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.
Carrie Jacobs Bond’s world-wide hit, “A Perfect Day” (1910), was one of the most purchased, most sung, and most parodied songs for decades.
Palmira Jaquetti Isant (1895-1963) is a Catalan-Spanish poet, folklorist, and composer whose name you will not find in music dictionaries.
In this video I outline two strategies that Clara Schumann uses to compose songs with music that goes “against the grain” of the poetry.
A century ago the new Yugoslav ‘national’ music needed women; two influential women, Maja Strozzi-Pečić and Ivanka Milojević, seized the moment to gain a public voice.
Marian Anderson was a pioneering interpreter of Jean Sibelius’s songs. “Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings mote,” was one of the first she recorded.
