Today’s Featured Guest Blogger is Dr. Laura Seddon. A musicologist working in the UK and author of British Women Composers and Instrumental Chamber Music in the Early Twentieth Century published by Ashgate, Dr. Seddon is the creative director of Contemporary...
The Los Angeles Philharmonic will be giving the World Premiere of a new commission by Kaija Saariaho. True Fire is written for orchestra and solo baritone and will be performed at concerts May 14-17. The composer says this about the work: This piece has been growing...
Winner of a 2014 Performance Grant, Orchestra of St. Luke’s is collaborating with Brooklyn-based composer and sound artist Maria Chavez for an exciting weekend of events. Tonight (May 8) at 7:30 Chavez will be discussing her process in composing her new work,...
Featured Guest Blogger: Kendra Preston Leonard Today we feature the third installment in our Featured Guest Blogger series, again focusing on the work of Kendra Preston Leonard and her new book on Lousie Talma. Leonard is a musicologist whose work focuses on women and...
Philadelphia based composer Margaret Garwood has died at the age of 88. David Patrick Sterns of The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote a thoughtful remembrance. She was interviewed by WRTI and profiled in The Philadelphia Inquirer in 2010, shortly before the premiere of her...
