Tag: Alex Ross

  • Monday Link Round Up: May 25, 2020

    Monday Link Round Up: May 25, 2020

    News and music to start your week! The New York Times introduced readers this week to the Iranian Female Composers Association, members of which are included above (from left: Anahita Abbasi, Aida Shirazi, and Niloufar Nourbakhsh).  Learn about this wonderful organization and listen in to the fabulous music being created. The San Francisco Classical Voice…

  • Monday Link Round Up: May 4, 2020

    Monday Link Round Up: May 4, 2020

    News and music to start your week! The Washington Post has more about music being created during the current crisis – including more about Lisa Bielawa’s Broadcast from Home, the fourth installment was released this past week.  Bielawa, pictured above, is an American composer based in New York City, and her awards include the Prix…

  • Monday Link Round Up: March 30, 2020

    Monday Link Round Up: March 30, 2020

    News and music to start your week! Congratulations go to composer and flautist Valerie Coleman, pictured, who was named 2020 Classical Woman of the Year by Performance Today.  Read more at Broadway World. Alex Ross writes at his blog, The Rest is Noise, about the upcoming performance of Kate Soper’s opera The Romance of the Rose,…

  • Monday Link Round Up: January 6, 2020

    Monday Link Round Up: January 6, 2020

    News and music to start your week! What better way to start off the new year than with Musicology Duck’s Listen Wider Challenge!  The goal is to encourage music enthusiasts to move out of their comfort zone and expand their playlists to include a wider variety of works, composers, styles, and representation.  A wonderful reminder…