Judith Weir Featured at The Guardian

by sarah | Jun 3, 2012

In case you missed it, Tom Service, classical music blogger for The Guardian, put together a lovely guide to the music of British composer Judith Weir. Here is a excerpts of a performance of Weir’s Stars, Night, Music and Light, which was commissioned by the BBC...

Fanny Hensel’s Cantata in Streaming Broadcast, May 7 at 8 pm

by Liane Curtis | May 6, 2012

The Rochester Philharmonic’s concerts are encored in streaming radio broadcast— this concert (May 7,  2012 Monday, at 8 pm) starts with Fanny Hensel’s Cantata, “Job.”   Find the WXXI Classical 91.5 Stream Player here...

A Woman Composer Speaks Out

by Liane Curtis | Apr 4, 2012

Over on http://www.newmusicbox.org/ there is a lively—chaotic, even—debate going on about the identity politics of the “woman composer.”    Composer Rain Worthington wrote the post below as a comment to Rob Deemer’s post, A Helpful List .  With her...

Hilary Hahn and Gillian Whitehead

by sarah | Mar 3, 2012

As I mentioned last year, violinist Hilary Hahn has commissioned 27 new works to use as encore pieces. You can read about the project in an article from the Wall Street Journal here. Hilary has hand-picked 26 composers and is having a contest for the 27th piece(and...

Rochester PO Announces 2012-13 Season

by Liane Curtis | Mar 2, 2012

The Rochester Philharmonic just announced its 2012-13 Season.  In his second season, Maestro Arild Remmereit will continue the orchestra’s exploration of great works by women, both historic and contemporary. As we mentioned in our earlier post, we are thrilled...

Florence Price on NPR

by sarah | Feb 28, 2012

I am always delighted to stumble upon the name of a historic woman composer in the daily news—and kudos to NPR for making my day! Their classical music blog, Deceptive Cadence, highlighted new recordings of works by composer Florence Price —the first African American...