Alex Ross has a great piece being published in the next New Yorker about Australian composer Liza Lim. Read the full piece here to learn more about Lim’s background as well as to get a sense of her musical style and how her song cycle “Mother Tongue”...
Just stumbled across this brilliant archival footage of the British Women’s Symphony Orchestra: THE BRITISH WOMEN’S SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The ensemble was founded in 1922 (this clip is from 1934). Thanks to http://www.britishpathe.com/ for the video,...
Tania León (b. 1943) is a Cuban born composer and conductor. She began studying piano at the age of four and went on to complete a Bachelor’s Degree at the Alfredo Peyrellade Conservatory and a Master’s Degree from National Conservatory. She settled in...
Dana Suesse (1909-1987), born in Kansas City, Montana, was a child vaudeville star who eventually left the circuit and moved to New York with her mother when she was just seventeen. There she began to compose larger works and made a name for herself. Among her more...
Rolande Falcinelli (1920-2006) was a French born organist, pianist, composer, and educator. Falcinelli studied at the Paris Conservatory, and her teachers included Marcel Dupré. Falcinelli studied and performed Dupré’s works throughout her life, once playing a...
