News and music to start your week! Sorry to be late with our update, we’re just back from Minneapolis, where huge things are happening at the Minnesota Orchestra with Maestro Sarah Hicks! A few weeks ago, the hip-hop artist Dessa live-recorded an album with the...
News and music to start your week! The Philadelphia Orchestra was in the news this week for hiring two new conductors – both of whom happen to be women. Erina Yashima has been appointed assistant conductor, and Lina Gonzalez-Granados is the newly appointed...
News and music to start your week! Smithsonian Magazine has a great article about Hawai’i’s last ruler and composer Queen Lili’uokalani. Last year a new orchestra formed in the UK specifically for musicians with disabilities. Classical FM has a...
News and music to start your week! Did you read all of our reports from the Society for American Music conference in New Orleans? You can catch up on Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3! The Boston Globe has a great piece on the efforts by conductor Thomas Wilkins to diversify...
News and music to start your week! Afghanistan’s first all-female orchestra is now on tour in the UK! They will perform in Oxford and London, with the highest profile venue being the British Museum. Read more about the orchestra and the tour at the BBC...
Happy Women’s History Month, and we hope you had a great International Women’s Day! News and music to start your week! Go to the Washington Post to read Anne Midgette’s piece last week about International Women’s Day, the Boulanger Initiative,...
