WMM 2026 Day 14 Iraina Mancini

Iraina ManciniPHOTO CREDIT: Raphael Pour-Hashemi   What should you focus on today or tomorrow?Well, as I said in the earlier question, don’t focus on either, focus on the present. People can spend so much time dwelling on the past and the future that they forget to concentrate on making the day their [sic] living in…

WMM 2026 Day 13 — Bic Runga

Bic Runga on the 2010 Winery Tour, in New Zealand. Photo by Nick Chappell. The album that I’ve just made now, the goal was kind of to make a record that was imagining rock having never happened because it’s really sparse. There’s no distorted guitar. I love that sort of music but I don’t make…

WMM 2026 Day 12 — Francesca Caccini

Francesca Caccini Life would leave me before the desire to studyand the passion I have always brought to virtu… because this is worth more than any treasure or fame.— Francesca Caccini wikipedia:Francesca Caccini (b. 9/18/1587 – d. ~1646) was an Italian composer, singer, lutenist, poet, and music teacher of the early Baroque era. She was also known by the…

WMM 2026 Day 11 — Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-53)

Ruth Crawford Seeger (link takes you to a decent article with other pictures of her.)Images courtesy of Peggy Seeger. Ruth Crawford Seeger (nee Ruth Porter Crawford) (b. 7/3/1901 – 11/18/1953) was an American composer and musicologist. Her music heralded the emerging modernist aesthetic, and she became a central member of a group of American composers known as the “ultramodernists.” She…

WMM 2026 Day 10 — Melissa McLelland

Melissa McLelland [W]hen I started singing anything that had a hint of the blues in it or gospel, it just opened my voice up.  It stretched everything out. I love those beautiful, slow, spacious songs where I can just enjoy singing.  — Melissa McLelland, in an interview at Write On Music. Melissa McLelland press photo…

dVerse Q243 — Be a Bird

Be a Bird Be a bird,hued or drab,warbling or silent,wafting or waddling,building or nesting,migrating or staying put,preening or molting,hunting or pecking,diving or swimming,lightbound or darkbound,predator or prey,hopping or dancingearth, sky, sea;choosing whereverfree be. De (aka whimsygizmo) is today’s host of dVerse’ Quadrille Monday. De wants us to write a 44-word poem using the word bird.