Category: featured guest blogger
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Composers to Discover! Ida Moberg’s Transfiguration
We continue our series, Composers to Discover! featuring essays by students in the Public Musicology Certificate Program at Columbus State University. Violinist Samuel Vargas Teixeira has an international career as a performer and recently graduated from the Schwob School of Music at Columbus University (Georgia) with a Masters in Music. In 2021 he won first…
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Composers to Discover! Maria Teresa Prieto — A Composer between Two Worlds
We are happy to launch a new series, Composers to Discover! featuring essays by students in the Public Musicology Certificate Program at Columbus State University. Coordinated by Dr. Reba Wissner, this unique program that trains students with real-world experiences in writing and research in a broad range of music topics. Our series of essays offer…
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The Absolutely Essential Work of The Women’s Philharmonic: Holding On To Women’s Music History By A Thin, Fraying Thread
We originally published this post on Feb 26, 2021 and are now reposting, since it is so important to our work! Guest author Mary Purpura completed an MA Thesis about The Women’s Philharmonic in 2016. Her research provided an important history of our founding organization, and we encouraged her to draw from her thesis and…
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Smyth’s Der Wald in forthcoming recording!
By Dr. Amy Zigler, an Ethel Smyth scholar and Associate Professor of Music at Salem College. She will be speaking about the recording, the female characters, and issues of agency in Der Wald at the Operatic Feminisms symposium on March 25, 2023, at Columbia University. Event info here. On January 10-12, 2023, I had…