Feminist in the Concert Hall
2019-2020 Season Follow Up
We recently posted our initial findings for the data we collected from the 2019-2020 season, and have received many comments and questions, and I'll answer as many as I can! We were asked was any composer besides Beethoven had more works performed than the total...
Monday Link Round Up: April 29, 2019
News and music to start your week! WQXR often posts listicles of note - this week they shared again their list of 12 Romantic Composers Not Named 'Liszt' or 'Brahms'. Included are: Louise Farrenc, Clara Schumann, Augusta Holmès, Teresa Carreño, Cecile Chaminade, and...
2019-2020 Season: By the Numbers
The 2019-2020 season announcements have been made, so now it’s time to crunch the numbers. As in years past, we looked at the top 21 orchestras with the highest operating budgets throughout the country to see what, and who, they were playing.* You can see last...
Monday Link Round Up: April 22, 2019
News and music to start your week! Congratulations to Ellen Reid on her Pulitzer Prize for p r i s m, an opera she composed with a libretto by Roxie Perkins. Read more at NPR, read what Alex Ross wrote about the piece in The New Yorker, and learn more about Reid in a...
Monday Link Round Up: April 15, 2019
News and music to start your week! Sorry to be late with our update, we're just back from Minneapolis, where huge things are happening at the Minnesota Orchestra with Maestro Sarah Hicks! A few weeks ago, the hip-hop artist Dessa live-recorded an album with the...
Monday Link Round Up: April 8, 2019
News and music to start your week! The Philadelphia Orchestra was in the news this week for hiring two new conductors - both of whom happen to be women. Erina Yashima has been appointed assistant conductor, and Lina Gonzalez-Granados is the newly appointed conducting...