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 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Three unpublished Fanny Hensel songs get their first performance since the 1820s.
Announcing “Beyond the Music: Marian Anderson—Her Complete RCA Victor Recordings”
Marie Hinrichs’s single published opus – composed when she was eighteen – proves that sometimes the most affecting music is also the most unassuming.
To celebrate the summer solstice, we at WSF offer this baker’s dozen group of songs about summer.
American women in peace organizations active between the two World Wars sought to transform the culture that glorified war. Elisabeth Johnson was one of them.
