Saturday (September 5) marks the 148th birthday of American composer Amy Beach. She is remembered today as being the first American woman to achieve acclaim as a symphonist. Her first (and only symphony), which was subtitled “Gaelic”, was premiered by the...
Today’s Featured Guest Blogger is Canadian harpsichordist Katelyn Clark. Clark specializes in the performance of historical repertoire and experimental music on early keyboard instruments. Currently, her research focuses on the London pianoforte school and the...
The current issue of The New Yorker includes a column by Alex Ross in which he explores the ways in which the symphony has transformed in new music. As one would expect, it covered the most familiar names with only a few surprises (including Gloria Coates who, to...
The annual Tanglewood Festival hosts thousands of concert goers each year, drawn to the beautiful scenery and amazing music at the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer home. Over the past 75 years, the Tanglewood Music Center has also drawn devotees annually...
Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969) was a prolific Polish composer, and only the second female Polish woman to receive recognition for her work in composition. Not surprisingly, much of her music (including several symphonies and seven concerti featuring the violin) are...
The long awaited, and much debated, documentary that investigates the role of Anna Magdalena Bach as not only wife but collaborator and, most controversially, composer of the Cello Suites, is now available online. The evidence uncovered and explored by musicologist...
