Tania León

by | Mar 31, 2014

Tania León (b. 1943) is a Cuban born composer and conductor.  She began studying piano at the age of four and went on to complete a Bachelor’s Degree at the Alfredo Peyrellade Conservatory and a Master’s Degree from National Conservatory.  She settled in...

Women and Music Festival: Eastman Community Music School

by | Mar 30, 2014

The first of three Festival concerts on Saturday, March 29, was performed by students of the Eastman Community Music School.  Boys and girls performed works composed by women, and four girls performed really lovely pieces that they had written themselves.  The Lowry...

Dana Suesse: Musician, Composer, and Lyricist

by | Mar 29, 2014

Dana Suesse (1909-1987), born in Kansas City, Montana, was a child vaudeville star who eventually left the circuit and moved to New York with her mother when she was just seventeen.  There she began to compose larger works and made a name for herself.  Among her more...

Women in Music Festival: All-Higdon Concert, March 28

by | Mar 29, 2014

Sorry to have gotten behind in the blogging!  Here is last night’s concert, March 28. I love Jennifer Higdon’s music.  BUT I did have some trepidation that a whole concert of her music might be a bit much. My concern was needless.  The evening was completely...
Wang Jie on the Fast Track

Wang Jie on the Fast Track

by | Mar 28, 2014

In a relatively short time Wang Jie has made quite an impression on the classical music establishment. Last June the Orchestra of the League of Composers premiered Wang’s Oboe Concerto for the Genuine Hearts of Sadness, a work it had commissioned with funding in...

Rolande Falcinelli

by | Mar 27, 2014

Rolande Falcinelli (1920-2006) was a French born organist, pianist, composer, and educator. Falcinelli studied at the Paris Conservatory, and her teachers included Marcel Dupré.  Falcinelli studied and performed  Dupré’s works throughout her life, once playing a...