Feminist in the Concert Hall
Monday Link Round Up: March 16, 2020
News (including some good news!) and music to start your week! The NPR Show Jazz Night in America has an hour long conversation with bassist Linda May Han Oh, pictured above. She speaks about her love of the form, her compositions, and what it's like to be a woman...
Monday Link Round Up: March 9, 2020
News and music to start your week! We hope that all women --and people of all genders! -- were able to celebrate and enjoy International Women's Day yesterday (March 8). There were musical celebrations around the world! Classical-Music.com compiled a selection of...
On the death of the Hungarian composer and pedagogue Erzsébet Szőnyi
We received this moving obituary of Erzsébet Szőnyi, written by Matthias Funkhauser of the German Kodály Society. Erzsébet Szőnyi (25 April 1924 – 28 December 2019) (also Erzsébet Szilágyi) was a Hungarian composer and music teacher. Her works encompass symphonic...
Monday Link Round Up: March 2, 2020
News and music to start your week! The Baltimore Sun reports that next season at The Baltimore Symphony will be the last for conductor Marin Alsop, pictured above. She has served as the conductor and artistic leader of the ensemble for 14 years. Opera Philadelphia...
Conferences, concerts as eventful Women’s History month is launched
March is always busy, and this one is especially so! Feb. 29 (Leap day!) we have a concert by the Bay Area Rainbow Symphony featuring the he West Coast premiere of Ethel Smyth's Overture to her opera The Boatswain's Mate. This overture includes Smyth's famous anthem,...
Monday Link Round Up: February 24, 2020
News and music to start your week! The Seattle Times introduces readers to Lina Gonzalez-Granados (pictured above) - one of the first Latin American women to hold a conducting position with the Seattle Symphony. BTW, Gonzalez-Granados' Boston-based Unitas Ensemble...