It was just announced that the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas (POA) will be suspending operations due to finances. This is sad news, but (unfortunately) not surprising due to the continued financial difficulties facing all arts organizations. Why I am...
NPR’s Classical Music blog, Deceptive Cadence, has been running a series on how to introduce and include children in classical music making and appreciating. The series has included many thoughtful comments by readers as well as guest-posts from some big names –...
The annual Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, held in Santa Cruz, California, has a history of highlighting music by women. This is due in part to the festival focusing on living composers – however, I suspect that it is in part a happy consequence of the...
I’m late in posting this, but the Spring For Music series (which I mentioned earlier), teamed with NPR to make the performance the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra available to stream online. One of the pieces heard in this performance is a relatively newly commissioned...
John von Rhein of The Chicago Tribune recently reported on the passing of the baton from Paul Freeman to Mei-Ann Chen, which I first discussed here. Of the significance of Chen’s placement, von Rhein said: The emergence of women conductors in the symphonic mainstream...
