Category: interviews
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Monday Link Round Up: September 3, 2018
News to start your week! Have you seen our report on who is being heard in the 2018-2019 orchestral concert season? Find all the news — good and bad — here. Listening to Ladies has a new podcast ready to stream and share! In the latest episode she talks to American composer Judith Shatin. Find…
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Speaking Her Truth: A Discussion with Jessica Rudman and Kendra Preston Leonard
We are delighted to share this conversation between Jessica Rudman (JR) and Kendra Preston Leonard (KPL) as they discuss the upcoming Hartford Opera Theater and Hartford Independence Chamber Orchestra’s program “Speaking Her Truth,” which includes Rudman’s micro-opera Trigger, Rudman and Leonard’s song cycle Four Songs for Lady Macbeth, and their opera Marie Curie Learns to…
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Monday Link Round Up: February 1, 2016
Some news to start your week! Philip Kennicott, art critic for The Washington Post, contributed to this month’s Opera News to discuss the ways in which topics of gender and race are handled – or not – in current opera productions. This comes after the Met ended the tradition of using blackface in Otello and recent conversations surrounding The Mikado…
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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 interviewed Gražinytė-Tyla, introducing her to audiences as the “woman conductor of the LA Philharmonic”. (She recently…