Issue #76

Robynne Redmon Sings Mahler with ODU Symphony

Rachel Holland, Lisa Relaford Coston & Chuck Woodward in Recital

Lisa Relaford Coston
Sings Debussy

Billy Brown Youmans
I'll Praise My Maker

Lori Laitman's
Within these Spaces

Young Art Song Composer
Kyle Gullings

Kasparov & Lutsyshyn Play
Hailstork's Ignis Fatuus

Anders, Aguirre & Phelps
New Piano Trio

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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 . . .