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...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...
Women at the 2015 Proms
The 2015 Proms kicked off on Friday, July 17 with another full lineup of fabulous and engaging concerts ahead. The role of women in music has been a hot topic in the London music scene this year, stemming largely from the popularity and publicity of BBC Radio...