Category: concerts
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WPA News Digest – September 16, 2024
To start your week, here are a few recent stories that caught our attention! In a surprising announcement this week, the Berlin Philharmonic’s concertmaster Vineta Sareika has announced that she will leave her position with the orchestra. Her final appearances with it as concertmaster will be in February 2025. Her departure will occur near the…
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Listen to this! Farrenc Symphony n. 3 streams!
We know Louise Farrenc is one of our favorite composers, and one we discuss frequently, but still it is not often that a major US orchestra performs her work AND makes it available in a streaming format! The American Symphony Orchestra, directed by Leon Botstein, performs Farrenc’s Symphony n. 3 in G Minor, Op. 36,…
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Tonight, Boston Landmarks Orchestra concert “Seen-Unseen: The Symphonic Legacy of Black American Women”
Tonight, Boston Landmarks Orchestra presents “Seen-Unseen” — Wednesday, July 26 at 7:00pm, at Boston’s Hatch Shell on the Charles River. The concert includes the Overture to Shirley Graham’s opera “Tom-Tom,” which was performed in Cleveland in 1932. Dr. Lucy Caplan writes: “Ten thousand spectators came on the first night; fifteen thousand more on the second.…
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A few events, May 5-7, 2023
There are so many exciting concerts happening in this busy time! We hope you get to take in a few — or more! Just to highlight some very special events — May 5-6, the Boulanger Initiative has their annual WOCO Fest “Awaken!” — celebrating Women and gender-marginalized Composers! The Festival takes place in Bethesda Maryland…