“From a distance, the world looks blue and green, and the snow-capped mountains white … From a distance there is harmony, and it echoes through the land. It’s the voice of hope. It’s the voice of ...

Both songs emanate from “City of Angels,” a 1989 Zippel collaboration with Cy Coleman. While the tuner is credited as his Broadway debut, the lyricist confessed he and Wally Harper were recruited to ...

This article examines the historical process through which early Southern Song writers transformed Su Shi's song lyrics on exile and displacement into a national poetry of loss in which geography ...

Some songs just don't want to be understood, and here are three from the 1960s that are ambiguously cryptic to the utmost degree.