Stephanie Blythe Offers Up A Great American Songbook CD

With the cross-over capabilities of Eileen Farrell, the booming-voice belt of Kate Smith, and Americana can-do spirit of Marilyn Horne, the mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe charters 19th-century popular song territory with the new CD As Long As There Are Songs. The recording will be released on September 24, 2013. Click here for the full liner notes and here to order the CD. A bonus audio clip of "Bei mir bist du Schön" can be heard here. Complete track list after the jump.

Stephanie Blythe Talks About Her Kate Smith Tribute Concert

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Stephanie Blythe Channels Kate Smith

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"On Wednesday evening in the Allen Room of Jazz at Lincoln Center, it wasn’t hard to see how Kate Smith might have inspired a hockey team, not to mention galvanized a nation through a depression and a war. In a richly entertaining, commandingly sung program of Smith standards, part of Lincoln Center’s American Songbook

series, the eminent mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe painted a vivid picture of a tirelessly optimistic artist and showed the power of classic songs like 'We’ll Meet Again,' 'The White Cliffs of Dover' and 'When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain' while providing far more than a nostalgia trip through old chestnuts." [Source]