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...
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...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...
New Recording of Bach Cello Suites
It wasn’t that long ago that the question of authorship for the Cello Suites – and the idea that they were written not by Bach but (gasp!) his wife – stirred up musicologists, music journalists, and any music enthusiast with their two cents to add to...