by Liane Curtis | Oct 29, 2015
The Women Composers Festival of Hartford (WCFH) is an indomitable event that has been taking place in March for fifteen years. Composers, musicians and scholars come together to create this Festival, and on Friday October 26, 2015, their Board of Directors organized...
by Liane Curtis | Oct 20, 2015
It’s all happenin’ in Hartford, CT! Friday, Oct. 23, the Women Composers Festival of Hartford presents this concert, Love, Motherhood, and the Female Gaze, as part of their fundraising campaign for their annual Festival. They are fundraising for the...
by Liane Curtis | Sep 10, 2015
This article was reprinted in April 2020, by the Boston Musical Intelligencer, with the provoking title “An American Scriabin?” Today’s Featured Guest Blogger is the renowned pianist, educator and radio journalist Virginia Eskin. A Boston and New...
by Liane Curtis | Jul 29, 2015
Dr. Amy Zigler is Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Salem College in Winston-Salem, NC. She specializes in music of the 19th and 20th centuries, with a focus on the cultural study of chamber music, the social history of music in Germany and Great Britain,...
by Liane Curtis | Jul 23, 2015
Ethel Smyth’s “The Wreckers” (1906) will receive its’ first staged US performance Friday night (July 24) at Bard Summerscape (total of 5 performances). NPR’s All Things Considered aired a feature (available here) about this historic performance (Musicologist...