Monday Link Round Up: August 1, 2016

News to start your week! Melvyn Krauss has a great piece at Bloomberg.com titled, “Why More Women are Winning at Musical Chairs”.  Krauss, emeritus professor of economics at NYU and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, provides a...
Celebrating New Music and Marin Alsop at Cabrillo

Celebrating New Music and Marin Alsop at Cabrillo

The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music begins on July 31.  This annual event is always worth anticipating and hugely rewarding – but this year is particularly special as it is Marin Alsop’s last at the helm.  Alsop is stepping down after 25 years as...

Monday Link Round Up: April 11, 2016

News to start your week!   Susanna Mälkki’s work continues to be recognized.  Not long ago she was named the new Chief Conductor of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, and just this week it was announced that she is the new Principal Guest Conductor of the...

Monday Link Round Up: March 21, 2016

News to start your week!   The Women Composers Festival of Hartford, which took place March 10-13, included a keynote address by WPA President Liane Curtis.  Conductor Dr. Amelia Nagoski offered her reflection on Liane’s message on her blog, Thoughtful...

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla in the News

Audiences are getting more and more familiar with the name Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla for good reason.  The up and coming conductor is gaining attention – and acclaim – for her work in the United States and around the world. NBC Today recently...
Listen to FEMALE CONDUCTORS — a whole LOT of them!!

Listen to FEMALE CONDUCTORS — a whole LOT of them!!

Back on Aug. 9, 2015, Jeremy Eichler (the Boston Globe’s classical music critic) annoyed me by repeatedly using male pronouns in an article about the art of conducting.  True, the article’s focus was the Boston SO’s new(ish) music director Andris Nelsons, but I...