News and music to start your week! Sorry to be late with our update, we’re just back from Minneapolis, where huge things are happening at the Minnesota Orchestra with Maestro Sarah Hicks! A few weeks ago, the hip-hop artist Dessa live-recorded an album with the...
News and music to start your week! The Philadelphia Orchestra was in the news this week for hiring two new conductors – both of whom happen to be women. Erina Yashima has been appointed assistant conductor, and Lina Gonzalez-Granados is the newly appointed...
News and music to start your week! Smithsonian Magazine has a great article about Hawai’i’s last ruler and composer Queen Lili’uokalani. Last year a new orchestra formed in the UK specifically for musicians with disabilities. Classical FM has a...
News and music to start your week! Did you read all of our reports from the Society for American Music conference in New Orleans? You can catch up on Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3! The Boston Globe has a great piece on the efforts by conductor Thomas Wilkins to diversify...
Our adventures at SAM in New Orleans continue with more fantastic papers, food, and camaraderie! On Saturday morning I attended a truly wonderful session focusing on the lives and music of Florence Price and Margaret Bonds, and considering new and intersectional ways...