Welcome to Song!

Among other things, this is the website home of Gary Hickling's Great Songs radio program, dedicated to classical song, and broadcast weekly since 1988 on public radio. Click on the link to the left to listen to one some of the archived episodes.

Art song, the marriage of classical music and poetry, is called many things: classical song, Lieder (by the Germans), mélodie (by the French), solo song, piano song, concert song, or romance (by the Russians) to name a few. This website celebrates the art of the song.

Join our song community and reach out to those of like mind, heart and voice; share your talent and/or your knowledge and learn what others have to offer. Here in this online community dedicated to classical song we are bringing together a wealth of knowledge and experience. Connect with this community and experience Song!

Click on the links to the left to explore this site. LYRIC LANGUAGES will introduce you to educational CD-ROMs intended for use in introducing students to art song in the language lab.

LOCAL CONTEST will take you to a sampling of the Hawaii-based art song performance competition sponsored by Hawaii Public Radio. The Art Song Festival was begun in 1996. Contact Gary Hickilng for details or a sampler CD of the first decade of the Festival.

Click on SUPRATITLES to view a video demonstration of our solution to the problem of following the text during a song recital.

Clicking on SONG VIDEO will take you to a demonstration of a project in which art song is placed in a scenario. There are three American songs that are supported by an introductory script in which the poetry is spoken before the song is performed.

ART SONG INFO will take you to a page celebrating new ways to bring art song into schools. Also, you will find the various ways to contact specialists to order difficult to find art song sheet music. We post symposia and other important art song educational events.