Author: Liane Curtis
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Dr. Marcia J. Citron on The Wreckers at Houston Grand Opera
We are deeply honored to have Dr. Marcia J. Citron as a guest blogger. Dr. Citron is Professor Emerita at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University. The author of When Opera Meets Film (Cambridge UP, 2010) and Opera on Screen (Yale UP, 2000), her groundbreaking book Gender and the Musical Canon (1993, reprint 2000)…
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More good news! A Premiere by Marion Bauer!
More good news! …. And some silliness! Marion Bauer’s Symphony n. 1, one of the last works she composed, will receive its long delayed premiere on Nov. 15 by the Seattle Collaborative Orchestra. Bauer’s Symphony composed in 1951, was scheduled to be conducted by Howard Hanson at the Symposium of American Orchestral Music at the…
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Composer of the Month: Maria Theresia von Paradis (1759-1824)
By Elizabeth de Brito Maria Theresia von Paradis (The Blind Enchantress, as she was sometimes known) captivated Europe with her prodigious music talents. She concertized widely, composed wonderful music, and became a powerful inspiration, both in classical music and through her work educating the blind. Education Von Paradis’s father worked as court secretary for her…
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Some (GOOD) News for Today!
Some GOOD News for your Wednesday! We are so excited that Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers is receiving an important production at the Houston Grand Opera, and that critics and audiences are THRILLED! The Houston Press calls the 1906 work “an absolute marvel” and demands “Where has she been and what has taken so long?” Dr.…