Monday Link Round Up: November 11, 2019

by sarah | Nov 11, 2019

News and music to start your week! Marin Alsop is the new chief conductor of Vienna’s ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra – it’s the first time a woman has been named chief conductor in Austria.  Read on at RTL Today. Tom Huizenga of NPR’s Deceptive...

Monday Link Round Up: October 14, 2019

by sarah | Oct 14, 2019

News and music to start your week! Contemporary Musical Theatre interviews composer Georgia Stitt. The focus is the organization Maestra Music which Stitt founded “to give support, visibility, and community to the women who make the music in the musical theater...

Vivian Perlis Remembered

by Liane Curtis | Aug 2, 2019

By Jennifer DeLapp-Birkett, Ph.D., musicology, [email protected] When Vivian Perlis died last month, the music world lost a respected scholar, a pioneering oral historian, an advocate for American composers and a strong supporter of women in classical music and...

2019-2020 Season: By the Numbers

by sarah | Apr 26, 2019

The 2019-2020 season announcements have been made, so now it’s time to crunch the numbers.  As in years past, we looked at the top 21 orchestras with the highest operating budgets throughout the country to see what, and who, they were playing.*  You can see last...

Monday Link Round Up: April 22, 2019

by sarah | Apr 22, 2019

News and music to start your week! Congratulations to Ellen Reid on her Pulitzer Prize for p r i s m, an opera she composed with a libretto by Roxie Perkins.  Read more at NPR, read what Alex Ross wrote about the piece in The New Yorker, and learn more about Reid in a...