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.
There are at least two ways to read this striking image of Vivien Lambelet: one personal, the other professional. One reading doesn’t exclude the other.
Jovana Backović’s haunting music for Ophelia in a production of Hamlet spurred this conversation about her influences and artistic goals.
Translations and cover songs raise many of the same questions. This post (and playlist) looks at how young women transformed Beatles songs on their debut albums.
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.
A conversation with soprano Susan Narucki about her new album of art songs by early 20th-century women composers.
Four exceptional women composers underwent mid-career conversions. Having favored male poets for the first decades of their careers, they began in their 40s to favor women poets.
With this essay on Black Swan Records, we at WSF celebrate our 2nd anniversary. On 30 Oct. 2020 our first post was Mark Burford’s essay on Marian Anderson.
Even as churches ban “I Love You Truly,” brides and grooms embrace it, as do films, radio broadcasts, and recording companies.
In the annals of songs that have been banned in the United States, no one would expect to find one of Carrie Jacobs-Bond’s songs.
Three unpublished Fanny Hensel songs get their first performance since the 1820s.
