by sarah | Aug 6, 2019
News and music to start your week! The 2020 Women Composers Festival of Hartford has been announced! The composer-in-residence will be Melika Fitzhugh (pictured) and the ensemble-in-residence is Craft Ensemble. They have also posted calls for presentations,...
by sarah | Jul 29, 2019
News and music to start your week! Don’t miss composer Emily Doolittle’s wonderful piece about her experience with gender imbalance in concert programming. It is wonderfully titled, Why Yes, I Do Want My Music Performed and is available on NewMusicBox....
by sarah | Jul 22, 2019
News and music to start your week! Conductor Karina Canellakis (pictured) made BBC Proms history by being the first woman conductor to lead the ensemble at the First Night of the Proms. Read more about the historic night, and the kick off of the 2019 Proms Season, at...
by sarah | Jul 15, 2019
News and music to start your week! In case you missed it, don’t miss reading Megan Lavengood’s excellent piece on gender and hiring as it relates to the field of Music Theory Andrew Clements reviews the new recording by Isata Kanneh-Mason (pictured) of...
by sarah | Jul 8, 2019
News and music to start your week! Congratulations to Akiko Fujimoto (pictured above), the first woman to be named Artistic Director of the Mid-Texas Symphony. Last season the ensemble had a public audition process to find the new director, with four finalists each...
