by Liane Curtis | Aug 16, 2021
Start your week with our look at the news! The Bard Music Festival transfixed us with its many amazing concerts, focusing on Nadia Boulanger and Her World. And while the live concerts are over, the preconcert lectures remain available, as is this panel discussion...
by Liane Curtis | Jul 7, 2021
Here is our Selection of News Links! Chi-Chi Nwanoku (OBE), bassist and founder of Chineke! Orchestra, has worked to recover the role of George Bridgetower, a violinist of African descent, who inspired and premiered Beethoven’s Sonata op. 47. Nwanoku’s...
by Liane Curtis | Apr 11, 2021
By Mary Purpura Previously we posted Mary Purpura’s moving account of the work of The Women’s Philharmonic. Today we continue her consideration of the obstacles that remain to bringing women’s compositions into the mainstream. These essays are...
by Liane Curtis | Apr 4, 2021
This blog post of May 17, 2020 was one of our most popular of last year, and as we passed the one-year anniversary of the shutdowns and quarantines in response to Covid-19, it is worthwhile to recall Fanny Mendelssohn’s response to the frightening pandemic of...
by Liane Curtis | Mar 12, 2021
Music educator Miriam Capellan returns (her previous blog is here) with a vivid account of special day in the life (pandemic version) of a primary level music teacher. The new work being rehearsed can be heard in performance Saturday March 13, 2021 (links below)...
