A baritone, he introduced songs by Ives, Eisler, Blitzstein, and Copland.
She introduced songs in fluent English, although the rapt audience was full of Italian-speaking fans.
Mr. Charlap introduced songs by naming both the composer and the lyricist, as Jonathan Schwartz does on his WNYC radio program.
Like a preacher, she introduced songs as true stories, often about putting up with the wrong man.
Mr. Young introduced songs from "Le Noise" in a solo theater tour earlier this year, and he is going on the road again, performing alone with electronic effects.
P J Harvey and John Parish introduced songs — eerie waltzes and bitter, stomping imprecations — from their album due March 31, "A Woman a Man Walked By".
Drawing from the gritty experiences of South Carolina blacks, "Porgy and Bess" introduced songs that came to be lodged in American culture.
Kings of Convenience, by contrast, were subdued as they introduced songs from their latest album, "Declaration of Dependence" (Astralwerks), due out Oct. 20.
She introduced songs in English: a homage to "people who fought for our freedom," a song against fear, a song called "Dhalem" ("Tyrant") that vowed, "Kill me, and I will write songs".
And Ximena Sariñana, a former telenovela actress from Mexico, introduced songs from her English-language album due in August: crisp, slyly eccentric tunes that she sang in a charmingly unpolished voice.
