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.
Michele Aichele discusses how, nearly 25 years after it was published, Chaminade’s ‘L’Anneau d’argent’ (‘The Silver Ring’) inspired a novel, Frank Adams’s ‘Molly and I.’
John Michael Cooper returns to Margaret Bonds and Edna St. Vincent Millay to discuss a song cycle about the rebirth of female identity.
Eva Stachniak memorializes Ewa Demarczyk, a legend of her time. No one sang like her. Not in Poland, not in the world.
Katherine Vaz extols the slow steady pulled-from-the-deep sounds of Amália Rodrigues, Césaria Évora and other fado singers.
John Michael Cooper celebrates the publication of Margaret Bonds’s settings of poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Rebecca Cypess connects the songs of Madame Brillon (1744–1824) to the ethereal timbre of her favorite instrument—her English square piano.
Darryl Taylor remembers his first teacher as someone who made sure he knew that singing was more than sounding good.
Kay Kaufman Shelemay praises Ethio-American vocalist, singer-songwriter, and composer, Meklit for philosophical and artistic explorations that are literally cosmic in their purview.
