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Singing and other Sins ArchiveInternational Art Song Contest has been discontinuedSee and hear Beebe Freitas playing for Winners Recitals liveContact Gary Hickling at: [email protected] past episodes of Singing and Other Sins HERECelebrating 33 years of Art Song on HPRIn the summer of 1988, after returning from UCSB’s Lotte Lehmann Centennial, I approached then HPR music director (and one of the initial founders) Bob Miller, to ask if I could broadcast a Lehmann special. He was enthusiastic and afterwards there was a good response, so I suggested a regular program featuring art song. Bob knew that I’d produced some radio specials for WBAI in New York City, so he figured that I’d do ok, but nonetheless stayed with me the for the first few programs helping to splice the reel-to-reel tape of the singing from Lps and of course, my commentary. Soon I was left to my own devices and the program I called Great Songs joined other such art song-centric broadcasts heard ac ....