News to start your week!
What better way to tackle the new week than a fantastic conversation? Elizabeth Blair speaks with Emily Doolittle in the most recent episode of Listening to Ladies. Learn more at the website, with lots of links and music, stream the episode through your favorite podcast app, or in the player below!
Calls for Participation are open for the 2019 Women Composers Festival of Hartford! There are seeking compositions for the Ensemble-In-Residence, composers & performers for the annual Music Marathon, and presenters & performers for the Women Composers Forum. Learn more at their website – and spread the word!
In a delightful change of programming, and response to national outcry at their predictable and stogy programming, The Philadelphia Orchestra has altered their plans for the 2018-2019 season to include works by two women composers. They will perform the US Premiere of Perspectives by Stacey Brown in November, and Masquerade by Anna Clyne in June. Read more at The Philadelphia Inquirer. The story was also covered by NPR.
Podcaster (and pianist) Kai Talim let us know about his far-ranging conversation with conductor Mei-Ann Chen in a recent episode of Skip the Repeat. We interviewed in Maestro Chen in 2013 when she was busy leading performances of music by Florence Price. Mei-Ann Chen continues to build her conducting career with Asian and European engagements, as well as continuing as Music Director of the Chicago Sinfonietta. But, as she discusses with Kai Talim, her big professional breakthrough was her appointment as Musical Director of the Portland Youth Philharmonic.