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.

American delegates, including Jane Addams (front row, second from the left), on their way to the International Congress of Women, held at The Hague in 1915. From the Library of Congress.

Fanny Hensel

Love Letters

Last summer I assembled a cycle of eight songs by the 19th-century German composer Pauline Decker, understanding this curatorial action as an important form of advocacy.

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Pencil drawing of Fanny Hensel by Wilhelm Hensel, 1847 (Berlin, Mendelssohn-Archiv, BA 44)

Recording Fanny Hensel at Home

In this post Verica Grmusa, Nicole Panizza, and Stephen Rodgers bring to life an unpublished Hensel song from 1826, and reflect on the meaning of domestic spaces then and now.

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