Feminist in the Concert Hall
Monday Link Round Up: June 29
Some news worth reading: Alex Ross wrote about the 2015 Ojai Music Festival, which took place earlier in June, in the July 6 edition of The New Yorker. Featured composers at this year's festival included Anna Thorvaldsdottir. The International Contemporary Ensemble...
Happy Birthday to Mildred Hill
Happy Birthday to Mildred Hill, born June 27, 1859. Though her name isn't familiar, Mildred Hill (1859-1916) composed what is arguably the most popular and recognizable melody sung today. A musicologist, educator, and songwriter, Hill, along with her sister,...
2015 Summer Festivals
Summer is official upon us - and so, too, is the summer festival season. Here are some highlights of works by women that can be heard this year. The Aspen Music Festival will include works by Nina C. Young (winner of the 2014 Jacob Druckman Prize), Judith Shatin,...
Monday Link Round Up: June 22
Some stories that caught our eye over the weekend: Composers Now has announced that Jin Hi Kim and Peter Van Zandt Lane have been awarded the second annual Composers Now Creative Residencies. The residencies will take place in November 2015 and each composer will...
New Opera by Anne LeBaron
Award winning composer Anne LeBaron has a new opera exploring the micro-tonality of Harry Partch and the mind altering effects of drugs. The work is called LSD: The Opera, and several new scenes from the work are being performed this week in Los Angeles. For more...
New Recording of Bach Cello Suites
It wasn't that long ago that the question of authorship for the Cello Suites - and the idea that they were written not by Bach but (gasp!) his wife - stirred up musicologists, music journalists, and any music enthusiast with their two cents to add to the conversation....