, and pop ballads: Dusty Springfield. Elton John cal…

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For our Music of the Week, enjoy this beautiful and very professional hang drum music and take off into your own soundscape of thoughts and blessings, dreaming up yo…

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Last year, popular country songwriter Karen Staley, a 30-year veteran of the Nashville music industry, experienced the honor of having her 2004 composition “I’ll L…

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On this Good Friday, our choice of weekly music is a contemplation of the Name of Jesus in the Hebrew language. Many believe that the sacred Names of God and the Nam…

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Our Music of the Week introduces American singer-songwriter Carrie Newcomer, whose songs bridge the deeply spiritual and the tiny mundane things of life.

Carrie N…

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Christopher Tin conducts one of his own works, here performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and a union of three p…

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First recorded in 1922 by Anna Meyers with the Original Memphis Five quintet, our Music of the Week is one of the great blues classics and a grand song of financial …

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For Music of the Week, we have chosen a uniquely American piece by one of the most American composers of the 20th century, Aaron Copland. Copland was particularly ab…

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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy is regarded as the Mozart of the 19th century, one of the most important composers of the German Romantic period. He started to compose a…

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When Swedes are asked, “What is the best time of summer?”, the answer might be “this Thursday”—it’s that short. No wonder all Scandinavians just love their…

Our Music of the Week comes as special input from a Solari Report viewer. Patricia Morgan describes herself as a “retired church organist/music director, activist, a critical thinker, and a Master …

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It is time to count our blessings; it’s time to look around again and see the good there is. Let’s stand upright in the sunshine. It’s still a wonderful life!
…

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Every five years, something incredibly beautiful happens in Latvia, which is one of the three Baltic countries along with Estonia and Lithuania. It is the celebratio…

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Our Music of the Week is inspired by Dr. Masaru Emoto’s bestselling 2004 book, The Hidden Messages in Water. In it, Emoto demonstrated that a drop of frozen w…

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Rolling Stone counts him among the 100 best artists—and what an artist he was. Curtis Mayfield may be virtually unknown to a younger generation but will be a profo…

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For our music this week, we want to highlight another up-and-coming singer-songwriter, and one from Tennessee. Jennifer Jane Niceley has been writing songs since the…

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For Music of the Week, we have chosen this song of hope by Pelé, the king of football, who died last week at the age of 82. Pelé will also be our Hero of the Week….

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With Catherine once again celebrating New Year’s Eve in Europe, let’s follow another central European tradition for this day—like this week’s movie selec…

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Spem in alium is undoubtedly one of the most famous works in Western classical music. Written in 1570, over 450 years ago, it still fascinates musicians, performers,…

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There is a sacred legend that tells of a miracle when the thorns began to bear roses. For seven years the barren thorn wood had not brought forth a flower. As Mary�…

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This Christmas selection for Music of the Week is a timeless English carol going back to the 17th century. It tells of three naval vessels carrying Jesus, Mary, and …

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This week’s Christmas music selection takes us back to Tennessee—to celebrate home, Christmas, and a great state and people. We want to celebrate Tennessee once …

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We are beginning our music selections for the Christmas season with one of the most widely sung carols in the Christian world, “Adeste Fideles.” Originally compo…

This week’s music is more than a song. It is a cry from the hearts of mothers and fathers. It is a clarion call. And it is a statement of human rights that also formed the motto for the campaig…

Giving thanks for you and everything you are doing in this wonderful world! ~ The Solari Team

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This week’s music selection by Jordan Davis is a touching reminder about the real things in life, the sources of building family wealth, and what truly can give us…

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Our Music of the Week is a joyous performance of a medley of different pieces adapted for and played on the marimba. These girls from Goede Hoop Primary School near …

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With family in Pennsylvania, last week Catherine was able to watch the turning of the leaves in the autumn foliage and enjoyed the start of fox hunting season.

Ca…

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“Rocky Top” is the University of Tennessee’s most popular college football song. Even though it is not the university’s official fight song, it is the most p…

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Our Music of the Week is another Elvis selection, and it is an iconic song from a very special performance.

Elvis had recorded “Can’t Help Falling in Love” …

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Bach’s Concerto No. 1 in D minor (BWV 1052) was originally composed for harpsichord. But the brilliant Latvian organist Iveta Apkalna together with the Frankfurt Rad…

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Wow! What a beautiful song, what profound words, such tenderness and authenticity of emotion, what natural strength and leadership of voice!

This is one of those …

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Belgian singer, songwriter, and actor Jacques Brel was one of the most important representatives of the classical French Chanson movement of the 1950s.

Although B…

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Enya is one of Ireland’s most famous figures. While often being associated with “New Age” or “Celtic” music, her songs touch people from all age groups and…

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Gregorio Allegri composed the Miserere in 1638, but unlike most music of the time, which was performed and then forgotten, this piece continued to be produced long a…

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“When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music.Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sing…

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The mantra Sarvesham Svastir Bhavatu from the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad is one of the most important mantrams of the Hindu religion and has been chanted a my…

Catherine is back at beautiful Lake Constance, and there is music in the air! It is the time of the Bregenz Festival, an outstanding annual cultural event in western Austria that attracts thousan…

Song by Lori B. Williams “We Are The Product They’re Planning To Use”

There’s a saying “If you’re not at the table you’re on the menu”. Who knew that might possibly mean literall…

For Music of the Week, we are offering a much neglected masterpiece by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Based on Shakespeare’s drama The Tempest, this orchestral fantasy, also sometimes regarded as…

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Here he is again, as promised, the countertenor Iestyn Davies, and this time in a most sublime combination with the exceptional classical trumpeter Alison Balsom…

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So I’m just gon’ sittin’ on the dock of the bayWatchin’ the tide roll away, oohI’m sittin’ on the dock of the bay, wastin’ time…

For this week, and while th…

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The “Mass for troubled times”—a magnificent master piece by Austrian composer Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)— is our music of the week.

Writing this mass to…

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Our Music of the Week is a special performance and ancient dance from the historical region of Circassia in the North Caucasus. The Circassians, or Adyghe people…

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Our Music of the Week takes us into space, hyperspace at that, with this incredible rendering of the Interstellar theme by Hans Zim…