
Day 5: An art song with an animal in the title
"The Giraffes go to Hamburg" is one of my put away for the near future/cannot wait to sing pieces. We learned about this in Dr. Muckenfuss's British & American Song class at Peabody during my masters a few years ago and I've been secretly looking for a way to perform it. This is the best part about Modern Singer Magazine's 30 Day Art Song Challenge - rediscovering those pieces I had hidden away for a future time. The recording below is of Renée Fleming singing André Previn's