Recovering Memories: Françoise Hardy
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.
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.
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.
Chen Yi’s special affection for the voice of mezzo soprano shaped her composition Bright Moonlight (2001), composed in the dim light of a trans-Pacific flight.
During WWI, no song was more beloved of Allied troops, no song was more ingrained in the popular cultures of the U.S. and U.K.
Dawson founded the National Negro Opera Company, and brought this all-Black company to perform at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, even before Marian Anderson sang there.
“My friend, Maja Strozzi, perhaps the most beautiful voice of both hemispheres.” Thomas Mann (Doctor Faustus, chapter 37)
Two members of the WSF Team explore the context and power of Liza Lehmann’s “Evensong.”
In this post Verica Grmusa, Nicole Panizza, and Stephen Rodgers bring to life an unpublished Hensel song from 1826, and reflect on the meaning of domestic spaces then and now.
A century ago, Mary Turner Salter’s cathartic song about the death of a child was sung by female singers nationwide. It spoke to women’s experiences.
Although Emma Louise Ashford (1850-1930) is little known today, her music has been performed ever since it was published, in the U.S. and around the globe.