Author: Liane Curtis
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Juneteenth Celebrations with Orchestral Music (2024)
We’d like to highlight just a few of the many many Juneteenth Celebrations that will be taking place across the US over the next week, with some orchestras also featuring women composers. The Minnesota Orchestra’s Juneteenth Celebration is today Friday June 14, and includes Margaret Bonds’ Benediction from her Montgomery Variations, and William Grant Still’s…
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Women Conductors in the 2024-2025 Season
By Sarah Baer We recently published our Repertoire Report for the coming concert season – you can read the full piece here. The unsurprising truth is that top tier organizations are actively working backwards – regressing – in terms of equitable programming, with many ensembles performing fewer works by women in the coming season than…
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Composers to Discover! Ida Moberg’s Transfiguration
We continue our series, Composers to Discover! featuring essays by students in the Public Musicology Certificate Program at Columbus State University. Violinist Samuel Vargas Teixeira has an international career as a performer and recently graduated from the Schwob School of Music at Columbus University (Georgia) with a Masters in Music. In 2021 he won first…
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Happy Birthday, Louise Farrenc!
We love Louise Farrenc and all her wonderful music! In honor of her birthday today, May 31, we are featuring a Youtube video introduction about Farrenc, recorded by Dr. Liane Curtis in 2021 and lightly edited for this re-release. This TIMELINE is referred to in the Youtube video at 4:36 Louise Farrenc (born Jeanne-Louise Dumont)…