By Song of America
Thomas Hampson’s Song of America project reached a new high this fall with the introduction of a 13-week Song of America radio series. While many stations began airing the series in the fall, it will also be heard on many additional stations starting…
By Song of America
A summer project to catalogue a collection of manuscripts donated to the University of Washington Music Library turned up a manuscript of “Birth,” a previously unpublished song by Amy Beach. The song was premiered at a student recital in the spring of 2011.
By Song of America
Thomas Hampson continues his impassioned advocacy for American song with the introduction this October of “Song of America”, a 13-week radio series that reveals American classic song – poetry set to music by American composers – as a vibrant diary of the American…
By Song of America
Thomas Hampson discusses his thoughts on American art song, in addition to his upcoming projects in the operatic world.
By Song of America
In his series of six “American Songbooks,” which surround skeletons of melodies from hymns, folk songs and spirituals with shimmering, hallucinatory percussion effects, the great composer George Crumb finds a way out of this limiting paradigm [of the folk song], conjuring the horrors…
