The People’s Soprano: Jenny Lind And The Price of Perfection
There will never again be a musician as universally adored and adulated as soprano Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale. Everywhere she went, even facing ...
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“Consume This Opera Mixed With Rap…” Artist And Activist Zakiyyah Releases Empowering Debut Single And Music Video
Meet Zakiyyah, a Boston-raised singer, songwriter, activist and scholar, who just hit our WYSKy radar compliments of a "you should know" tip from 12-year-old E...
Her Anti-Lullaby Done A Cappella… LGBTQ Chorus Performs Karla Kane’s ‘Don’t Hush, Darling’
It seems we have some competition when it comes to being the biggest fans of "Don’t Hush, Darling", our favorite anti-lullaby from our favorite frontwoman, Kar...
Fearless Memory: Our First Three Decades With Lera Auerbach, Composer, Pianist, Poet, Artist
One of the things that consistently blows my students' minds is the fact that there are still classical composers living today. After being taken through...
Kirsten Flagstad And How The “Voice Of The Century” Was Nearly Silenced
In June of 1946, the greatest Wagnerian soprano of her era, perhaps the greatest of all time, cabled to her longtime accompanist the news that her husband had ...
One Of The Few: Florence Price, America’s First Black Woman Composer
1888 was not an auspicious year for a black girl to be born in the United States. The Federal government had ignominiously turned tail on Reconstruction ...
The Woman Who Invented the Modern Concert: Clara Schumann, Master of the Piano
In mid-nineteenth century Europe, two colossi of the keyboard crisscrossed the continent, leaving masses of ecstatic fans in their wake, and they could not hav...
Trapped in a Velvet Prison: The Private Musical Genius of Fanny Mendelssohn
Mendelssohn.Thirty years ago, that name carried two associations: as the surname of Moses Mendelssohn, the philosopher who brought a modernized Judaism int...
Barbara Strozzi, Master Of The 17th Century Love Song
Between the monophonic spirituality of Hildegard of Bingen and the lush, human lyricism of Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677) there lie five centuries, a Renaissance,...