Some stories and links to start your week: Test your knowledge with the monthly quiz sponsored by Into the Light Radio. The first person to correctly name the composer and piece will win an orchestral sampler CD from WPA! Find the quiz here. Evelyn Glennie, who is...
Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969) was a prolific Polish composer, and only the second female Polish woman to receive recognition for her work in composition. Not surprisingly, much of her music (including several symphonies and seven concerti featuring the violin) are...
NPR’s Morning Edition covered Jennifer Higdon’s new opera, Cold Mountain. The work, which has been in development for over two years, premiered last weekend to a sold out audience in Santa Fe. It will be heard in Philadelphia later this year. Paul Ingles...
The long awaited, and much debated, documentary that investigates the role of Anna Magdalena Bach as not only wife but collaborator and, most controversially, composer of the Cello Suites, is now available online. The evidence uncovered and explored by musicologist...
Some news to start the week: Anna Meredith’s Smatter Hauler, a BBC Commission, received its World Premiere at The Proms – you can listen to a recording of the performance online here. Alex Ross attended a performance of The Wreckers and wrote about it...
