Category: music history

  • Germaine Tailleferre: The Effects of Critics and Historians on her Reception

    Distinguished Guest Blogger Timothy Diovanni joins us again with a sequel to his previous article about Germaine Tailleferre, Malicious Men: The Harmful Effects of Tailleferre’s Father and Husbands on her Life and Career.     Imagine yourself in Paris in late May of 1923. You stand in front of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, an ornate hall…

  • Conference Report: American Women Composer-Pianists

    The recent international conference “American Women Composer-Pianists” named Amy Beach (1867-1944) and Teresa Carreño (1853-1917) as focal points, in celebration of the notable anniversaries connected with them (the 150th anniversary of Beach’s birth, and the 100th anniversary of Carreño’s death).  But the conference expanded to cover a wide range of other composer-pianists, including the British…

  • Monday Link Round Up: July 11, 2016

    News to start your week! We shared information last week about the upcoming concert by The Dream Unfinished and the amazing work being done by this activist orchestra.  The ensemble has also received some well-deserved press from The New York Times.   A new opera by Patricia Leonard just received its world premiere in Boston!  The opera, My…

  • Featured Guest Blog: Johanna Kinkel Research in the Twenty-First Century

    Featured Guest Blogger Anja Bunzel  —  On the Occasion of Johanna Kinkel’s Birthday, July 8 In May we featured a blog post  by Anja Bunzel, and we promised another post by her, about her dissertation subject Johanna Kinkel.  Below, in honor of Kinkel’s birthday, July 8, is that post.  Bunzel is a Ph.D. candidate at…