by Liane Curtis | Jan 17, 2016
“AND THEY COMPOSE, CONDUCT – OF COURSE!” — two days of exciting and informative events in Munich, 31st Jan. 2016 – 1st Feb. 2016 The Conference addresses the pressing question, “Why there are still so few women conductors and women composers in the...
by Liane Curtis | Dec 11, 2015
Back on Aug. 9, 2015, Jeremy Eichler (the Boston Globe’s classical music critic) annoyed me by repeatedly using male pronouns in an article about the art of conducting. True, the article’s focus was the Boston SO’s new(ish) music director Andris Nelsons, but I...
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...
