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.
As the 25th anniversary of her husband’s death approached, Amy Beach composed two somber songs. Megan Lyons asks why Beach never published them.
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.
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?
Five friends return to discuss interpreting and programming Schumann’s Lieder, and to suggest that they encourage us to listen to songs in new ways.
Troves of German Lieder composed by women await their first performances. Here is one composer whose songs have recently been recorded for the first time.
Philip Ross Bullock tackles our “collective ignorance” about women composers in Russia between 1860 and 1960, identifying several who succeeded as models of service and selflessness.
In this video I outline two strategies that Clara Schumann uses to compose songs with music that goes “against the grain” of the poetry.
