Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

Word & Song by Anthony Esolen

Sometimes a Song

A String of Pearls

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Debra Esolen
Aug 02, 2025
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I think a lot about the music of the 20th century, as long-time readers of Sometimes a Song certainly know. And what a century it was for popular music, music of the people. It isn’t that earlier eras didn’t have popular song; they absolutely did. And they even had some superstars, singers such as Enrico Caruso and Jennie Lind, “The Swedish Songbird,…

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