
Women’s Clubs Fight The Menace of Indecent Songs
By 1913 the “indecency” of modern popular songs could no longer be ignored. Members of the National Federation of Music Clubs tried to fight back.
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By 1913 the “indecency” of modern popular songs could no longer be ignored. Members of the National Federation of Music Clubs tried to fight back.
Part II of a conversation with soprano Susan Narucki about her new album of art songs by early 20th-century women composers.
Ivana Lang’s Nokturno (Nocturne), one of the most beautiful of her many songs, spurs a look at her life and work.
In the decades before and after 1900, did it matter to women composers whether the poems they set were written by a man or a woman?
Are there possibly more songs about fall than any other season? Here are 13 great songs and two striking photos.
The dramatic monologue “The Enchantress” was one of several works by Ljubica Marić celebrated in art and music at an event curated by pianist Jasmina Raković.
Here are eight beautiful works composed by women from Ukraine, many of them conducted and performed by women.
Music manuscripts from Italian convents preserve some of the oldest music composed by women. Musica Secreta are making a new recording of these precious works.
My efforts as a volunteer working with music for a group of mild Alzheimer’s patients led me, unexpectedly, to recover musical memories of my own.
The upcoming premiere by Red Vespa of Lisa Neher’s composition, Upon a Broken World, acknowledges what we have endured these past few years.