In honor of the Thanksgiving holiday, NPR music commentator Miles Hoffman did a report on musical families for Morning Edition. The light piece, lasting about seven minutes, discussed the work of a few of the best known (or “most likely to be known”) women that were...
There has been a recent buzz about the list of the world’s top symphonies that Gramophone has put together. It seems to have taken many classical music enthusiasts by surprise that the top American orchestra (listed as number five) is the Chicago Symphony. The...
I recently wrote about how the lack of diversity in symphony orchestras, and the work that is being done by the Sphinx Organization to increase those numbers by encouraging the involvement of young African American and Latino musicians. Lucky for us – the New York...
It was not all that long ago that women musicians were denied the chance to perform in a professional orchestra. The fight to be allowed a seat was hard fought, but won. The progress that has been made since that time, only several decades ago, is quite impressive....
The importance of authorship will always be a hot topic for musicologists. I spent my fair share of time hovering over Foucault’s essay on the Author Function, contemplating what influence the composers name itself has on the public reception of a work. When...
