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...
by Liane Curtis | Dec 14, 2016
In our first ever Podcast, journalist Naomi Lewin and opera dramaturg Cori Ellison discuss the Met’s production of Kaija Saariaho’s 2000 opera “L’Amour de Loin.” Naomi Lewin has produced the podcast, which includes interview clips with...
by Liane Curtis | Oct 27, 2016
An opera about the original “Nasty Woman,” Victoria Woodhull, will be performed tomorrow at the National Opera Center in New York City, Friday Oct. 28. Composer Victoria Bond wrote the work in 2000, together with librettist Hillary Bell. It will also be streamed...
by Liane Curtis | Oct 22, 2016
“Fanny for ballet!!” read the text message. I blinked and did a double-take at the accompanying photo. Indeed, selections of Fanny Hensel’s “Das Jahr” — The Year — a cycle of piano pieces composed in 1841, were the music for a...
