Love Letters
Stephen Rodgers
12 December 2025
Last summer I assembled a cycle of eight songs by the 19th-century German composer Pauline Decker, understanding this curatorial action as an important form of advocacy.
There is no historical or geographical limit on what can be covered. There is no restriction on the style or genre of song or singing.
Last summer I assembled a cycle of eight songs by the 19th-century German composer Pauline Decker, understanding this curatorial action as an important form of advocacy.
Two-and-a-half years ago I launched a website devoted to marginalized song composers. In this post, I reflect on where it all began.
On a lark, I asked my students to listen to a beautiful song by Caroline Shaw and, rather than write about it, draw a picture of it. The results astounded me.
Part II of a conversation with soprano Susan Narucki about her new album of art songs by early 20th-century women composers.
A conversation with soprano Susan Narucki about her new album of art songs by early 20th-century women composers.
Troves of German Lieder composed by women await their first performances. Here is one composer whose songs have recently been recorded for the first time.
Three unpublished Fanny Hensel songs get their first performance since the 1820s.
Marie Hinrichs’s single published opus – composed when she was eighteen – proves that sometimes the most affecting music is also the most unassuming.
This post, the first episode in my new podcast, discusses Maya Angelou’s poem “Phenomenal Woman” and a powerful setting of it by Farayi Malek.
This audio blog post discusses Julia Johnson Davis’s poem “To My Little Son” and Florence Price’s deeply personal musical setting of it.