by Liane Curtis | Apr 18, 2025
It is no secret that we love Amy Beach’s music. After all we sponsor this Amy Beach website and have been diligently working to make sure that all of her music is available in published form. And for a composer who was also a virtuoso pianist, writing a piano...
by Liane Curtis | Apr 3, 2025
Big Happenings with Amy Beach’s music!! The Munich Symphony (Münchner Symphoniker), led by Joseph Bastian, has released a new all-Amy Beach recording, featuring her monumental Symphony op. 32 “Gaelic” and also three world premiere recordings: her concert arias...
by Kathleen McGowan | Mar 17, 2025
On March 13, 2025 composer Sofia Gubaidulina died from cancer at her home in Appen, Germany. She was 93 years old. The composer is best known for her apparently contradictory music style, balancing broad scopes and philosophical ideas with intimate and spiritual...
by Kathleen McGowan | Feb 10, 2025
News to start your week! Marin Alsop and Dalia Stasevska will both make their conducting debuts with the Berlin Philharmonic. Alsop will lead the orchestra from February 20–22, and Stasevska from February 27 – March 1. Alsop’s program will feature four composers...
by Kathleen McGowan | Dec 16, 2024
It’s an exciting time for women in classical music! Here’s this week’s update! Jessica Joy Harned has recently released her theatrical orchestra experience Classical Queens: Our Time, deriving from Harned’s original research...
