Author: sarah
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Monday Link Round Up: September 19, 2016
News to start your week! Rising star conductor Mirga Gražinyté-Tyla is making her NYC debut today conducting the Juilliard Orchestra. She is leading the ensemble with Berlioz, Beethoven, and Fires from Lithuanian born composer Raminta Šerkšnytė. Find out more about the work here, and tickets and information about today’s concert is available here. OperaHub has announced a…
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Activism through Music
We’ve all heard that Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast (William Congreve) but music also has the power to incite action and raise awareness of critical issues in our society. Earlier this year we discussed The Dream Unfinished’s work, and the concert remembering and honoring the life of Sandra Bland and offering (from their…
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Monday Link Round Up: September 12, 2016
News to start your week! The Library of Congress blog, In the Muse, has a guest post by Kate Doyle, a doctoral candidate specializing in experimental composition and sound for performance art at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Doyle focused this past summer sorting and organizing the music commissioned for Erick Hawkins and his…
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Monday Link Round Up: September 5, 2016
Happy Labor Day! Here is some news to enjoy over the holiday, and to start your week! I just found out about the Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award. The prize awards a grant of $10,000 and a year of professional mentorship to an emerging female composer or composer/lyricist. The 2016 application deadline has just been extended until September…