by Liane Curtis | Mar 24, 2014
Today was the first day of the Tenth Annual Festival of Women in Music at the Eastman School of Music (Rochester, NY). The Festival was founded and is organized by pianist and Eastman Faculty member Sylvie Beaudette. Correct me if I’m wrong, but to my knowledge,...
by SMBrown | Mar 10, 2014
If a work by a female composer is actually programmed by a major metropolitan orchestra, but that city’s most respected and widely-circulated newspaper fails to mention it, do we have progress? The Boston Symphony Orchestra will perform Sofia Gubaidulina’s...
by Liane Curtis | May 13, 2013
Mei-Ann Chen is Music Director of the Memphis Symphony and the Chicago Sinfonietta. Earlier this year she guest-conducted with the San Diego Symphony, and on May 9 she made her subscription debut with the Chicago Symphony. This is four orchestras and their audiences...
by Liane Curtis | May 11, 2013
Acclaimed conductor Mei-Ann Chen is just completing her first year as Music Director of the Chicago Sinfonietta. And Thursday she made her debut as a guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s subscription series. She made quite a...
by Liane Curtis | Apr 29, 2013
By Laurine Celeste Fox, guest blogger. On Sunday, April 14, 2013, The Cecilia Chorus of New York, along with members of the Long Island University Post Chorus, gave the New York premiere of Ethel Smyth’s Mass in D Major. The 150+ voices of the choruses were joined by...
by Liane Curtis | Apr 4, 2013
In anticipation of the April 14 performance of Ethel Smyth’s Mass in D Major, Liz Wood (musicologist and widely published author) gave an illuminating talk about Smyth and the origins of her Mass. Virginia Woolf described Smyth’s vigorous character, calling her...
