News to start your week! The conversation about the importance and value of L’Amour de Loin at the Met continues! The New York Times has profiles, and listening samples, from 10 contemporary women opera composers. Read — and listen — here. The...
News to start your week! Congratulations to Jennifer Higdon on two Grammy Nominations! The new recording of Higdon’s first opera, Cold Mountain, has been nominated for the Best Opera Recording as well as the Best Contemporary Classical Composition. Read more...
News to start your week! On December 1 the Met Opera performed L’Amour de Loin by Kaija Saariaho. This historic Met premiere marked only the second time a work by a woman composer has been heard at the institution – the last being over a century ago....
News to start your week! First, some very sad news of the death of a pioneer. Pauline Oliveros has passed at age 84. There are many remembrances and tributes. The Guardian has a remembrance, Alex Ross invites readers to listen in, and NPR included a story about...
News to start your week! Meredith Monk is celebrating her 74th birthday! Sequenza 21 has a birthday tribute, and review of her newest recording, here. Last week we shared an article about cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason who is working for more diverse...
News to start your week! Young cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason has been named BBC’s Young Musician for 2016. A rising star in Britain, Kanneh-Mason was the first black musician to win this award, and is now calling for more inclusion in the world of...
