Because I don't read program song lists before or during a show, I sat through Lady Day longing to hear "Don't Explain" (music by Holiday, lyric by Herzog), which is based on the singer's attitude toward her cheating first husband Jimmy Monroe.
Since it's an exhibition program, song with lyrics are allowed (much unlike short or long programs), but don't let the lyrics dictate what you have to do.
(Smith) My Lord Chamberlain's Consort (Sunday) This early-music ensemble offers the program "Songs for a Cynical Age," featuring John Maynard's "XII Wonders of the World" (1611).
But in its newest program, "Songs of America: From Stephen Foster to Bob Dylan and Beyond," Ted Sperling, its guest artistic director, offered a coherent, entertaining survey course in folk, blues and gospel, with a tart spritz of socially conscious Broadway.
Mr. Hampson's program, "Songs of America," a sampler from his similarly titled 13-week series for the WFMT Radio Network (heard in New York on WQXR, 105.9 FM), was offered as a thematically apt celebration of the museum's newly renovated American Wing.
In 1938 he took a full-time job with WMBI Radio in Chicago, and it was there that Graham approached him in 1943 to join his ministry as a soloist on Graham's radio program Songs in the Night.
She worked in true collaboration with an excellent pianist, Malcolm Martineau, and showed uncommon intelligence in choosing her program: songs to French texts on the first half and English-text songs by four American composers after intermission.
His intriguingly titled program, "Songs of Separation," offers works by Beethoven, Barber, Fauré and Mussorgsky. 3 p.m., St. Bartholomew's Church, Park Avenue at 51st Street, (212) 378-0248; $20 $155 for 65+; free for students.
The first program, Songs from the Capeman, will run April 1-6 and emphasize the Latin influence in Simon's writing; special guests include Oscar Hernandez and the Spanish Harlem Orchestra and Claudette Sierra.
He was about to become the preacher on a radio program, "Songs in the Night," and he was looking for a marquee name to sing as his soloist.
After serving briefly as the pastor of the First Baptist Church in Western Springs, Illinois, Graham launched his first radio program, "Songs in the Night," in 1943.
