Author: sarah
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Monday Link Round Up: August 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 thoughtful discussion and on the history and progress of women in the field of…
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Celebrating New Music and Marin Alsop at Cabrillo
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 artistic director and leading the festival to ever new and exciting…
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Monday Link Round Up: July 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, Davies, and Birswistle. You can read the full piece here. What’s most important about this piece is…
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Diverse Programming at the Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra
More and more ensembles have been embracing the summer festival season in recent years, and using the opportunity to explore new approaches in performance venues and programming. The Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra is one of the most established summer ensembles, first established in 1987 to extend the classical music season into the summer months. Though…