I am always delighted to stumble upon the name of a historic woman composer in the daily news—and kudos to NPR for making my day! Their classical music blog, Deceptive Cadence, highlighted new recordings of works by composer Florence Price —the first African American...
Two performances this past weekend, titled “Treasures Beloved and Unknown,” exposed audiences of the North State Symphony in Chico and Redding, California to the work of Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979). The piece performed was Clarke’s most remembered composition, the...
I had been trying to put together some thoughts about the way women who perform classical music are viewed/described by the media, long before Yuja Wang made her controversial Hollywood Bowl appearance. And after sifting through dozens of articles and critiques, I...
Today the blog for the National Museum of Women in the Arts posted an interview with pianist Sofja Gübadomova as a precursor to a performance that Gübadomova will be giving at NMWA tonight at 7:30. When asked, “What’s your best advice to girls who are considering a...
Born in Caracas in 1853, Teresa Carreño was fortunate to be born into a musical family and receive instruction from Louis Moreau Gottschalk and Anton Rubinstein, fostering her talent as a young piano prodigy, and later as a singer, as well as a composer and conductor....
Though the news is a bit dated now, it is still worth noting that Joanna MacGregor was recently appointed the new head of piano at the Royal Academy of Music. She will take her post in September 2011, replacing Christopher Elton, MacGregor’s former teacher, who has...
