Hoch, Matthew and Lister, Linda

So You Want To Sing Music by Women

This book is a guide for performers, and a project of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. It was in published in the spring of 2019 by Rowman & Littlefield, available to purchase here. “The leading female American art song composers of our time are Libby Larsen (b. 1950) and Lori Laitman (b. 1955)…Laitman possesses ‘an innate ability to capture the essence of textual meaning, a keen perception of vocal nuance, and a lavish intellectual and musical vocabulary that she uses with a facile ease.’”