Must-Listen Radio: WQXR’s Price of Admission

by | Mar 13, 2013

Offering the perfect coda to our recent posts on Florence Price and Margaret Bonds, WQXR’s just-produced radio documentary The Price of Admission devotes a full hour to the life and music of Price. Hosted by former Morehouse professor of music Terrance McKnight,...
Honoring Margaret Bonds

Honoring Margaret Bonds

by | Mar 11, 2013

I was thrilled to hear NPR reporting on a woman composer on All Things Considered recently. Celeste Headlee spoke with Louise Toppin, opera singer and voice professor at the University of North Carolina, on the life and work of Margaret Bonds. Bonds, who died in 1972,...

New Fanny Mendelssohn Recording

by | Jan 31, 2013

The French string quartet Ebène just released a new CD pairing the work of Fanny Mendelssohn with her brother Felix. Visit NPR to catch up on a story done by All Things Considered about the ensemble and their new CD release. The NPR page also has the Allegro molto...
The Performance: Beach’s Concerto Comes to Life!

The Performance: Beach’s Concerto Comes to Life!

by | Nov 16, 2012

Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in area premiere of rare, remarkable Concerto. [update added at end after hearing second performance] Amy Beach was 33 years old when she gave the premiere performance of her own Piano Concerto (op. 45 in C-Sharp Minor) in April 1900....

Beach’s Concerto Comes to Life!

by | Nov 15, 2012

It’s one thing to know a piece from recordings and quite another to hear it come to life in performance. For those trying to get to know Amy Beach’s Piano Concerto, I think it helps to be familiar with the three songs that she drew on for themes. These are...