Songs for Saturday: some music for our times

[mdlbear]

Today's music (it isn't all songs) is very much a mixed bag stylistically, but it's all pandemic-related, because of course it is.

Let's start out on the creepy end. From @siderea, we get The COVID-19 Fugue. (You may want to start with her post about it, which is more descriptive than this brief mention.) Basically it's a fugue built around "C° V-I D 1-9", which is composer Nicholas Papadimitriou's musical respelling of "COVID-19". The results are impressively dissonant (which you might predict from the C-diminished at the start), and absolutely riveting.

From there by way of this comment by @adelenedawner, we go to "Hide Away" by Alice Dillon, a nursery rhyme along the lines of "Ring around the Rosie" (except that the latter's association with the Great Plague appears to date to some time after the Second World War, but it still makes a good story). There's an expanded version here. Lyrics for both versions are in their comments.

From the back alleys and schoolyards we go to Broadway, with The "Zoom Block Tango".

That's a good segue to our final number, "Bolero Juilliard" -- a nice piece of choreography and video editing. You might conceivably want to compare the ending with this version.