2020-2021 Season: By the Numbers

by sarah | May 6, 2020

By Sarah Baer Even amid all of the chaos and uncertainty – and cancelled seasons – due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ensembles are planning for the future.  All major ensembles have released their 2020-2021 season announcements, so we have once again read...

Ruth Crawford Seeger’s Andante for Strings — and a problematic publisher

by Liane Curtis | Feb 15, 2020

Welcome to our Guest-blogger, Ian Sewell, a PhD Student in Music Theory at Columbia University. We thank him for sharing his experience about one of the 20th-century’s best- known works — and the difficulty in making an accurate and scholarly edition of...

Joshua Kosman’s Tribute to The Women’s Philharmonic

by Liane Curtis | Dec 30, 2019

Joshua Kosman is my favorite music critic. His energy, devotion, precision in focusing on the important issues as well as having a perspective on “the big picture” mean that I never tire of reading his work. I often ponder how fortunate the Bay Area of...

2019-2020 Season Follow Up

by sarah | May 1, 2019

We recently posted our initial findings for the data we collected from the 2019-2020 season, and have received many comments and questions, and I’ll answer as many as I can! We were asked was any composer besides Beethoven had more works performed than the total...

2019-2020 Season: By the Numbers

by sarah | Apr 26, 2019

The 2019-2020 season announcements have been made, so now it’s time to crunch the numbers.  As in years past, we looked at the top 21 orchestras with the highest operating budgets throughout the country to see what, and who, they were playing.*  You can see last...

Camellia Symphony Celebrates Black History Month

by Liane Curtis | Feb 18, 2019

I hope you are having a great Black History Month!   I know I am, and as part of my celebration I attended the Camellia Symphony Orchestra’s concert, titled Past, Present, and Future. An ambitious and excellent community orchestra in Sacramento, they offered an...