Featured Guest Blogger: Kendra Preston Leonard Today we feature the second installment in our Featured Guest Blogger series, again focusing on the work of Kendra Preston Leonard and her new book on Lousie Talma. Leonard is a musicologist whose work focuses on women...
Congratulations to Julia Wolfe on winning the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Anthracite Fields. The piece is an oratorio inspired and based on the lives of Pennsylvania coal miners. It was commissioned by the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia. Their website is full of...
Last week it was announced that Opera America will be awarding Discovery Grants to seven women composers in support of the development of their operas. The Opera Grants for Female Composers program is funded by The Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation, which also funds the...
Composer Tania León will be at Harvard TODAY at 4:00 p.m. for a conversation about her work and music. León will be discussing many aspects of her career including her work in composition, conducting, teaching, and arts leadership. The event is free and open to the...
The Mount Holyoke Symphony Orchestra, winner of a 2014 Performance Grant, will have their final concert of the season on Friday, April 17 featuring Helen Hopekirk’s Concertstück. Helen Hopekirk (1856-1945) was a Scottish pianist and composer who immigrated to...
