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Song , song. Short vocal comp., acc. or solo. Song is the natural human means of mus. self-expression (as it is for most birds). There are various types of… Ned Rorem , Ned Rorem (born 1923) was widely regarded as the leading American composer of art songs. He was also well known as a diarist and essayist.
Ned Rorem… Chris Ledoux , LeDoux, Chris
Singer, songwriter
A real rodeo cowboy in a musical world saturated with artificial ones, Chris LeDoux has pursued an unusual country m… Barcarolle , Barcarolle from Les contes d'Hoffmann. Retrieved by Offenbach from his much earlier opera, Die Rheinnixen, 1864 (a failure). In this it figured as a… Sammy Cahn , Cahn, Sammy
Songwriter, entertainer
Call him irrepressible—Sammy Cahn always had a way with words. As a skinny, bespectacled kid, it kept him out of… Stephen Collins Foster , The American composer Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864) was one of the first professional song-writers in the country, and his minstrel tunes, parti…
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