Music of the Week: October 4, 2024: Celia Woodsmith and Jason Anick – Seapoint
Jason Anick is a favorite among some of the Solari team who know and appreciate him personally as a generous …
Jason Anick is a favorite among some of the Solari team who know and appreciate him personally as a generous …
Gustav Mahler’s first symphony is, in our opinion, one of those compositions that should be heard in a live performance …
Our Music of the Week comes as a suggestion from a subscriber, and what a beautiful recommendation it is. We …
Even though they dropped out in the Quarterfinals of Season 19 of America’s Got Talent, this South African band of …
Catherine is on her home turf in Tennessee this weekend, meeting and greeting with our special Solari subscribers from the …
The great Czech nationalist composer Antonín Leopold Dvořák (1841-1904) wrote his Carnival Overture as the second of three overtures that …
In 1988, singer and songwriter Kelly Newton-Wordsworth from Western Australia gave her life to God and asked him to show …
Catherine is back in the United States (welcome home, Catherine!) and is taking to the road again on the great …
With Catherine speaking in Reykjavík, Iceland this weekend, today’s Friday music presents us with one of the most popular Icelandic …
Don’t we love the summer months, when we soak in as much sun and summer as we can to recharge …
Our music this week is determined by Catherine’s visit to Lake Constance and the Bregenz Festival. Last night, after an …
Four good-looking Italians with 10 virtuosic fingers each will make your nerve strings vibrate. Enjoy their live performance of a …
Anybody who understands these simple words in the Austrian-German dialect—“Heast as ned” or “Don’t you hear it?”—is immediately captivated. This …
Celebrating the great American day of independence on this 4th of July, 2024, we are choosing to honor the freedom …
Maria Callas was born in December 1923 to Greek immigrants in New York. The rest is history. The Callas was, …
This country and Christian music vocal duo was the real husband-and-wife duo, Joey and Rory Feek. The song they sing, …
Samuel Barber’s Adagio, originally written as part of his String Quartet and later arranged for string orchestra, is one of …
Austrian symphonic and religious composer Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) was one of the profound innovators of the classic symphony and a …
The Solari Team is celebrating and we are dedicating our Music of this week to two very special occasions. One …
Beautiful Katica Illényi is an outstanding Hungarian violin player, singer, and theremin player who graces our music selection for this …
Seven weeks after Passover (Easter), it is the festival of Pentecost, also known as Whitsun—White Sunday—in the Anglican church. It …
It is called “crossover” when an artist or music genre appeals to different types of audiences. Adele—deservedly acclaimed as one …
The Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach are a pinnacle of music that almost all important pianists have tried to …
Our music choice this week wants to put another spotlight on Tennessee singer-songwriter Jennifer Niceley, who we featured in January …
The war machine is churning again, crunching our assets, our loved ones, our precious time and attention, and our plans …
This week, let’s enjoy some wonderful 1920s music rolling over hills of daffodils in April…. “April Showers” is a song …
Teenage Dutch singer Emma Kok floors the entire audience during André Rieu’s annual Maastricht concert in July 2023. The song …
It is Good Friday, the day of the Passion of our Lord and a profound event for the Christian believer, …
We have a particularly fascinating piece for our Music of the Week; both the composition and its delivery are unique …
Asked about the writing of this famous Beatles hit and our choice for Music of the Week, George Harrison said: …
Jewel Kilcher and Dolly Parton, two superstars of American music, are both daughters of musical parents and singing families. Jewel …
Rediscovered among the Haverlin/BMI Collection of hundreds of original and rare musical manuscripts and scores donated to the Harvard University …
There is a profound warmth and joy of life that oozes from traditional Greek rebetiko music. It almost inescapably brings …
Xerxes was a grand Persian king (and Pharao of Egypt), probably best known to many as Ahasverus (a distorted pronunciation …
Tracy Lee Lawrence is a Texas-born country music singer living in Tennessee. He has had numerous songs listed in Billboard’s …
“Óró, sé do bheatha abhaile” is a traditional Irish ballad. Its origins have been lost, but it goes back at …
“When I was inspired to write this music, I knew it had to be simple and I knew it had …
Our Music of the Week is a song from one of Catherine’s favorite movies ever, the Swedish production As It …
Freedom and water are two of the themes that matter most in current Solari commentaries. Our Music of the Week …
There are a number of compositions in musical history that were attributed to the wrong author. This famous “Ave Maria” …
Let memories of 2023, and expectations for 2024 be cherished in the presence of those we love. For auld lang …
“Silent Night” was born in Austria. It was one of those cultural miracles of human history that created an indelible …
With Catherine traveling to Milan and Paris, we are offering Giuseppe Verdi’s musical contemplation of Mary Queen of Angels as …
Handel composed the Messiah, an English language oratorio, in 1741 within only 24 days! It is one of the most inspired works of …
December music at Solari is dedicated to celebrating Advent and Christmastide. “Advent” means the “arrival” or “coming” and is the …
If you go on a shopping spree in the streets of Dublin these days, chances are that you can hear …
Originally from Iceland, Kaleo is a rock band of four grade-school friends from a town near Reykjavik, who in 2015 …
Michael Sanchez and the Shadow Mountain Choir and Orchestra are performing one of the leading worship hymns to come out …
At the age of 28 and with only four albums released so far, Colter Wall is already a legend. There …
(Please switch on subtitles) “It’s time to wake the women from the beauty sleep, the heart of Mother Earth is …
The Sanctus is a central part of the Christian eucharistic liturgy within all Christian denominations—Eastern, Orthodox, Catholic, Oriental, Ethiopian…. It …
Our Music of the Week revisits one of the choicest pieces of jazz that has ever seen the light of …
All of Eva Cassidy’s (1963-1996) recognition as “one of the most unique, hypnotic, and powerful singers of all time” (producer …
My! Britain’s really got talent. Apart from being quite touching to watch his little boy running onto the stage being …
I first heard the Pie Jesu from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Requiem in 1985, soon after it premiered, on a radio …
Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons—a collection of four violin concertos from 1725—do not need a special introduction, as they were and …
This coming week celebrates the beginning of a New Year according to the Jewish liturgical calendar. In all traditions around …
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 …
When Catherine travels, she has a wonderful habit of weaving cultural highlights into her itinerary. No work trip without concerts along the way; no gathering …
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. …
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 …
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 …
“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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
“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 …
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 science fiction …
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 …
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 …
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 …
A legend has gone from us. We are using Tina Turner’s 1996 live concert in Amsterdam from her “Wildest Dreams” tour for our Music of …
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. …
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 …
Water and sound have a unique communication. Sound can shape water, as illustrated in cymatics (“the science of sound made visible”) experiments that show amazing …
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: …
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 …
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 Leave …
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 …
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 Newcomer …
Christopher Tin conducts one of his own works, here performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and a union of three professional choirs. Many will know …
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 …
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. …
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 …
When Swedes are asked about “What is the best time of summer?”, the answer might be “this Thursday” – it’s that short. No wonder all …
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, …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 selection—as we invite …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …