News and music to start your week! Jessica Duchen of The JC has the story of Erika Fox, a composer born in Vienna in 1936 who now at age 82 is celebrating the release of the first album of her compositions. The CD features chamber pieces spanning a 25-year period...
Much has already been noted about the coming performances in the 2019 Proms Season – and the lack of women composers being represented. Editorials appeared in The Guardian shortly after the 2019 Program was announced noting specifically that while the number of...
News and music to start your week! Marin Alsop has started a fellowship for women conductors to help encourage the number of women entering the field. She was interviewed by the New York Times about this new project, her career until this point, and the hurdles that...
Music and News to start your week! The New York Times profiled Alma Deutscher – violinist, pianist, and composer who has been putting the classical music world in awe since she was just 4 years old. Now 14, she’s working on a retrospective album and also...
The city of Bonn has hosted an annual Schumannfest since 1998 to celebrate the lives and music of two of the city’s most famous residents: Robert Schumann and Ludwig van Beethoven. However, in 2007 the name of the festival changed from the Bonn Schumann...
