2020 Holiday Playlist
Playlist
20 December 2020
With fervent hopes for a better, healthier year, we at WSF offer you an eclectic holiday play list.
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.
With fervent hopes for a better, healthier year, we at WSF offer you an eclectic holiday play list.
From the moment Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion dropped their single on August 7, “WAP” became the song of 2020.
In her 2011 album Night of Hunters, Tori Amos reflects on a long tradition of classical music penned by men from the perspective of a woman.
In her 1998 song cycle Songs from Letters: Calamity Jane to her daughter Janey, Libby Larsen explores the relationship between Jane and her daughter Janey.
Although banned for much of her career from major opera houses, Marian Anderson had an intriguing and lifelong devotion to Donizetti’s aria “O mio Fernando.”
“Praying,” Kesha’s first ballad, was written about her recovery from traumatic abuse by her former producer, Dr. Luke. Her voice depicts this journey.
Carrie Jacobs Bond’s world-wide hit, “A Perfect Day” (1910), was one of the most purchased, most sung, and most parodied songs for decades.
Palmira Jaquetti Isant (1895-1963) is a Catalan-Spanish poet, folklorist, and composer whose name you will not find in music dictionaries.
In this video I outline two strategies that Clara Schumann uses to compose songs with music that goes “against the grain” of the poetry.
A century ago the new Yugoslav ‘national’ music needed women; two influential women, Maja Strozzi-Pečić and Ivanka Milojević, seized the moment to gain a public voice.