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.
Coming next fall! PlanetWoman, an innovative program of world premieres by women composers setting poems by women. Zsuzsanna Ardó found her inspiration in writings of Hildegard of Bingen.
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?
The upcoming premiere by Red Vespa of Lisa Neher’s composition, Upon a Broken World, acknowledges what we have endured these past few years.
In this video I outline two strategies that Clara Schumann uses to compose songs with music that goes “against the grain” of the poetry.
