Issue #67

Rachel Holland Sings at CNU

Odetta
& Robert Sims

Lost in the Stars

Rod Dixon's American Opera Idol

Ambrosia & Shostakovich

Norfolk Chamber Consort:
Les Deux Claveçins,
Clarion Synthesis
& more


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  An art song might be defined as "a poem set to music, usually for trained voice and piano accompaniment with a duration of about three minutes." The German word for such classical song is Lied (singular) and Lieder (plural), so that you will hear the terms "art song," "lied" and "lieder" used interchangeably. In France the term is Melodie, and in Italy, Romanza. But more than this simple . . .