Author: Liane Curtis
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News Round-Up, July 6, 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 work has led the publisher Peters to reprint the Sonata naming it after Bridgetower, rather than…
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We Hold On To Women’s Music History By A Thin, Fraying Thread
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 drawn from Mary’s 2016 M.A. Thesis The Women’s Philharmonic: Its History and Legacy I began to fully grasp…
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A Great Composer responds to the pandemic. Fanny Mendelssohn in 1831
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 190 years ago. Thank you again to Dr. Regine Angela…
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A Composer Joins the Zoom Call
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) Composer and poet Regina Harris Baiocchi meets with students Miriam Capellan:…