by Liane Curtis | Apr 10, 2017
The 17th annual Women Composers Festival of Hartford invited musicologist Elizabeth Wood to be their Keynote Speaker, and Wood shares her energizing presentation with us here. It was really more of a Convocation: a kick-off of the Festival, a drawing together of...
by Liane Curtis | Feb 26, 2017
Last night (Feb. 24) in Chico, CA, the North State Symphony gave an enthralling area premiere of a new work by composer Libby Larsen. Dancing Man Rhapsody was written for violinist Terri Baune (Concertmaster of the North State Symphony) and commissioned by the NSS...
by Liane Curtis | Feb 25, 2017
The French musical world had a large number of notable women composers in the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries, as Florence Launay has pointed out. Augusta Holmès, Cécile Chaminade, and Lili Boulanger come to mind in particular. Now a detailed study has brought...
by Liane Curtis | Feb 21, 2017
16th Annual Festival of New Music at California State University, Fullerton – Feb. 22-26 “To the Ends of the Earth: Music from Iceland to Australia and Beyond” This year’s festival is dedicated in loving memory of Pauline Oliveros, founding...
by Liane Curtis | Jan 1, 2017
Happy New Year! Without a doubt, one of 2016’s most exciting music events was the performance of Kaija Saariaho’s “L’Amour de Loin” at New York’s Metropolitan Opera. Our very first podcast offered some insiders’ ideas about the production. Now, in our second...
