My very high A flat and other favorite notes
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"My very high A flat and other favorite notes" is a celebration of the notes that become music and enable us to communicate through words and sound. The very high A flat ("in altissimo") is part of the cadenza at the end of Victor Herbert’s "Art is Calling For Me". In their debut album Karen Lundry, soprano, and Stephen Phebus, piano, perform a selection of familiar melodies including "Let"s Do It" by Cole Porter, "One Kiss" by Sigmund Romberg, "Love is Where You Find It" by Nacio Herb Brown, and "I Can"t Do the Sum" by Victor Herbert, along with art songs in French ("Green" and "Apparition" by Claude Debussy), English ("Loveliest of Trees" and "A Piper" by John Duke), and German ("Allerseelen" and "Ich Schwebe" by Richard Strauss); arias in English (the Willow Song from "The Ballad of Baby Doe" by Douglas Moore) and Italian ("Caro Nome" from Rigoletto by Verdi and "Tornami a Vagheggiar" from Handel"s Alcina); and the sacred piece "My Heart Every Faithful" by J.S. Bach. Karen Lundry has been featured soloist in New York City at Radio City Music Hall and internationally with the International Chamber Orchestra of NY in Greece, Portugal, Italy, and Morocco, and with the Opera Theater of NY in the Far East. Byron Belt of Newhouse Newpapers called her a "pure-voiced soprano". Stephen Phebus is a conductor, coach, and accompanist based in New York City. Over the last thirty years he has conducted many operas and musicals and coached and accompanied singers in concert, theater, opera, and cabaret across the U.S., in Italy, and in Canada.