News to start your week: Elizabeth Blair – herself a composer, activist, and writer – has a fantastic interview with composer Lisa Coons available to read now at VAN Magazine. Frank Oteri at New Music Box has an interview with American composer Eleanor...
News to start your week! Eleanor Sokoloff, piano teacher at the Curtis Institute, is celebrating her 102nd birthday. She has taught at the institution since 1936. The Philadelphia Inquirer has a profile. There’s a new festival celebrating the work of...
News to start your week! Continuing the conversation about women an opera that began last week with the announcement that Saariaho’s work will be heard next season (and is only the second work by a woman to ever be performed), Shawn Milnes of The Daily Beast...
News to start your week! Singer and doctoral candidate Catherine Gardner is conducting research on the effects of pregnancy on singers. Take part in her research by responding to her (anonymous) survey available on her website. On an Overgrown Path reminded...
News to start your week! We can look forward to an excellent Ojai Festival in 2016 with music director Peter Sellars who announced that the festival will feature works by Kaija Saariaho, Caroline Shaw, Pauline Oliveros, Carla Kihlstedt, Sharon Hurvitz, and Tania León....
