Category: recordings
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Featured Guest Blogger: Carol Cubberley on (RE)Discovering Amanda Maier
Carol Cubberley, a freelance violinist in Boston, MA, became interested in uncovering music by women while at Boston Conservatory, and chose to play only music composed by women at her masters recital. In 2013 Carol was the violinist for the Apple Hill Festival fellowship trio and was a teaching assistant at Apple Hill in the summer of…
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Monday Link Round Up: January 18, 2016
Some links to start your week! ICYMI Swedish Radio broadcast Ellen Nisbeth performing Rebecca Clarke’s Sonata for Viola which was orchestrated by Ruth Lomon. The program will be available to stream here for the next month. Mari Valverde has an insightful piece at New Music Box on the musical hoops that composers often ask sopranos…
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Listening to Women Online
We are thrilled to have received so many applications for the 2015 Performance Grant! It only takes a quick glance to get excited about the innovative, engaging, and out-of-the-box programming that so many professional, community, and youth ensembles have planned for the future! As we send the applications off to our panel of judges for…
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New Recordings of Bacewicz String Quartets
Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969) was a prolific Polish composer, and only the second female Polish woman to receive recognition for her work in composition. Not surprisingly, much of her music (including several symphonies and seven concerti featuring the violin) are forgotten in the repertoire. We can take heart that the Lutoslawski Quartet is working to correct that. The ensemble has…