Category: premiere
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Music You Shouldn’t Miss
We are quickly approaching the end of the 2015-2016 concert season – but that hasn’t slowed down the pace of excellent concerts happening across the country. This weekend two winners of WPA Performance Grants will present works by women. On Saturday and Sunday the Williamsburg Symphonia will present Florence Price’s Symphony No. 3. We…
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“Figaro Gets a Divorce” — new opera a triumph in Wales!
Composer Elena Langer has achieved a brilliant success as she “completes” the Figaro “trilogy” for Welsh National Opera. Complementing Mozart’s “Marriage” and Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville,” Langer’s “Figaro Gets a Divorce” brings us the beloved characters down the road form the “Marriage”s happy ending, in this opera “which is part comedy, part political thriller.” If you can…
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Celebrating March With Music by Women
March is Women’s History Month – and while we think that every month is good time to include women’s work in concert program, it’s a particularly appropriate time to reflect on women’s work and impact through time. There are several exciting concerts to look forward to this weekend – and we at WPA are thrilled…
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New Works This Weekend
Congratulations to the Community Women’s Orchestra and Hartford Independent Chamber Orchestra – both WPA Performance Grant winners presenting works by women composers in concerts this weekend! This Saturday, February 20, the Hartford Independent Chamber Orchestra (HICO) will perform a concert titled “Voices of Connecticut Poets” and will feature the world premiere of a new work by Jessica…