Happy Birthday, Louise Farrenc!

by Liane Curtis | May 31, 2024

We love Louise Farrenc and all her wonderful music!  In honor of her birthday today, May 31, we are featuring a Youtube  video introduction about Farrenc, recorded by Dr. Liane Curtis in 2021 and lightly edited for this re-release.  This TIMELINE  is referred to in...

Happy 100th Birthday, Julia Perry!

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...

Happy Birthday, Chen Yi!

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.  

Happy Birthday, Amy Beach!

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...

Monday Link Round Up: February 4, 2019

by sarah | Feb 4, 2019

News and music to start your week! PBS Newshour had the story about the San Fransciso Civic Symphony and their conductor, Jessica Bejarano.  Growing up in an environment that didn’t particularly embrace classical music, Bejarano speaks about the challenges she...

Congratulations to the 2018 Performance Grant Winners!

by sarah | Jan 2, 2019

The 2018 WPA Performance Grant cycle brought a record number of applicants, exciting and diverse concerts to consider, and many wonderful programs to anticipate throughout the years of 2019 and 2020! As in the past, the strongest applicants programmed works by more...