Symphony Guide Featuring Louise Farrenc
In case you missed it, Tom Service, music critic for The Guardian, featured Louise Farrenc’s Third Symphony in his running Symphony Guide series on his blog. It’s always wonderful to see a historic(!) woman(!)’s work being featured in a serious...BBC School Initiative: Ten Pieces
Word was just released about a new initiative spearheaded by the BBC in British primary schools to awaken youth to classical music, and to get them enthusiastic from a young age. The program, as described by the BBC, is to bring professional musicians into schools...Iran’s First Female Conductor
Public Radio International (PRI) aired a story yesterday on Nazanin Aghakhani – the first woman to conduct an orchestra in Iran. Listen (or find the full text) here. Here is a clip from Aghakani’s YouTube page: A composer as well as a conductor, you...Liza Lim in the New Yorker
Alex Ross has a great piece being published in the next New Yorker about Australian composer Liza Lim. Read the full piece here to learn more about Lim’s background as well as to get a sense of her musical style and how her song cycle “Mother Tongue”...