The Performing Arts Department of the Library of Congress publishes a semi-regular blog titled In the Muse. The blog has great information featuring items that are held in D.C. and are available for perusal. A Music Cataloger at the LOC, Laura Yust, was a recent...
British composer and educator June Boyce-Tillman just premiered a new work in honor of Julian of Norwich(appropriately) at the Norwich Cathedral. Though the premiere managed did not appear even as a blip on the radar of music journalists, the work or performance did...
That the New York Philharmonic has a poor history of including women composers in their season offerings isn’t news, at least not to Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy or those of you who have been following our work. Data from repertoire reports (which I wrote about here...
Allan Kozinn, of the New York Times, recently offered a brief artist profile of American composer Julia Wolfe. You can read the full piece here. As Kozinn conveys in his piece, Wolfe is an incredibly an incredibly active composer, involved not only with multiple...
Each year the League of American Orchestras compiles repertoire information from member orchestras from across the country. These ensembles, which range from some of the most outstanding orchestras in the world to regional and youth orchestras, provide this...
Sunday, November 14, was Fanny Mendelssohn’s 205th birthday. I wrote about Fanny recently in conjunction with R. Larry Todd’s new work, Fanny Hensel – The Other Mendelssohn. Big sister of Felix, Fanny demonstrated the same musical aptitude as her brother, and received...
