by sarah | Aug 8, 2016
News to start your week: Elizabeth Blair – herself a composer, activist, and writer – has a fantastic interview with composer Lisa Coons available to read now at VAN Magazine. Frank Oteri at New Music Box has an interview with American composer Eleanor...
by sarah | Aug 3, 2016
A new month means a new edition of the WPA Calendar honoring historic composers! The August calendar is now live and ready to be downloaded and shared – get your copy here!
by sarah | Aug 1, 2016
News to start your week! Melvyn Krauss has a great piece at Bloomberg.com titled, “Why More Women are Winning at Musical Chairs”. Krauss, emeritus professor of economics at NYU and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, provides a...
by sarah | Jul 27, 2016
The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music begins on July 31. This annual event is always worth anticipating and hugely rewarding – but this year is particularly special as it is Marin Alsop’s last at the helm. Alsop is stepping down after 25 years as...
by sarah | Jul 25, 2016
News to start your week! ICYMI, Philip Clark shared his thoughts in The Guardian in a blog post titled “Where have the great composers gone?” His thesis is, essentially, that contemporary music doesn’t compare to composers like Britten, Tippet,...
