Some news to start your week! It was announced earlier this year that the coming Cabrillo Festival will be Marin Alsop’s last. NewMusicBox has a great piece on how the festival has evolved during Alsop’s tenure – read more here. The Meet the...
Some links to start the week! Louise Farrenc is BBC Radio 3’s Composer of the Week! Listen to the radio show below! I also missed in sharing that BBC Radio 3 also featured Vítězslava Kaprálová as Composer of the Week earlier in October. Jessica Duchen...
Catch up on the news from the weekend: The Guardian asked composer Anna Clyne (among others) to put together a Classical Music for Beginners list. She includes works by Kaija Saariaho and Caroline Shaw – read, and listen, here. NPR did a great piece on the life...
Some links to start your week: Earlier this month Kaija Saariaho was interviewed by the San Francisco Classical Voice discussing her role not only as a composer, but as an educator. Read the full interview here. Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra has been...
Some news to start your week! As we talk about inclusiveness of women, we must also address topics of race. Over the summer the Metropolitan Opera decided to ban the use of blackface in performances of Otello. This week Anne Midgette of The Washington Post spoke to...
Some links to start your week! WPA President was a guest blogger over at Song of the Lark. Read her thoughts on the current state of classical programming, and what can be done to change it here. A bit delayed – but I just stumbled upon Richard Brody’s...
