PODCAST · music
The Second Street Dreams Audio Network
by Judlyne Lilly
For Your Ears Only
Episodes
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The Art Songs Now “In Plain Sight”. AND the musical life of the colonists during the revolutionary war
There are so many musical works that have been lost to history. Joshua Conyers and the faculty and students at the Eastman School Of Music in Rochester, NY has recorded over 40 of them in an album called In Plain Sight, The Black Anthology. In recognition of the nation’s 250th, there’s the first...
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Expanding The Opera Canon With THE MANY DEATHS OF LAILA STARR
The Many Deaths Of Laila Starr is historic. It’s one of the few operas covering South Asian themes. It centers on Laila Starr, the avatar of Death living as a mortal in Mumbai, India. It was created by composer Kamala Sankaram, and the librettist, Minita Gandhi via the New Works Initiative at the...
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Dudamel And Dale Making Music On Both Coasts
Now that Gustavo Dudamel is holding the baton for the New York Philharmonic, the classical music community is all atwitter. He says he’s not coming in to make changes, but changes will most likely come. And on the west coast, from whence he came there’s Dale Dale Hikawa Silverman, a violist and…
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Classical Music At The Beerfest
When you go to a beerfest, like the one coming up in Munich are you expecting to hear any form of classical music? If the answer is no, then patrons attending the Munich Oktoberfest are going to be quite surprised when the Cellist Anna Rehker and her string quartet start playing music from...
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Remebrances of REPORTING on 9-11 from Judlyne Lilly
Many of you were not alive or were babies on the horrible day, September 11, 2001. Those of us who were will NEVER FORGET it. That includes the thousands of reporters who covered the events of that day and in the days ahead. Judlyne Lilly was a news anchor at WTOP Radio in Washington, DC at that...
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Opera Creole Continues Performing The Sounds Of History After Morgiane
Morgiane, the opera by Louisiana native Edmond Dédé got national and international attention when it was performed and recorded earlier this year. This 1887 opera was finally included in the opera canon after 138 years and a 12-year effort by Givonna Joseph, Artistic Director of Opera Creole in…
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Manon, Like You’ve Never Heard It Before
Heartbeat Opera in New York has a reputation for modern reimagining’s of classic operas. They did it earlier this year with their production of Manon by Jules Massenet. Now they’ve done something they’ve never done before. They called back the cast to record a cast album of the show.
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The last "Uncovered" Album
Since 2021, the Catalyst Quartet has released albums of the music of Black composers. The series called Uncovered featured the works of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Florence B. Price, Coleridge-Taylor, Perkinson, William Grant Still, and George Walker. The latest and last album features the works of...
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Squeezing The New Out Of Opera
Since the 21st century started in earnest, there’s been some discussion about opera. New operas versus the standard repertoire and how it’s measured against the prevailing views about race and attitudes. Now comes One Ounce Opera out of Austin, Texas. They are seeking to throw the old views out...
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A Composer of Conscience and Thank Goodness for Music Librarians
A soothing album as a balm for the ICE infested people of Minneapolis. Mozart’s newly discovered jam, Elaine Andrews found an undiscovered Ralph Vaughn Williams piece and there's a pianist who likes to perform his concerts outdoors.
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Houston’s FIRST Pride Orchestra
Some ideas nag at you over time. That is until something happens and you have to act. This is what happened to Ruby Ortiz who finally decided to start Houston’s first LGBTQ+ symphony orchestra. It’s called the Houston Pride Orchestra.
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The Declaration Project
We are just days away from the actual 250th birthday of America. The music developed for this event just keeps coming. Perhaps none as expansive as the Declaration Project from pianist Lara Downes. She created it to get various takes from anyone about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness....
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We The (all kinds of) People
Many classical music groups have released new music or albums about the 250th birthday of America. Some are straightforward, others take a diverse view, like the Apollo Chamber Players. Founder and Director Matthew Detrick says the album, We The People, features music from composers with…
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Happy 250th And Then Some
We have been inundated with new music and performances of old patriotic music because of the 250th birthday of the United States. On this June 8th podcast, I’m starting a series on music composed and performed specifically for the big bash next month. This time it’s Karen LeFrak’s American…
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Over 70 Birthday Songs to America From Pianist Min Kwon
There aren’t many musicians, classical or otherwise who aren’t presenting their own versions of a birthday song for America’s 250th. On this episode, we hear from Min Kwon, a pianist with a little activist nature on the side. Back in 2021 she started a project called America/Beautiful. Since then...
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HERE BE MONSTERS 2026
Hundreds of people are expected to voluntarily step outside of their musical genre mode this weekend and hear something new, and different and maybe even odd. It’s time for the annual HERE BE MONSTERS, Austin’s Indie-Classical music festival. Co-director Michael Zapruder of Tetractys says this is…
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Requiem For America, The Native American Story
Many orchestras and chamber groups are celebrating the 250th anniversary of America’s founding this year. While most of the music is a positive portrayal of the United States there is at least one musical work telling the tale of the horrific treatment of Native Americans and their lands. The…
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Vanessa, Stripped Down Opera
Even though operas from long ago are still being performed, there’s a movement afoot to freshen them up or to do new 21st century operas. In the case of the 1958 opera Vanessa, a production by Heartbeat Opera is doing a stripped-down version of the Pulitzer Prize winning work. It’s directed by RB...
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Step by Step, the Ruby Bridges Suite
Sometimes when someone makes a suggestion to you, it kind of sticks with you. That’s what happened to jazz artist Darrel Grant. He decided to act on this suggestion from a friend by composing Step by Step, the Ruby Bridges Suite. It is a piece about the 6-year-old girl who was the first African...
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Music About The Earth
In honor of April, Earth Month, more than a few composers have released albums about their love of our home planet, and their anxiety about climate change. This week’s episode features three of those albums.
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Keep Music In Your Life And Dementia Might Never Come
There have been several studies on the effect of music on mental health. This is especially true with the elderly. A long running study out of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia is finding that dementia may be delayed in the over 70 set if music is in their lives.
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Feeding Thespis presents the play NEW TIMES by Judlyne A Lilly Gibson
Welcome to my latest podcast. It’s called Feeding Thespis. I’m picking it up again after more than a few years and some tears. This one is called NEW TIMES. It takes place in 1967 on the campus of a prestigious women’s college when a Black woman is hired to run one of the dormitories for the…
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Composer Chinary Ung stays close to his Cambodian Roots
Composer Chinary Ung has been composing music for 60 plus years. His compositions are heavily affected by his childhood in Cambodia and the deadly events that happened there back in the mid 1970’s. But he says he’s blessed that he was able to come to America in the 1960’s to study the western…
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The African Concert Series Celebrates Its 8th Season of African Classical Music
It took pianist Rebeca Omordia 8 years to create the African Concert Series in London. She was even told that African classical music wasn’t really classical at all, nor would anyone want to listen to it. The series is very popular now. So much so that Wigmore Hall in London has gifted Omordia a...
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A Hero’s Life Meets The Old And The New With A World Premiere Recording
Conductor and Music Director JoAnn Falletta of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra has fulfilled a dream. She’s released A Hero’s Life. The album has two pieces, one from Richard Strauss and another that’s a world premiere recording of Behzad Ranjbaran’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra. Falletta...
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Castrato Nicolo Grimaldi Gets His Due Via Randall Scotting
When you think of countertenors what’s the first thing that comes to your mind? Randall Scotting, a countertenor sees himself as a preserver of this male voice classification. He’s releasing the album Divine Impresario to celebrate one of the most popular castrato opera singers of the 17th and…
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Rachel Barton Pine and the Suzuki Strings
In these last few weeks of Black History Month, there are many more events celebrating Black excellence. One such event is with violinist Rachel Barton Pine, who founded the series Music by Black Composers” as part of her foundation, the Rachel Barton Pine Foundation. She did it to advance...
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Sarah Kirkland Snider Goes Forward Into Light
As any musician, classical or otherwise, knows, it’s a difficult climb to success. It took Sarah Kirkland Snider almost 20 years to find it with her composing career. She’s out with a new album of ethereal, spiritual music called Forward Into Light. Black History Month soars with hundreds of…
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It's Black History Month
Oh Happy Day! It’s Black History Month. There are so many events celebrating “black excellence” in all genres of music. I’ve only mentioned a few including the Colour of Music Festival. See links on secondstreetdreams.com There’s a new audio edition of the Harry Potter books. Believe it or not…
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Song Offerings From Christopher Tin
So many events are happening this month and early in February. Some of them require the attention of the classical music community. There’s the Grammys, a new album of choral works from the composer of Baba Yetu, Christopher Tin, a fresh take on Bach, another cancellation at the Kennedy Center…
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Who won the largest single gift ever dedicated to one Jazz artist?
While we look forlornly at the holiday bills as we head into tax season, there is some joy this January. The Grammy winning and nominated this year again Jazz pianist Sullivan Fortner is grateful and humble after winning the 300k Gilmore inaugural 2026 Larry J. Bell Jazz Artist Award. Donors have...
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Zara Hudson Kozdoj Remembers Who She Is
Sometimes things happen that let you know that you are on the right path. This is the experience of the Zara Hudson Kozdoj of the UK. This 29-year-old Polish-Jamaican cellist, composer and conductor isn’t all about classical music but has surrendered herself to it in bits and pieces. She released...
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Opera Wars
Which opera team are you on? “Old” operas versus the “New” operas. According to the book, Opera Wars by Caitlin Vincent, artistic directors and others at the nation’s opera companies are in conflict with themselves over staging the standard operas from the 18th and 19th centuries or producing…
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The Emerging Black Composers Project is back
While we still might be recovering from Thanksgiving, there’s the rest of the holidays to consider. Shopping for gifts, decorating the house while listening to music. Gifts have already come to Kyle Rivera, who won the Michael Morgan Prize for Black composers. The Pegasus Opera Company in the UK…
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The Opera Austin Festival and a Jane Austen Tribute
A new era of operas is emerging. Not that the popular ones are stuffy or just plain old. Composer Nathan Felix seeks new 21st century operas at his second annual Opera Austin Festival. Another member of the Kanneh-Mason family of England, has released a new album. Pianist Jeneba Kanneh-Mason…
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Two Things to be grateful for: Music and Money.
As the holiday season officially makes its debut this Thanksgiving week, there’s money and music to behold. First up, in these times, the Palm Beach Symphony has hired its first ever Development Director in its 41-year history. Then there’s Chloe Flower who’s released an album of holiday music...
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The SBI at the New York Philharmonic
There is always much concern about the future audiences for classical music. The New York Philharmonic may have found the solution. It’s their 100-year-old Young People’s Concerts. A new one is coming up this month called the Young People’s Concert: Symphonies! Stories! Sibelius! It’ll tell an...
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Native American Artists On the Indigenous Directory for Musical Storytelling
In observance of National Native American Heritage Month, White Snake Projects, has introduced the Indigenous Directory for Musical Storytelling. It names Native American musicians, artists, and crew members who are available for work. Some of them are Grammy award winners. The co-founder and...
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Music By, For, And About Veterans on Classical Music In Colors
With the federal government shut down, (as of this writing) it’s difficult to say if there will be a federal observance of Veteran’s Day on November 11th. So, In gratitude for their service, the podcast this week is all about the music composed to honor them. The men and one woman featured in…
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The Way Of Water from Forklift Danceworks
When you took your shower today did you think about where the water came from? The source of it? Probably Not. There’s at least one arts organization in Austin, Texas, Forklift Danceworks, led by Allison Orr, that wants you to know and maybe learn how to help keep the clean water flowing.
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For The Love Of Samuel Coleridge Taylor
One man, a conductor, has such love for the music of British composer Samuel Coleridge Taylor (August 15, 1875 – September 1, 1912) that he made it his mission to find his manuscripts. The album, produced by conductor Michael Repper and performed by the National Philharmonic with violinist Curtis...
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Invisible Player
While we all get accustomed to Classical Music in ColorS, let’s move on to Segment 2 of 2 of the October 2025 edition. This time we’re talking about a woman who was most likely the first African American hired by a mainstream orchestra, the 93-year-old South Bend, Indiana Symphony Orchestra. Her...
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NOW IT'S CLASSICAL MUSIC IN COLOR(S)
Welcome to a new version of Classical Music in Color. The first change? The name. It’s now plural, CLASSICAL MUSIC IN COLORS. This is the result of Staccato; my other podcast being cancelled by the radio station that aired it for 10 plus years. I’m folding Staccato into Classical Music In Colors....
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Meet Arcoriris Sandoval - A Jazz Pianist
Jazz pianist and composer ArcoIris Sandoval spent her summer all over the place. We met her in July at the Zinc Bar in New York’s The Village where she was performing over a couple of nights before heading off to Massachusetts and other venues around the country. Sandoval took the time to learn...
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Recording Artists and Music Professionals with Disabilities. On Staccato
RAMPD. It’s the latest indication that disabled musicians are emerging as bonafide able musicians. The Recording Artists and Music Professionals with Disabilities was started in 2021. Two handicapped musicians got tired of venues that were not ADA compliant. Founders Gaelynn Lea and Lachi also…
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Surgical Records As Lyrics? On Staccato
We’re introducing you again to composer/singer Molly Joyce. She’s the disabled musician who has been featured on Staccato before. This Julliard grad returns with a new album STATE CHANGE with an unusual lyrical content: That of her medical records regarding the near decade long treatment for her...
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Disability Champ ART SPARK Texas Names Its Annual Winners. On Staccato
Every year Art Spark Texas chooses five or more artists who are disabled as winners of their annual awards. Celia Hughes, Executive Director, says the categories range from Artist of the Year Award, the Gloria Bond Creative Aging Award, the Creative Veteran Service Award and several others. In…
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A Musical Summer Adventure For Two Austin Teens and 94 Others. On Staccato
It’s that time of year again. Each summer, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute chooses the brightest young players from across the country to form the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America. This year 15 of the 96 student musicians chosen are from Texas. Two are from Austin....
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They’re Tapping Their Feet, Anyway. On Staccato
Another Austin, Texas arts organization has lost its NEA grant. However, the Tapestry Dance Company is taking it, in as much stride as possible. Instead of their annual 3 day tap extravaganza, the Soul 2 Sole Festival, they are holding a one-day event. Acia Gray, the Executive Artistic Director…
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The Texas International Piano Festival in South Korea. On Staccato
This is a very exciting time for the Texas State International Piano Festival. They are holding this year’s event in Seoul, South Korea. It is the first time they will be “off campus” for the 15 year old competition. It’s usually held at Texas State University in San Marcos, but it’s always been…
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