Episode 294 Featuring Conrad L. Osborne - Author, Columnist, Singer, Teacher & Opera Critic

Simple Truths When Storytelling Resonate... We have for your listening pleasure Episode 294 of "Troubadours and Raconteurs with E.W. Conundrum Demure." Episode 294 features a compelling conversation with Author, Columnist, Singer, Teacher, Critic & Opera Lover Conrad L. Osborne. Conrad talks with us as he sits in his Upper West Side Studio in Manhattan. We Discuss His Recently Published, Highly Acclaimed Book Titled "Opera as Opera, The State of the Art," the Artistic Predicament of Opera, the Lack of Verve in Contemporary Compositions, Parallels with the Challenges Jazz Faces Attracting New Artists & Fans, Postmodernist Philosophers' Distaste for Meta-narratives, Storytelling, the Future of Opera, Art & Humanity... This episode includes an EW Essay titled "French Toast." We share another finely crafted, beautifully read essay from our Associate Producer Dr. Michael Pavese titled "Coaltown Cinema." We have a poem called "A Note." Our music this go round is provided by these wonderful artists: Django Reinhardt, Stephan Grapelli, Rhett Miller, Amelita Galli - Curci, Enrico Caruso, Maria Callas, Grandaddy, Branford Marsalis and Terrence Blanchard. Commercial Free, Small Batch Radio Crafted In the Moosic Mountains of Pennsylvania... Heard All Over The World. Tell your Friends and Neighbors..