Seraphic Saturday Podcast

Our third episode explores contemporary American music, with the goal of demystifying this genre for our audiences. Soprano Rebecca Myers and tenor Steven Bradshaw, members of Seraphic Fire as well as Variant 6, a contemporary American vocal ensemble, and The Crossing, a GRAMMY-winning chorus, join host Patrick Dupré Quigley to talk about contemporary vocal music. And then Mezzo-soprano Clara Osowski returns to discuss her new album "Haunted Blue."

Welcome to the Seraphic Saturday Podcast. Our second episode talks all things Messiah, from its first premiere in Dublin, to Messiah’s arrival in America. Host Patrick Quigley is joined by conductor Nicholas McGegan to discuss the work, along with tenor Brad Diamond who speaks on the Baroque era. Also featured in this episode: cellist Guy Fishman, mezzo-soprano Clara Osowski, soprano Nola Richardson, and countertenor Reggie Mobley. 

Welcome to the first episode of the Seraphic Saturday Podcast! Our monthly podcasts will be filled with smart and frank discussions of classical music featuring the charming and witty cast of Seraphic Fire’s artistic company as well as special guests.

Baseball! Baseball! 

Cocktail Party

Listener Mail 

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*Guido, an Italian monk in the early 1500s, invented the predecessor of the tonic sol-fa system, Julie Andrews’ favorite, which consists of doh, ray, me, fah, soh, lah and te. "Gamma ut" was the lowest note in the medieval musical scale. Eventually, the word was shortened to gamut, referring to his whole system; and, now commonly used, ‘the whole gamut’ has evolved to mean the complete range or scope of anything.