Note from Hampsong’s Artistic Director:

Many of the projects I have undertaken over the years on various issues of music and song have turned out to be works-in-progress, being developed and expanded in the process. Whether it is a survey of the poems of the great Walt Whitman, set by an astonishing number of different composers, the heritage of American song in general, or the origin of Robert Schumann’s song cycle “Dichterliebe,” I hope you will find this information, history and background useful.

Feel free to read, listen, watch and discover on my personal Web site, where I have archived recital programs and numerous essays, projects and interviews conducted over the course of these projects.

The song projects also reflect my dual lives in America and Austria and my dual passions for American song and German Lieder. Therefore some of the material here exists only in German. Viel Spass!
--Thomas Hampson