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...
News to start your week! The Guardian republished a piece from their archives about the history of all-women orchestras in the UK. There were several “Lady Orchestras” – in the United States and abroad – at the turn of the 20th century, who...
News to start your week! In honor of Halloween, take a few minutes to read about Elizabeth Lutyens – an English composer who worked in serialism, but who is perhaps most famous for the dozens of film scores she wrote for horror films! Read more here. The...
News to start your week! In another follow up to the performance of works by Saariaho by the New York Phil, read the review by Alex Ross in the October 31 issue of The New Yorker. The full article is available online here. Cellist Evangeline Benedetti...
News to start your week! The third episode of the Listening to Ladies podcast is live! Listen here to a conversation with composer and sound artist Anna Höstman. The New York Philharmonic performed a new work by Kaija Saariaho at the Park Avenue Armory this past...
