by Liane Curtis | Nov 18, 2018
We welcome Dr. Penny Brandt to Feminist in the Concert Hall! She is a musicologist who recently completed a Ph.D. Dissertation on composer Elsa Olivieri Sangiacomo Respighi, and who is known for her leadership role with the Hartford Festival of Women Composers. ...
by Liane Curtis | Oct 14, 2018
Salastina Music Society carried out a remarkably original experiment last weekend (Oct. 6 & 7) – raising issues of how and why some works get into the classical music canon – and some works don’t. Salastina’s two directors were struck by a certain...
by Liane Curtis | Sep 2, 2018
Timothy Diovanni concludes his reporting on the Society for American Music conference by joining with Liane Curtis and offering insights on the on the Vivian Perlis Concert in Honor of Chen Yi and Zhou Long. Zhou Long and Chen Yi are are Chinese-American composers...
by Liane Curtis | Aug 19, 2018
Update: concert postponed to Aug. 23 because of rain. Amy Beach’s delightful waltz, Bal Masqué, op. 22, is part of this week’s concert by Boston’s Landmark Orchestra. Titled “Symphonic Dances” the Aug. 22 event features “music to...
by Liane Curtis | Jul 30, 2018
Inge Kloepfer’s striking article “So sexistisch ist die Klassik — Classical Music is So Sexist” appeared on June 13, 2018 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. We wanted English-speaking readers to be able to read this important journalism,...
