by Liane Curtis | Jul 6, 2016
Featured Guest Blogger Anja Bunzel — On the Occasion of Johanna Kinkel’s Birthday, July 8 In May we featured a blog post by Anja Bunzel, and we promised another post by her, about her dissertation subject Johanna Kinkel. Below, in honor of Kinkel’s birthday,...
by Liane Curtis | May 23, 2016
I was recently in touch with musicologist Anja Bunzel, because I am intrigued by her research project on Johanne Kinkel. Bunzel will write another post for us about Kinkel, but first we asked her to share with us about the annual conference of the Working Group for...
by Liane Curtis | May 12, 2016
UPDATE: Read a review of the “The Prison”s American debut. While composer Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) has some name recognition, one of her most important works, the concert-length cantata “The Prison”, has never been performed in the U.S.....
by Liane Curtis | Apr 6, 2016
If you have our April calendar, you know that we are celebrating some very important composers’ birthdays this month, including Florence Price, Germaine Tailleferre, and Ethel Smyth! Oh, and Happy Birthday, Phyllis Tate (today, April 6) — here’s part...
by Liane Curtis | Apr 6, 2016
Composer Elena Langer has achieved a brilliant success as she “completes” the Figaro “trilogy” for Welsh National Opera. Complementing Mozart’s “Marriage” and Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville,”...
