Issue #73

Ann Scott Davis' Senior Recital

Evelyn Glennie

Governor's School Zauberflöte

Composer Libby Larsen: Composers Institute & Vocal Master Class

James Piano Quartet at VWC

ODU Opera Workshop's Cosi

Kimberly Markham with Symphonicity

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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 . . .