News to start your week! In case you missed it – conductor Mariss Jansons made news by saying that women conductors were “not [his] cup of tea”. After some significant backlash he later apologized. At the same time, the Dallas...
News to start your week! There have been some particularly excellent pieces to come out of WQXR in! Their list of Eight Classical Era Composers who aren’t named Mozart or Haydn includes Maria Teresea Agnesi Pinottini, Princess Anna Amalia, and Marianne...
News to start your week! Michael Tilson Thomas has announced that he will be retiring from the San Francisco Symphony. The San Francisco Chronicle considers who should be given the post – and the importance of having a music director who values the works of...
Lots of news to start your week! Anne Midgette has an important piece in The Washington Post about the difficulties women composers continue to face in having their works heard, and new commissions awarded. (There is funding out there, major orchestras just...
News to start your week! Celebrate Halloween with a soundtrack of music by women composers! Check out this fantastic YouTube playlist put together by Music Theory Examples by Women! Composer Lisa Bielawa writes on NewMusicBox about her new serial opera, Vireo....
News to start your week! Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble celebrated women composers this past weekend in a concert titled “Music She Wrote”. The concert included works by Jennifer Higdon and Libby Larsen. New Hampshire Public Radio has the story –...
