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Music of the Week: March 28, 2025: Alexia Chellun – Together
Let’s have another one of those wonderfully simple, soul-filled songs that carry a magic that will unnoticeably uplift the heart.
Music of the Week: March 21, 2025: Misen Groth – Forgiveness
For Music of the Week, we are listening to the opening theme song, “Forgiveness,” of a Danish TV crime series, The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey. The song was written by acclaimed Danish film composer and Emmy Award winner Jacob Groth. Groth has composed the music score for over 30 movies, among them the famous trilogy, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, based upon the bestselling crime novels by legendary Swedish writer Stieg Larsson.
Music of the Week: March 14, 2025: The Wanamaker Pipe Organ
We are as much dismayed as Solari Report ally Dr. Joseph Farrell at the sad news that the three-story Macy’s in Philadelphia’s famous Wanamaker building (originally the Wanamaker Department Store) will close in March 2025.
Music of the Week: December 3, 2024: Hulda Nystrom’s Songs
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Music of the Week: November 8, 2024: Sara Morgan – The More I Make
https://youtu.be/pPekp5vnwrA
Sara Morgan, country artist and songwriter from Arkansas, has a great way of packing irony with truth and depth. Her voice with country-style guitar is the ideal ins…
Music of the Week: November 1, 2024: Frédéric Chopin – Piano Concerto No. 2
https://youtu.be/OQr32D8jukk
It is 175 years since the grand master of piano music, Frédéric Chopin, died in Paris on October 17, 1849. Though he was only 39 years old when he died, he revolut…
Music of the Week: October 25, 2024: Bible in Song – I Know the Plans I Have for You
https://youtu.be/nBZypA54xZ0
Jeremiah 29:11-14“For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “Plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. Plans for good an…
Music of the Week: October 18, 2024: Archdeacon Roman Tamberg & Art Group Largo – To My Brothers
https://youtu.be/4pzbQjs_sC8
Found on Celia Farber’s Substack, we are offering this profound piece of music from Russia composed by late priest and songwriter Archdeacon Roman Tamberg and rece…
Music of the Week: October 11, 2024: Glenn Miller – Shhh, It’s A Military Secret
https://youtu.be/_Ym7QV3Rm_Y
What is really happening in North Carolina? Hurricane Helene took a very unusual path. Even days after the devastating event, reports are coming in of people being n…
Music of the Week: October 4, 2024: Celia Woodsmith and Jason Anick – Seapoint
https://youtu.be/5Ohw3cboblk
Jason Anick is a favorite among some of the Solari team who know and appreciate him personally as a generous mentor and teacher to young musicians and wonderful viol…
Music of the Week: September 27, 2024: Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 1
Gustav Mahler’s first symphony is, in our opinion, one of those compositions that should be heard in a live performance to appreciate its unique and sometimes sudden variations of tempo, instrument…
Music of the Week: September 20, 2024: Henry Purcell – Strike the Viol
https://youtu.be/cbJUZiSs_j4
Our Music of the Week comes as a suggestion from a subscriber, and what a beautiful recommendation it is. We are hearing the young musicians of Academy Baroque Soloi…
Music of the Week: September 13, 2024: Biko’s Manna – Don’t Worry, Be Happy
https://youtu.be/R3FFP_ihXsc
Even though they dropped out in the Quarterfinals of Season 19 of America’s Got Talent, this South African band of three young siblings—Biko, Manna, and Mfundo…
Music of the Week: September 6, 2024: Lynda Tait Randle – God on the Mountain
https://youtu.be/RCTl4tUYIAg
Catherine is on her home turf in Tennessee this weekend, meeting and greeting with our special Solari subscribers from the area.
With this week’s music, we trav…
Music of the Week: August 30, 2024: Antonín Dvořák – Carnival Overture
https://youtu.be/a1jNQgTVYrY?t=2
The great Czech nationalist composer Antonín Leopold Dvořák (1841-1904) wrote his Carnival Overture as the second of three overtures that he conceived origina…
Music of the Week: August 23, 2024: Kelly Newton-Wordsworth – The Forest of the Fallen
https://youtu.be/Uz0Q4cXG5EE
In 1988, singer and songwriter Kelly Newton-Wordsworth from Western Australia gave her life to God and asked him to show her how to do his will. The first thing he d…
Music of the Week: August 16, 2024: Southern Raised – Take Me Home, Country Roads
https://youtu.be/GGzj37OgQNI
Catherine is back in the United States (welcome home, Catherine!) and is taking to the road again on the great Financial Transaction Freedom tour.
She is going to…
Music of the Week: August 9, 2024: Icelandic Folk Song – Á Sprengisandi
https://youtu.be/NTKtmQQaJYE
With Catherine speaking in Reykjavík, Iceland this weekend, today’s Friday music presents us with one of the most popular Icelandic folk songs that locals still sin…
Music of the Week: August 2, 2024: Camille Pépin – The Sound of Trees: Apaisé, boisé
Don’t we love the summer months, when we soak in as much sun and summer as we can to recharge our batteries of confidence, lightness, and resilience.
Our Music of the Week by French contempora…
Music of the Week: July 26, 2024: Carl Maria von Weber – Der Freischütz
https://youtu.be/8GQcGvtYP9Q
Our music this week is determined by Catherine’s visit to Lake Constance and the Bregenz Festival. Last night, after an afternoon “Meet & Greet” with European So…
Music of the Week: July 19, 2024: 40 Fingers – Sound of Silence & Last of the Mohicans
https://youtu.be/vOd6QAuK2YE
Four good-looking Italians with 10 virtuosic fingers each will make your nerve strings vibrate. Enjoy their live performance of a felicitous medley of two iconic bal…
Music of the Week: July 12, 2024: Pater Manuel and Band – Heast as ned
https://youtu.be/3h8lgVaX8TE
Anybody who understands these simple words in the Austrian-German dialect—“Heast as ned” or “Don’t you hear it?”—is immediately captivated. This is a g…
Music of the Week: July 5, 2024: Voices of Concinnity – This Is My Song
https://youtu.be/0CuvFMwrEN0
Celebrating the great American day of independence on this 4th of July, 2024, we are choosing to honor the freedom of all peoples. We think of the sacrifices and her…
Music of the Week: June 28, 2024: Maria Callas – Ebben? Ne andrò lontana
https://youtu.be/-pkNpl-tZIw
Maria Callas was born in December 1923 to Greek immigrants in New York. The rest is history.
Maria Callas was, for many, the greatest opera singer and soprano of …
Music of the Week: June 21, 2024: Joey & Rory – Let It Be Me
https://youtu.be/Tbsk_-v6N6w
This country and Christian music vocal duo was the real husband-and-wife duo, Joey and Rory Feek. The song they sing, friends and fans will attest, is a genuine expr…
Music of the Week: June 14, 2024: Samuel Barber – Adagio for Strings
https://youtu.be/WAoLJ8GbA4Y
Samuel Barber’s Adagio, originally written as part of his String Quartet and later arranged for string orchestra, is one of classical music’s most outstanding lyrica…
Music of the Week: June 8, 2024: Anton Bruckner – Symphony No. 8
https://youtu.be/FjNP4Wkd7xw
Austrian symphonic and religious composer Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) was one of the profound innovators of the classic symphony and a musical genius who, accordi…
Music of the Week: May 31, 2024: Alison Krauss – Down in the River to Pray
https://youtu.be/zSif77IVQdY
The Solari Team is celebrating and we are dedicating our Music of this week to two very special occasions. One of our core team members is being baptized this weeken…
Music of the Week: May 24, 2024: Once Upon a Time in the West – Katica Illényi on the Theremin
Beautiful Katica Illényi is an outstanding Hungarian violin player, singer, and theremin player who graces our music selection for this week.
The theremin is a fascinating instrument that is …
Music of the Week: May 17, 2024: Hildegard von Bingen – De Spiritu Sanctus
https://youtu.be/HYzPR0nwcmY
Seven weeks after Passover (Easter), it is the festival of Pentecost, also known as Whitsun—White Sunday—in the Anglican church. It is a highly significant holy …
Music of the Week: May 10, 2024: Adele – Rolling in the Deep
https://youtu.be/-fmCoUjOMXU
It is called “crossover” when an artist or music genre appeals to different types of audiences. Adele—deservedly acclaimed as one of today’s great vocalists—is…
Music of the Week: May 3, 2024: Goldberg Variations (BWV 988) by Johann Sebastian Bach
https://youtu.be/q-JDZP244Z4
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…
Music of the Week: April 26, 2024: Jennifer Jane Niceley – Desert Dreams
https://youtu.be/xIlclBq49t4
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 …
Music of the Week: April 19, 2024: Marlene Dietrich – Sag mir wo die Blumen sind
https://youtu.be/AybZIw8BRIM
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….
Music of the Week: April 12, 2024: Al Jolson – April Showers
https://youtu.be/_79KIZ1IKcE
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…
Music of the Week: April 5, 2024: Emma Kok – Voilà
https://youtu.be/KdIhq1tb8Co?t=114
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…
Music of the Week: March 29, 2024: Richard Wagner – Karfreitagszauber from Parsifal
https://youtu.be/QxNIwAxbWsY
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…
Music of the Week: March 22, 2024: Nathalie Stutzmann – Erbarme Dich
https://youtu.be/Jeil9S2exIU
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…
Music of the Week: March 15, 2025: Here Comes the Sun – The Petersens
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…
Music of the Week: March 8, 2024: Jewel ft. Dolly Parton – My Father’s Daughter
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…
Music of the Week: March 1, 2024: Antonio Lotti – Missa a tre cori
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 …
Music of the Week: February 23, 2024: Zorba’s Dance – Flashmob
https://youtu.be/M7Ny8kgjDlc
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…
Music of the Week: February 16, 2024: G. F. Händel – Ombra mai fu
https://youtu.be/FD8eL-1a0As
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…
Music of the Week: February 9, 2024: Tracy Lawrence – For the Love
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…
Music of the Week: February 2, 2024: Seo Linn – Óró Sé do Bheatha Bhaile
https://youtu.be/bzXswoAUi0U
“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 …
Music of the Week: January 26, 2024: Lewis & Clark – Tommy Emmanuel
https://youtu.be/TQMYgMMNT0w
“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 …
Music of the Week: January 19, 2024: Gabriella’s Song
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…
Music of the Week: January 12, 2024: Wade in the Water – The Staple Singers
https://youtu.be/WDp1v2YgseM
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…
Music of the Week: January 5, 2024: Ave Maria – Nina Solodovnikova
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…
Hulda Nystrom’s Songs
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Chooin’ on It – duet
December 28, 2023
Chooin’ on It
June 15 & September 21, 2023
Stepping Out
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Music of the Week: December 29, 2023: Crowder – Auld Lang Syne
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 …
Christmas with J.S.Bach
German: The Frauenkirche in Dresden. The dome of the after reconstruction shows paintings. The paintings were created by Christoph Wetzel.
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Rel…
Music of the Week: December 22, 2023: Stille Nacht
“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,…
Music of the Week: December 15, 2023: Giuseppe Verdi – La Vergine degli Angeli
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…
Music of the Week: December 8, 2023: G.F. Händel – For Unto Us A Child Is Born
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…
Music of the Week: December 1, 2023: Zach Williams – The Call of Christmas
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…
Music of the Week: November 24, 2023: Allie Sherlock – Hallelujah
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…
Music of the Week: November 17, 2023: Kaleo – Way Down We Go
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…
Music of the Week: November 10, 2023: Is He Worthy?
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…
Music of the Week: November 03, 2023: Colter Wall – Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
https://youtu.be/6Zpz5wgwt2Y
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…
Music of the Week: October 27, 2023: Yael Deckelbaum – Prayer of the Mothers
https://youtu.be/YyFM-pWdqrY
(Please switch on subtitles)
“It’s time to wake the women from the beauty sleep, the heart of Mother Earth is weeping.” ~ Yael Deckelbaum
Our Music of th…
Music of the Week: October 20, 2023: Charles Gounod – Sanctus
https://youtu.be/-xON2cqEJxc
The Sanctus is a central part of the Christian eucharistic liturgy within all Christian denominations—Eastern, Orthodox, Catholic, Oriental, Ethiopian…. It deriv…
Music of the Week: October 13, 2023: Compared to What
https://youtu.be/kCDMQqDUtv4
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…
Music of the Week: October 6, 2023: Eva Cassidy – Autumn Leaves
https://youtu.be/xXBNlApwh0c
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…
Music of the Week: September 29, 2023: Gamal John sings “It’s a Man’s World”
https://youtu.be/Ni4pMDeEUc4
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-…
Music of the Week: September 22, 2023: Malakai Bayoh sings Pie Jesu
https://youtu.be/gqVRAE9xFLc
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 …
Music of the Week: September 15, 2023: Antonio Vivaldi – Autumn (from The Four Seasons)
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 …
Music of the Week: September 8, 2023: B’Sefer Chaim
https://youtu.be/eUyzuCUdSGU
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…
Music of the Week: September 1, 2023: A Change Is Gonna Come – George Winston
https://youtu.be/ozNUo4OXZrI
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…
Music of the Week: August 25, 2023: Jean Sibelius – Symphony No. 7 in C Major
https://youtu.be/pw-GkVqIoB4?list=OLAK5uy_n01d6BVq5lEpV5XUkl4h1eXslj5jw4HSI
When Catherine travels, she has a wonderful habit of weaving cultural highlights into her itinerary. No work trip with…
Music of the Week: August 18, 2023: Ludwig van Beethoven – Pastoral Symphony
https://youtu.be/n7-XodDJHJc
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 …
Music of the Week: August 11, 2023: Luke Combs – Beautiful Crazy
https://youtu.be/rItv9i6c7AY
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…
Music of the Week: August 4, 2023: Sinéad O’Connor – In This Heart
https://youtu.be/J0fEQ3gXSmk
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…
Music of the Week: July 28, 2023: Keith Jarrett – The Köln Concert
“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…
Music of the Week: July 21, 2023: Jane Birkin – Fuir le bonheur de peur qu’il ne se sauve
https://youtu.be/cU4y4Hl59Ck?t=1
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…
Music of the Week: July 14, 2023: Jean Sibelius – Violin Concerto in D Minor
https://youtu.be/gpS_u5RvMpM
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 …
Music of the Week: July 7, 2023: The Star-Spangled Banner – Victory Boyd
https://youtu.be/-4CD6No7B6o
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 …
Music of the Week: June 30, 2023: Pharrell Williams – Happy
https://youtu.be/ZbZSe6N_BXs
“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…
Music of the Week: June 23, 2023: Also sprach Zarathustra – Richard Strauss
https://youtu.be/GfwAPg4rQQE?t=3
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…
Music of the Week: June 16, 2023: Felix Maria Woschek – Kyrie
https://youtu.be/9f_zQrh7rW0
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…
Music of the Week: June 9, 2023: Eliana Burki – Concert for Alphorn and Orchestra
https://youtu.be/fXRLjVJQisw
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…
Music of the Week: June 2, 2023: Tina Turner – Lotus Sutra
https://youtu.be/OBgN849_nOs
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…
Music of the Week: May 27, 2023: Tina Turner – Wildest Dreams Concert
https://youtu.be/o59m-eGD56g
“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 …
Music of the Week: May 20, 2023: Eliades Ochoa – Al Vaivén de Mi Carreta
https://youtu.be/UXMyK6hbQZc
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…
Music of the Week: May 12, 2023: Carl Orff – Carmina Burana
https://youtu.be/dmdv17avTGk
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…
Music of the Week: May 5, 2023: G.F. Händel – Water Music
https://youtu.be/1h4mAceHmrI
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…
Music of the Week: April 28, 2023: Dusty Springfield – The Windmills of Your Mind
https://youtu.be/qKV9bK-CBXo
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…
Music of the Week: April 21, 2023: Malte Marten – Handpan Music for Meditation
https://youtu.be/dgT9gRoJY20
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…
Music of the Week: April 14, 2023: I’ll Leave My Heart in Tennessee
https://youtu.be/FHIz-7wWq14
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…
Music of the Week: April 7, 2023: Harpa Dei – Yeshua
https://youtu.be/9N62T5u4isU
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…
Music of the Week: March 31, 2023: Carrie Newcomer – “You Can Do This Hard Thing”
https://youtu.be/PRGnftH_g4I
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…
Music of the Week: March 24, 2023: Christopher Tin – Waloyo Yamoni
https://youtu.be/XH6IT_tsSUI
Please switch on captions for English lyrics!
Christopher Tin conducts one of his own works, here performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and a union of three p…
Music of the Week: March 17, 2023: Ain’t Nobody’s Business
https://youtu.be/LKG9xInUpa4
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 …
Music of the Week: March 10, 2023: Aaron Copland – Hoe-Down
https://youtu.be/5dQ55uHYirk
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…
Music of the Week: March 3, 2023: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy – Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen
https://youtu.be/40CnTO3EJHw
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…
Music of the Week: February 24, 2023: Wilhelm Peterson-Berger – Intåg i Sommarhagen
https://youtu.be/mWrj1V5gsR8
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…
Music of the Week: February 17, 2023: “Pray Big. Resist. Stand Firm” by Pat Morgan
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 …
Music of the Week: February 10, 2023: Wonderful Life
https://youtu.be/1H4wgcXh1u4
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!
…
Music of the Week: February 3, 2023: Lec, Saulite!
https://youtu.be/pTy_uz2zHJk
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…
Music of the Week: January 27, 2023: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony No. 40
https://youtu.be/_JAPx7_ra_A?t=37
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…
Music of the Week: January 20, 2023: Curtis Mayfield – People Get Ready
https://youtu.be/1vP6IWjqn8o
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…
Music of the Week: January 13, 2023: Jennifer Jane Niceley – Flight Patterns
https://youtu.be/gT7xdG1awBI
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…
Music of the Week: January 6, 2023: Pelé – Esperança
https://youtu.be/b6-h8WS5LlA
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….
Music for New Year’s Eve: December 31, 2022: Johann Strauss – The Blue Danube
https://youtu.be/12wLBy5xEvg
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…
Music of the Week: December 30, 2022: Spem in Alium – Thomas Tallis
https://youtu.be/nMl8lnG2oCo
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,…
Music of the Week: December 23, 2022: Helene Fischer – Maria durch ein Dornwald ging
https://youtu.be/M5KoWHa7SOI
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…
Music of the Week: December 16, 2022: I Saw Three Ships – Nat King Cole
https://youtu.be/A9fselTsYSE
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 …
Music of the Week: December 9, 2022: Tennessee Christmas
https://youtu.be/RyqcawfAQI0
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 …
Music of the Week: December 2, 2022: Adeste Fideles
https://youtu.be/B1bLxrZEy4g
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…
Music of the Week: November 25, 2022: Hands Off Our Children by Joydah Mae
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…
“Thanksgiving Song” – Mary Chapin Carpenter
Giving thanks for you and everything you are doing in this wonderful world! ~ The Solari Team
Related Reading:
Mary Chapin Carpenter’s Official Website
Mary Chapin Carpenter on Wikipedia…
Music of the Week: November 18, 2022: Buy Dirt by Jordan Davis
https://youtu.be/AKec3LTILRU
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…
Music of the Week: November 11, 2022: Marimba Medley by Goede Hoop Marimba Band
https://youtu.be/5KrGARNpqj4
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 …
Music of the Week: November 4, 2022: W.A. Mozart – Horn Concerto No. 4 – Rondo
https://youtu.be/gdjuKisO_Rc
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…
Music of the Week: October 28, 2022: Rocky Top
https://youtu.be/nQPOTUJZO2M
“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…
Music of the Week: October 21, 2022: Elvis Presley – Can’t Help Falling in Love
https://youtu.be/GSaxhqJG1Mw
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” …
Music of the Week: October 14, 2022: Sissel – Oh Shenandoah
https://youtu.be/W1EG_4IBzbA
This popular American folk song goes back to the American and Canadian fur traders, called the voyageurs (from the French meaning “travelers”), who traded otter,…
Music of the Week: October 7, 2022: Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto in D-minor adapted for Organ
https://youtu.be/A5_5NS4Fh1g
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…
Music of the Week: September 30, 2022: Connie Francis: The Impossible Dream
https://youtu.be/NFtlv4gvoaE
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 …
Music of the Week: September 23, 2022: Jacques Brel: Ne me quitte pas
https://youtu.be/q_bq5mStroM
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…
Music of the Week: September 16, 2022: Enya – How Can I Keep From Singing
https://youtu.be/MM8mOKfxmWw
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…
Music of the Week: September 9, 2022: Gregorio Allegri – Miserere
https://youtu.be/IA88AS6Wy_4
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…
Music of the Week: September 2, 2022: Johnny Cash: The Legend of John Henry’s Hammer
https://youtu.be/Ppa__7ZLAU8
“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…
Music of the Week: August 26, 2022: Tina Turner – Sarvesham Svastir Bhavatu
https://youtu.be/6XP-f7wPM0A
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…
Music of the Week: August 19, 2022: “Un bel dì, vedremo” (Madama Butterfly Aria)
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”
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…
Music of the Week: August 12, 2022: P.I. Tchaikovsky: The Tempest
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…
Music of the Week: August 5, 2022: G.F. Händel: Eternal Source of Light Divine
https://youtu.be/fCSQd8Nx4mI
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…
Music of the Week: July 29, 2022: Sittin’ On The Dock Of The Bay (Song Around the World)
https://youtu.be/Es3Vsfzdr14
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…
Music of the Week: July 22, 2022: Joseph Haydn: Missa in angustiis
https://youtu.be/O1lGDuB9NP8
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…
Music of the Week: July 15, 2022: Circassian Dance of the Nobility
https://youtu.be/Nl9uWRu0fo4
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…
Music of the Week: July 8, 2022: Interstellar Theme on Organ
https://youtu.be/AZ2p1dWiFu8
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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…
Music of the Week: July 1, 2022: Heinrich Schütz: Auf dem Gebirge
https://youtu.be/4cR2mw0r488
Are we watching a new Massacre of the Innocents? As 3,000 credentialed doctors, lawyers, and scientists plow through 55,000 Pfizer documents in a volunteer effor…
Music of the Week: June 24, 2022: Sergei Teleshev – J. S. Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor on Accordion
https://youtu.be/eDFFUIGoBUc
The Toccata and Fugue in D minor by Johann Sebastian Bach is among the most popular pieces of Baroque and organ music today. It is hard to imagine that it was al…
Music of the Week: June 17, 2022: Zager & Evans – In the Year 2525
https://youtu.be/O4U78n4WmVo
This week’s music is one of those one-hit wonders that are ahead of their time when they come out and continue to be so even decades later. Rick Evans of Zager…
Music of the Week: June 10, 2022: Arcangelo Corelli – Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 4
https://youtu.be/3smZkpqXYHs
The Music of the Week presents us with Arcangelo Corelli’s Concerto Grosso No. 4 in D major. It is one of 12 Concerti Grossi that are known as Opus 6 of Corell…
Music of the Week: June 3, 2022: Vangelis – Chariots of Fire
https://youtu.be/8a-HfNE3EIo
In honor of Greek composer of electronic and ambient music, Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou—better known as Vangelis—we have selected this classic piece…
Music of the Week: May 27, 2022: Zach Williams, Dolly Parton – There Was Jesus
https://youtu.be/37wV6D49iEY
… In the waiting, in the searching
In the healing, in the hurting
Like a blessing buried in broken pieces …
There was Jesus.
In this inspiring song by Christi…
Music of the Week: May 20, 2022: Lavinia Meijer plays Philip Glass: Metamorphosis II
https://youtu.be/hV2-zFh3tAU
Another beautiful “minimalist” piece of music for this week, the mesmerizing Metamorphosis II by Philip Glass, originally composed for solo piano. This is an exc…
Music of the Week: May 13, 2022: Ludovico Einaudi: Una Mattina
https://youtu.be/MPlkHxFA-Qg
There is a special calm and pensiveness about Ludovico Einaudi’s piano pieces that has earned him the love of the public.
The classically trained Italian comp…
Music of the Week: May 6, 2022: Antonín Dvorák: Symphony No. 9
https://youtu.be/vXcU7h3uVlg
Antonín Dvorák’s 9th Symphony, “From the new world,” needs no introduction as it is one of the most popular symphonic classics worldwide. The Czech composer wr…
Music of the Week: April 29, 2022: Elvis Presley: Spring Fever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcfqNqKayS0
Spring is in full swing in the Northern Hemisphere, and we can all feel it! What better music to take us into the groove than this offering by the…
Music of the Week: April 22, 2022: Ain’t No Sunshine – Cover by Canen
https://youtu.be/bWVe1GGvs4U
Our music for this week is a stunning performance by then 12-year-old Canen covering Bill Withers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine” with a group of extremely talented and sen…
Music of the Week: April 15, 2022: Arvo Pärt: Vater unser
https://youtu.be/x9Xm_nR4310
Our music of the week and on this Good Friday 2022 is this sublime version of the Lord’s Prayer in German by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, one of the brightest s…
Music of the Week: April 8, 2022: G.F. Händel: “Waft her, Angels, through the skies”
https://youtu.be/_M4rS8v_3lk
Waft her, angels, through the skies,
Far above yon azure plain,
Glorious there, like you, to rise,
There, like you, forever reign.
Tenor Thomas Cooley sings this …
Music of the Week: April 1, 2022: The Pi Song (100 Digits of π)
https://youtu.be/l-8Ax6JspKk
Did you know that music and mathematics are intimately related? Tempo, rhythm, meter, and even scales are all based on numbers and numerical ratios. What most of…
Music of the Week: March 25, 2022: Sona Jobarteh & Band
https://youtu.be/fRB06MjfecU
Maya Sona Jobarteh was born in London of West African (Gambian) descent and is the first female professional kora player. She also studied cello, piano, and harp…
Music of the Week: March 18, 2022: Nate – Digital ID
https://youtu.be/EgeY7HrFQDU
Here is a songwriter who is connecting the dots and reaching the younger generation with a beat and lyrics that convey some very timely truths. Music is a medium…
Music of the Week: March 11, 2022: Johann Sebastian Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major
https://youtu.be/q3ldi8Gucxs
J. S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos are a collection of “Six Concertos for Several Instruments” (1721) that Bach, at the age of 36, sent to Christian Ludwig, Marg…
Music of the Week: March 4, 2022: Kari Jobe & Cody Carnes – The Blessing
https://youtu.be/Zp6aygmvzM4
Prayer and song are so important at this time. Much of the news and information we are confronted with can become depressing and cheerless. Thinking of the prese…
Music of the Week: Feb. 25, 2022: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra – The Blue Danube
https://youtu.be/zoya9RPFDK4?t=63
Vienna will be the location for a major rally this Sunday, February 27, 2022. Thousands will gather at the Heldenplatz (Heroes’ Square) under the banner of …
Music of the Week: Feb. 18, 2022: Kate Bush – Cloudbusting
https://youtu.be/AJll-eF5zUA
This song from Kate Bush’s 1985 album Hounds of Love is based on the life and work of Austrian psychoanalyst and originator of “orgone” research, Dr. Wilhelm Reich, …
Music of the Week: Feb. 11, 2022: G.F. Händel – Zadok the Priest – Organ Solo
https://youtu.be/CPtFJ1_qZgQ
Supporting the theme of “Sovereignty” in the 2021 Annual Wrap Up and this week’s report by John Titus, Georg Friedrich Händel’s coronation music comes to mind.
…
Music of the Week: Feb. 4, 2022: Lasya –Anoushka Shankar
https://youtu.be/wLAXfkK-DPg
Anoushka Shankar is the daughter of world-famous sitar player and classical composer Ravi Shankar, and herself a virtuoso sitarist bridging Indian classical music an…
Music of the Week: Jan. 28, 2022: Set You Free
Relaxing minimalist soundscape created by Enahm Hof – yes, Wim Hof’s son – and Niraj Naik. This collection of songs can be used as background music for the Wim Hof Method’s breathing exercises.
…
Music of the Week: Jan. 21, 2022: Masterclass with Salvatore Fisichella
How do we keep perfecting art? There is a lot of talent out there. It is a wonderful service to humanity to share that talent to help others expand their art even further. Great example by Salvat…
Music of the Week: Jan. 14, 2022, El Espíritu y la Novia dicen: “O Come Lord Jesus!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4ufdzLvXVU&t=334s
Here are the lyrics in English: The Spirit and the Bride they say, “Come!” Oh, come, Lord Jesus, Maranatha!
Enjoy this heartfelt music f…
Music of the Week: Jan. 7, 2022: Concerto for Oboe d’Amore in A Major (BWV 1055) – Johann Sebastian Bach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p86QCWOA-0
Instilling some coherence into the world and our lives with this classic piece of baroque music from Bach. A good way to start the weekend, the week, …
Music of the Week: Dec. 31, 2021: A Revels Celebration of the Winter Solstice
To conclude our Christmas music series, here is a beautiful piece of mellow music from the album Christmas Day in the Morning – A Revels Celebration of Winter Solstice performed by The Chris…
New Year’s Eve – Happy New Year!
LYRICS:
Should old acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgot, and auld lang syne?
For auld lang syne, my dear, for auld lang syne, we’ll take a …
Music of the Week: Dec. 24, 2021: Schütz Christmas Oratorio
The Christmas Oratorio, published in 1664, is one of Heinrich Schütz’s late works, but he didn’t stop there. Considered one of the greatest composers before Bach, Schütz’s music beau…
Music of the Week: Dec. 17, 2021: O Holy Night – Crowder
Enjoy this beautiful arrangement of a Christmas classic by David Crowder and Abe Parker!
More on Crowder here and on Wikipedia.
Crowder’s website
More on Abe Parker here.
Music of the Week: Dec. 10, 2021: The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You) – Nat King Cole
Recognized by millions, there is no better song or rendition to help you get into the spirit of Christmas than this song by Nat King Cole!
Cole first recorded “The Christmas Song” in 1946, and …
Music of the Week: December 3, 2021: If We Make It Through December – Merle Haggard
Although this country classic written and performed by Merle Haggard was released in 1973, it takes a special new meaning at this particular time in our history. Dedicating this song to those whos…
Music of the Week: Nov. 26, 2021: The Sign of the Son – Simon Khorolskiy
Simon Khorolskiy is a Russian singer living in Washington State, who finds inspiration for his music in the Bible. This song is based on Matthew 24:29-31 and Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21.
…
Music of the Week: November 19, 2021: My Heart Will Go On by Paul Potts
Beautiful Japanese interpretation by opera singer Paul Potts of the theme song from the movie Titanic.
Potts rose to fame after being discovered by and winning the first series of Britain’s Got…
Music of the Week: November 12, 2021: Leyla McCalla – Bloody Sunday Sessions
If you haven’t heard Leyla McCalla yet, she is worth discovering. McCalla is a New York-born Haitian-American living in New Orleans, who sings in French, Haitian Creole, and English, and plays cel…
Music of the Week: November 5, 2021: Bach – Sonata in E-flat major BWV 525 – Zerer | Netherlands Bach Society
Let yourself be carried away by the vibrant rhythm of this piece of organ music.
The Sonata in E-flat Major, performed here by Wolfgang Zerer, is part of a collection Bach created for his son …
Music of the Week: Oct. 29, 2021: Djelem Djelem (Barcelona Gipsy Klezmer Orchestra)
Beautiful song and beautiful voice (Sandra Sangiao).
This song is a tribute to one of the greatest Romani songs and the Roma people. The lyrics were written by Žarko Jovanović in the …
Music of the Week: Oct. 22, 2021: Adagietto – Mischa Maisky and Lily Maisky
Mischa Maisky arranged for cello and piano this series of 14 classical music pieces by a variety of composers, performing them with his daughter Lily. Relax and enjoy this perfect chill-out music….
Music of the Week: Oct. 18, 2021: Brother Sun, Sister Moon
This song from Donovan is the song of St. Francis in the 1972 movie Brother Sun, Sister Moon by Franco Zeffirelli.
St. Francis of Assisi left a life of riches to live among ordinary people and…
Music of the Week: Oct. 8, 2021: Robert White – Tudor Church Music (The Tallis Scholars)
Time for some sacred music. Enjoy!
Robert White (1538–1574) was an English composer of the Elizabethan age, best known for his liturgical music in Latin. You can listen to the entire albu…
Music of the Week: Oct. 1, 2021: I am Australian – The Seekers
With this beautiful song from The Seekers, Australia’s first pop music group to achieve major success in the United Kingdom and the United States, we ask anyone who feels so inclined to pray for t…
Music of the Week: Sept. 24, 2021: Cantique de Jean Racine Op 11 (Fauré)
Beautiful interpretation of Fauré’s choral piece by the Orchestre de Paris and choir under the direction of Paavo Järvi.
Fauré was a French composer, organist, pianist, and teacher who liv…
Music of the Week: Sept. 17, 2021: May It Be
Sublime interpretation of May It Be written by Enya and Roma Ryan for the Lord of the Rings, sung by the British vocal ensemble Voces8. The goal of Voces8 is to inspire people through music and sh…
Music of the Week: Sept. 10, 2021: Arvo Pärt – Tallinn Chamber Orchestra
In this concert, the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir play some of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt’s best-known pieces under the direction of conductor Tõnu …
Music of the Week: September 3, 2021: The Overture to Egmont, opus 84 – Beethoven
Click here to watch the video.
The Egmont Overture is a great example of using music to express political ideas.
In this piece, Beethoven celebrates Count Egmont (1522-1568), a famous Flemish n…
Music of the Week: August 27, 2021: Feathers – Sharon Robinson
Sharon Robinson is an American singer, Grammy-winning songwriter, and record producer, who frequently worked with Leonard Cohen as well as other artists.
Learn more about Sharon Robinson on he…
Music of the Week: August 20, 2021: Adagio for Strings, Op.11 – Barber (Vienna Philharmonic)
The sounds of heaven on earth? This beautiful and moving performance of one of the best-known pieces of classical music is played by one of the great orchestras of the world, the Vienna Philharmon…
Music of the Week: August 16, 2021: The Rose (The King’s Singers)
Song by Amanda McBroom interpreted by The King’s Singers.
By Catherine Austin Fitts
Our dear friend and ally Jason Bawden-Smith died on July 26, 2021. We are organizing an online celebr…
Music of the Week: August 6, 2021: Hauser – “Live in Zagreb”
During this 2017 concert in Zagreb, Hauser, one of the top cellists of all time, plays his favorite pieces of classical music, solo, with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra.
Because of its size …
Music of the Week: July 30, 2021: Stabat Mater (Pergolesi)
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Beautiful interpretation of this 13th-century Christian hymn to Mary – Stabat Mater – by Giavanni Battista Pergolesi in the Chapelle de la Trinité, Château de Fontainebleau,…
Music of the Week: July 23, 2021: Believe for It (CeCe Winans)
"It’s time to believe in the impossible." ~ CeCe Winans
CeCe Winans is on of Catherine’s favorite gospel singers. She has been awarded 12 Grammy Awards and 23 GMA Dove Awards, alo…
Music of the Week: July 16, 2021: You Are My Sunshine
Who doesn’t remember this recording by Mississipi John Hurt? A simple and beautiful melody that many would have loved their grandma to sing for them.
Mississipi John Hurt was famous for his blu…
Music of the Week: July 12, 2021: Die Moldau (Smetana)
Die Moldau is part of Má Vlast, also known as My Fatherland, a set of six symphonic poems composed between 1874 and 1879 by the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana—at a point in his life when h…
Music of the Week: July 4, 2021: God Bless America by Generald Wilson
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pur…
Music of the Week: June 25, 2021: Le Roi Danse (Lully)
Jean-Baptiste Lully was an Italian-born French composer, instrumentalist, and dancer, who is considered a master of French Baroque music. Best known for his operas, he spent most of his life worki…
Music of the Week: June 21, 2021: What A Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong)
"And all I’m saying is see what a wonderful world
It would be if only we’d give it a chance.
Love baby, love. That’s the secret, yeah.
If lots more of us loved each other
we’d solve lots…
Music of the Week: June 11, 2021: Lachrimae or Seven Tears – 1604 (John Dowland)
Immerse yourself in this sonic universe of contrasts where Jordi Savall effortlessly takes you through periods of darkness and light, sadness and joy, tension and relaxation. He creates this delic…
Music of the Week: June 7, 2021: The Anchor (Crowder)
Who doesn’t need an anchor for their soul these days? Crowder has one.
Enjoy!
Related Links
Crowder’s website
More about Crowder on Wikipedia
Music of the Week: May 31, 2021: Vietórisz Tablature (Excerpts)
These Hungarian songs and dances from the Vietórisz Tabulature are not only a pure musical delight, they may transport you to a state of deep peace and joy and give you the feeling that life was …
Music of the Week: May 21, 2021: Hamilton – An American Musical
"Raise a glass to freedom, something they can never take away"
~ From the score of Hamilton
This musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda is an opportunity to revisit the American Revolution i…
Music of the Week: May 14, 2021: Don’t Give Up – Peter Gabriel and Paula Cole
Two beautiful voices and a beautiful message. Peter Gabriel and Paula Cole, live during the Secret World tour in Italy in 1994.
Related Links:
Peter Gabriel’s website
More about Paula Col…
Music of the Week: May 10, 2021: Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in E Major (Felix Mendelssohn)
In the mood for some light and joyful music? Listen to this Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra that Felix Mendelssohn (1809 – 1847) wrote when he was 14 years old! He considered this work to…
Music of the Week: April 29, 2021: I Can See Clearly Now (Jimmy Cliff)
"I can see clearly now the rain is gone.
I can see all obstacles in my way.
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind.
It’s gonna be a bright (bright)
Bright (bright) sunshiny day.
It’s …
Music of the Week: April 26, 2021: Le Retour ! “DANSER ENCORE” (Flashmob in Paris)
You can count on the French to say “no” with irreverance and style to autoritarian measures trying to confine their conscience by selling fear. Watch this colorful group of people singing and …
Music of the Week: April 19, 2021: No Words – A Journey Through Sculptural Mastery Across the Ages (Asha Logos)
Asha Logos likes to communicate through video, podcast and the written word. In this particular creation he chose not to use any words but invites us on an artistic journey through the ages. A tre…
Music of the Week: April 12, 2021: Get Up, Stand Up (Bob Marley)
Always inspiring to listen to Bob Marley And The Wailers performing the song ‘Get Up, Stand Up’ live at The Open Air Festival in Munich, Germany during the 1980 Uprising Tour.
At the same time…
Music of the Week: April 2, 2021: St John Passion BWV 245 (JS Bach) – Wiener Dom-Konzerte
If you’d like to get into the spirit of Easter or simply take some time for introspection, St John Passion by Bach is a wonderful way to do it. This oratorio tells the Passion story as presented …
Music of the Week: March 26, 2021: Waltz of the Flowers (Tchaikovski)—Daniel Barenboim
To celebrate the arrival of spring in the Northern hemisphere, we chose the Waltz of the Flowers, which everybody knows as part of the extremely famous ballet The Nutkracker. Instead of thinking a…
Music of the Week: March 19, 2021: Celebrating Bach
Bach – A Passionate Life
Johann Sebastian Bach – The Greatest Hits (Full album)
Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March 1685 — 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the Baroque …
Music of the Week: March 12, 2021: Talkin’ About A Revolution (Tracy Chapman)
What an amazingly rich voice! No other comments.
More on this artist here.
Music of the Week: February 26, 2021—J S Bach Cantata – Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir – BWV 29
As you can read in one of the comments, “No wonder people went to church in those days…”.
Bach composed this cantata in 1731 in Leipzig for the election of the city council. It is about tha…
Music of the Week: February 19, 2021 — Kitka: The Beatitudes
The Beatitudes are eight blessings sung as part of the Divine Liturgy in Slavic Orthodox practice. They are meant to inspire the listeners to the ideals of mercy, spirituality, and compassion. Thi…
Music of the Week: February 15, 2021 — Music for the Royal Fireworks (Handel)
In the mood for glorious majestic music? This wonderful rendition of Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks by conductor Hervé Niquet is worth knowing. The exquisite sound comes from the use of k…
Music of the Week: February 5, 2021 — Psalm 23 (JeffMajors)
The ultimate soothing song for those open to the idea that there is a benevolent universe around us.
JeffMajors is an American Inspirational jazz musician who began his recording music career i…
Fields of Gold (Sting) – Eva Cassidy
With this beautiful love song from Sting we celebrate our humanity while remembering Eva Cassidy (February 2, 1963 – November 2, 1996) and her absolutely perfect voice. Sting supposedly wept wh…
Spem In Alium (Thomas Tallis) – Tallis Scholars
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