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Scholarly Writings

Composer Garth Baxter and the Woman's Voice: An Act of Compassion by Hollis Thoms
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  • From Pan Pipes Magazine
  • Fall 2025
  • Volume 118 Number 1


  • From Silence to Death: The Silver Swan
    by Maureen Buja
    https://interlude.hk/from-silence-to-death-the-silver-swan/

    This article is an analysis of several Twentieth Century settings of the famous poem.



    Doctoral Theses


    A Study on the Role of Feste from W. Shakespeare's Romantic Comedy Twelfth Night and compositional trends of Art Songs--Focusing on the Shakesperian songs by E. Korngold, I Hoiby, D. Amran and Garth Baxter, 2024


    by Wei TengFei, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea.


    American Women's Poetry Set to Music: Garth Baxter's From the Heart: Three American Women-- Susan Laura Lugo, Sara Teasdale and Willa Cather

    by Evelyn Fair, Doctoral thesis from Shenandoah Conservatory, 2005


    Folk Songs: The Motivic Connector to the Human Spirit as exemplified in Composer Garth Baxter's La Nostolgie and The Darkness Between Us

    by Isabelle Pazar, Master's Thesis from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2020




    Other Writings

    An Article on Lily


    Carroll Magazine, a lifestyle publication serving Carroll County, Maryland, gave a behind-the-scenes peek at the creation and production of Lily.



    Lily Blog


    The blog Outward Sound wrote an article about "Lily," discussing the how the opera, while set in the 19th century, examines its female protagonist through a contemporary lens. Click here to read the article: Finding Forgiveness in Opera, Part 1