News to start your week!
Today is the last day to donate to our Generosity.com campaign! Please give what you can and help make the campaign as impactful as possible in funding grants to ensembles who wish to play more diverse repertoire! Learn more below, and give here!
Don’t miss the sixth episode of Listening to Ladies podcast, featuring a conversation with Lainie Fefferman. Learn more at the website – or download and subscribe through iTunes!
The RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin has named Nathalie Stutzmann as Principal Guest Conductor beginning next season. Stutzmann first made her mark as a contralto, but has turned her focus to conducting in recent years, including a performance with the Philadelphia Orchestra in December. Read the official press release here, and learn more about Stutzmann on her official website.
The Minnesota Star Tribune speaks with the associate conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra, Roderick Cox, and his passion to create more diverse audiences for classical music events. It is an important topic, and one that deserves more attention. Not only do audiences need to see more diversity represented in the musicians on stage, but also in the music that is being programmed.
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