BEFORE attempting any delimitation of the frontiers of Music and Poetry, or any discussion of their interaction, it is perhaps prudent to admit that in one respect it is impossible to separate them.

Music and poetry share a capacity to make their audience feel things. How do they do it? Do the same cognitive mechanisms play a role in both art forms? Omigie (2015) hypothesizes that empathy with an ...

As a young conservatory student in 1993, I was talking with a classmate. He told me that his teacher, a prominent trumpet player in the New York Philharmonic, would begin each weekly lesson by having ...

Jen Webb receives funding from the Australian Research Council. One side of the debate was occupied by those who deny that a songwriter should be identified as a poet. The Swedish Academy, supported ...

“Setting poetry to music is an age-old tradition,” says jazz pianist and composer Frank Carlberg — but this approach to songmaking is not widespread in jazz. Carlberg, a musician prominent on the New ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The composer Matthew Aucoin, Graham’s former student, and the director Peter Sellars have adapted her poems into the operatic “Music for New Bodies.” ...

Recently I sat down with Souza to talk about the new recording and the path she has carved as a vocalist and an interpreter of culture generally and poetry in particular – the lyrics on the record are ...

From live Qawwali and a family fun day to poetry workshops and community talks – Peterborough’s Allama Iqbal Festival returns ...

This month, the Iris Trio shares their spirited chamber music with the world — and with the planet as a whole — as they release Project Earth: The Green Chapter.