Like any art form, music comprises dozens of genres. Even within classical music, there are handfuls of sub-categories, from aleatory (experimental ‘chance’ music) to zarzuela (Spanish comic opera).

On Sunday afternoon, continuing a series surveying works of Felix Mendelssohn and Hugo Wolf, Emmanuel Music presents a concert including Wolf’s “Michelangelo-Lieder,” settings (in Walter Robert-Tornow ...

In German, they’re known as lieder. In French they’re mélodies. In English, they get the rather grandiose title of ‘art song’, to distinguish them from popular vocal music and folksong. Franz Schubert ...

When the plump, round-faced Czech Soprano Gertrude Pitzinger made her U. S. debut in Manhattan’s Town Hall month before last, few U. S. concertgoers had ever heard of her. Last week, as Soprano ...