News to start your week! Shana Tova to everyone celebrating the new year! In honor of Rosh Hashanah Time Magazine remembers Betty Robbins, the first (known) woman cantor. The magazine profiled her in 1955 and the piece this week follows up with conversations her...
We are always enthusiastic about any project that recognizes the work of women composers, and the new podcast, Listening to Ladies, is a project that we are particularly excited about! The Listening to Ladies Facebook Page was begin by composer Elizabeth Blair and...
News to start your week! A new opera by Missy Mazzoli premiered in Philadelphia this past weekend. The work, Breaking the Waves, is based on a film by the same name Lars von Trier film. Mazzoli spoke to NPR’s morning edition this past weekend. Read the...
We are thrilled to hear that American composer Julia Wolfe is a 2016 recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant. She is only the third women composer to be awarded in the history of the prize. (The first was Bernice Johnson Reagon, founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock, who...
There are two chances this weekend to hear the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra (ROCO) of Houston, TX present exactly the kind of diverse program that audiences have been calling for. It was because of this thoughtful, inclusive, and engaging programming that the ROCO...
