Issue #117, Part 1
Kelly Montgomery
ISG Chorale with Patricia Saunders Nixon
GSA's Ceremony of Carols & Liederabend
Path of Miracles
Carmen
BYO & VCC's Gift of the Magi

Issue #117, Part 2
ODU: An Evening of New Music
Schola Cantorum & Leighas
Ariadne auf Naxos
ECU & GSA Chamber Concert
La Bohème
Guitar Passions
VSO & the Naughtons

  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 . . .