Lansing Symphony Performs Helms

by sarah | Mar 5, 2015

The Lansing Symphony Orchestra, winner of a 2014 Performance Grant, will present Seven Ascents for Flute and Orchestra by Marjan Helms this weekend. Helms is the composer in residence at Michigan State University Community Music School and worked with LSO’s...

Community Women’s Orchestra to Perform Hillary Tann

by sarah | Mar 3, 2015

The Community Women’s Orchestra, based in Oakland, CA, was begun as an offshoot of The Women’s Philharmonic.  It was established in 1985 by Nan Washburn and continues to flourish.  From the start CWO has had a clear mission: The Community Women’s Orchestra...

Solar Winds at Brandeis University

by sarah | Feb 27, 2015

This Saturday (February 28) Solar Winds will present a not-to-be missed concert at Brandeis University.  This poster says it all: From their website: On February 28 at Brandeis University, Solar Winds will perform a concert of wind quintets composed entirely by...

NEW DISCOVERIES of Florence Price’s Music revealed in Arkansas Festival!!

by Liane Curtis | Feb 26, 2015

The historic importance of Florence Price (1887–1953), as the first African American woman to have a Symphony performed by a major orchestra, has been recognized.  However, while she had some success in her lifetime, after she died very little of her music remained...

Higdon in Philadelphia

by sarah | Feb 24, 2015

Jennifer Higdon is one of the most recognized and sought-out composers today.  She has won a Pulitzer Prize as well as a Grammy, is actively commissioned, and has already seen one premiere this year, will have another happening in just a few weeks, and her first opera...

The “Female Beethoven” rediscovered in north Germany!

by Liane Curtis | Feb 21, 2015

“The Norwegians have their Grieg, The Finns their Sibelius, the Poles have their Chopin.  And WE have Emilie Mayer – we just didn’t know it until now!”  So proclaimed the northern German Nordkurrier  in May 2012, when the Neubrandenburger Philharmonie...