Feminist in the Concert Hall
More rethinking of Mozart
[NB: I wanted to post this a comment to Sarah's Mozart post, but it got a little long, plus the comment feature doesn't seem to allow links. So I'm post-dating it so it will be under Sarah's post. -- Liane Curtis] In history, little is absolutely certain. The barest...
Guest Contributor, Maestro Apo Hsu, Reports on a Contemporary Music Concert from Tanglewood
Intro by Liane Curtis: Music Festivals of all kinds continue to find it acceptable to exclude women composers from their programming. Two cases in point are the Mostly Mozart Festival (critiqued on the blog "Life's a Pitch"), and the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary...
Good News for Marin Alsop
The Baltimore Sun just announced that Marin Alsop’s contract with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has been extended until “at least” 2015! The article, linked here, expresses the excitement that conductor and musicians felt at the development. Perhaps a quote from...
Women Conductors in LA Times
The Los Angeles Times recently printed a substantial article on recent appointments of several women conductors to prestigious orchestras. The piece opens with the recent news surrounding Xian Zhang and her appointment to The Giuseppe Verdi Orchestra in Milan, and the...
Joana Carneiro Wins Job at Berkeley
Portuguese-born conductor Joana Carneiro has been appointed as the new music director for the Berkeley Symphony. Carniero was the former assistant conductor of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the music director of the Los Angeles Debut Orchestra. The LA Times...
Historic Appointment in Italy
Chinese American conductor Xian Zhang has been appointed the musical director and conductor for Milan’s Orchestra Sinfonica (La Verdi). Gramophone announced the news in the first week of April. The ensemble had been without a conductor since the resignation of...