The Wreckers: An Opera for our Time

by Liane Curtis | Jul 23, 2015

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

by sarah | Jul 21, 2015

  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...

Featured Guest Blog: Louise Talma (Part III!)

by sarah | May 7, 2015

Featured Guest Blogger: Kendra Preston Leonard Today we feature the third installment in our Featured Guest Blogger series, again focusing on the work of Kendra Preston Leonard and her new book on Lousie Talma. Leonard is a musicologist whose work focuses on women and...

Featured Guest Blog: Louise Talma (Part II!)

by sarah | Apr 23, 2015

Featured Guest Blogger: Kendra Preston Leonard  Today we feature the second installment in our Featured Guest Blogger series, again focusing on the work of Kendra Preston Leonard and her new book on Lousie Talma.  Leonard is a musicologist whose work focuses on women...

Featured Guest Blog: Discovering Louise Talma’s First Orchestral Works

by Liane Curtis | Apr 2, 2015

Featured Guest Blogger:  Kendra Preston Leonard   We are happy to be launching a new series of guest bloggers. Leonard’s book Louise Talma: A Life in Composition (Ashgate) was published last year and caught our attention, so we are honored to have her as our...