NPR Covers “Cold Mountain”

NPR’s Morning Edition covered Jennifer Higdon’s new opera, Cold Mountain.  The work, which has been in development for over two years, premiered last weekend to a sold out audience in Santa Fe.  It will be heard in Philadelphia later this year. Paul Ingles...

Monday Link Roundup: August 3

Some news to start the week: Anna Meredith’s Smatter Hauler, a BBC Commission, received its World Premiere at The Proms – you can listen to a recording of the performance online here. Alex Ross attended a performance of The Wreckers and wrote about it...
Featured Guest Blogger: Amy Zigler reviews “The Wreckers”

Featured Guest Blogger: Amy Zigler reviews “The Wreckers”

    Dr. Amy Zigler is Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Salem College in Winston-Salem, NC.  She specializes in music of the 19th and 20th centuries, with a focus on the cultural study of chamber music, the social history of music in Germany and Great Britain,...

The Wreckers: An Opera for our Time

Ethel Smyth’s “The Wreckers” (1906) will receive its’ first staged US performance Friday night (July 24) at Bard Summerscape (total of 5 performances).  NPR’s All Things Considered aired a feature (available here)  about this historic performance (Musicologist...