A 21st Century Trobairitz
My Review of Cecile McLorin Salvant's February 9, 2024 Performance at the University at Buffalo
The word is “trobairitz;” it refers to female troubadours of the Middle Ages who performed some of Western music’s first secular songs (and the first composed by women) in the area south of the Loire Valley, what we now call Provence.
As Cécile McLorin Salvant prowled the stage and charmed the crowd with stories of her childhood and songs of lost love, o…