by Liane Curtis | Mar 25, 2024
March 25 — Happy 100th Birthday, Julia Perry! Her Study for Orchestra was the first work by a black woman to be recorded by a professional orchestra. (Listen here) Her powerful Stabat Mater is performed here. The Akron Symphony has been researching and...
by Liane Curtis | Apr 4, 2023
The remarkable Chinese American composer Chen Yi turns 70 today! See our recent features on her here — January Composer-of-the-Month and here, on some performances of her music taking place.
by Liane Curtis | Sep 5, 2022
She was born Amy Marcy Cheney on this day in Henniker, NH. In celebration we are giving away copies of our critical edition of Mvt. II — Alla siciliana — from her Symphony op. 32, “Gaelic” — please fill out this form to receive your PDF...
by Liane Curtis | Oct 14, 2018
Salastina Music Society carried out a remarkably original experiment last weekend (Oct. 6 & 7) – raising issues of how and why some works get into the classical music canon – and some works don’t. Salastina’s two directors were struck by a certain...