Monday Link Round Up: December 5, 2016

News to start your week! On December 1 the Met Opera performed  L’Amour de Loin by Kaija Saariaho.  This historic Met premiere marked only the second time a work by a woman composer has been heard at the institution – the last being over a century ago....

Monday Link Round Up: November 28, 2016

News to start your week! First, some very sad news of the death of a pioneer.  Pauline Oliveros has passed at age 84.  There are many remembrances and tributes.   The Guardian has a remembrance, Alex Ross invites readers to listen in, and NPR included a story about...

Monday Link Round Up: October 24, 2016

News to start your week!   In another follow up to the performance of works by Saariaho by the New York Phil, read the review by Alex Ross in the October 31 issue of The New Yorker.  The full article is available online here.   Cellist Evangeline Benedetti...

Monday Link Round Up: October 17, 2016

News to start your week! The third episode of the Listening to Ladies podcast is live!  Listen here to a conversation with composer and sound artist Anna Höstman. The New York Philharmonic performed a new work by Kaija Saariaho at the Park Avenue Armory this past...
Followup on our 2016-17 Repertoire Report

Followup on our 2016-17 Repertoire Report

 We’ve had pushback on some of the information in our blog post on the 2016-2017 orchestral repertoire of the top 21 U.S. orchestras.  A statement by musicologist and writer Steve Ledbetter (on his Facebook page), that these 14 orchestras “have totally turned...