Joyce DiDonato. Photo by Simon Pauly.
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Show Notes
People are pretty much never just one thing. Each person is made of the stuff in their individual history, including the music. That includes Grammy-winning opera singers. Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato recently completed a project that brought the disparate parts of her own musical history together. And because she’s Joyce DiDonato, this meant bringing top notch performers from across the musical spectrum into the studio to work together. In this episode, she talks about the fascinating process of bringing jazz and Baroque together, and the surprising connections between the two.
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Special thanks to Todd Reynolds for his music, Taskforce: Farmlab from Outerbourough.
Thanks to the official bird feed provider of Classical Classroom, Sadie’s Seeds, where birds get seedy.