A Look Inside: Streaming from Home is Giving Us A Peek at Musicians’ True Selves
“It’s a luxury to hear singers going where their hearts lead them at any given moment. Normally, repertoire for their public appearances is determined a year or three in advance. Not now, which suggests why Lawrence Brownlee, for example, delivered some of his best-ever singing in a Marc Blitzstein song with lyrics such as “The world has gone crazy so stay in my arms.” His Coffee and a Song presentation, featuring him at home in Niceville, Florida, has guests including soprano Susanna Phillips on Long Island singing Leonard Bernstein’s love song to The White House, “Take Care of this House,” and tenor Phan in San Francisco singing Ned Rorem’s “Youth, Day, Old Age and Night” with pianist Myra Huang in New York City.”