Supplemental Information: Episode 4
I Will Not Tell You: Disconnection, Reticence, and Ambivalence in Heyman's “Tortie-Tortue”
Anna Stephan-Robinson (West Liberty University)
Release Date: Thursday, May 1, 2025
Production Credits
Team Lead: Leah Frederick
Production Lead: Zach Lloyd
Peer Reviewers: Hilary Poriss,
Joe Straus
Special Thanks: Anita Hardeman, Evan Robinson, and my students; Matt Harder, Sav Nelson; West Liberty University.
Music Credits
SMT-Pod Theme Music: Maria Tartaglia
Closing Music: Yike Zhang
Bio: Anna Stephan-Robinson serves as Director of Music Theory and Ear Training and Professor of Music at West Liberty University, where she teaches many classes and serves in myriad capacities. Her scholarship focuses on music pedagogy and on the analysis of twentieth-century concert and popular music, particularly that of Katherine Ruth Heyman, Marion Bauer, and Paul Simon. She has presented at regional, national, and international conferences, and published in journals including Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, Engaging Students, Notes, and Journal of the Society for American Music. Anna earned degrees from the University of Rochester, University of Georgia, and Queens College.
Keywords: Katherine Ruth Heyman, twentieth-century art music, Chansons de Bilitis, diversity, music by women.