by sarah | Oct 18, 2021
News and music to start your week! Congratulations to Nathalie Stutzmann, pictured above, who has been named the new conductor of the Atlanta Symphony! Stutzmann will be the only woman conducting one of America’s top orchestras when she takes the podium next...
by sarah | Oct 11, 2021
News and music to start your week! The New York Times ran a feature on the life and music of Louise Farrenc, pictured above. The French composer broke boundaries on many fronts, and her symphonies are fantastic works long overdue of performances and...
by sarah | Oct 4, 2021
News and music to start your week: We are thrilled at the release of new recordings of works by Florence Price! Recorded by The Philadelphia Orchestra and with the help and talent of pianist and Price advocate Michelle Cann (pictured above). The Philadelphia...
by sarah | Sep 27, 2021
News and music to start your week! Congratulations go to Terrance Blanchard (pictured above), the first Black composer to have a work performed at the Metropolitan Opera. His work, Fire Shut Up In My Bones, opens tonight! The New York Times talks to Blanchard about...
by sarah | Sep 20, 2021
News and music to start your week! Congratulations to Mary Watkins, recipient of Opera America’s Opera Grants for Female Composers! Learn more about her opera Dark River: The Fannie Lou Hammer Story as well as her Emmet Till: The Opera, scheduled for premiere...