by Liane Curtis | Sep 5, 2014
Today, Sept. 5, let’s celebrate Amy Beach’s birthday! She was a great composer of many firsts: the first American women to have a Symphony performed by a major orchestra (her “Gaelic” in 1896; her piano concerto of 1900 was another...
by Liane Curtis | Mar 26, 2014
The second concert (Mar. 25) of the Eastman Women In Music Festival (the Festival includes several venues that are near Eastman, but not part of Eastman): The Kaplan Duo delighted us with their noon hour recital at Nazareth College. I’ve known the pianist Nanette...
by Liane Curtis | Mar 15, 2013
We know of two performances of Beach’s major works with orchestra that are taking place this weekend. The Waltham (MA) Philharmonic is performing Beach’s Gaelic Symphony on Saturday night. Info here. Her Mass (1890) is being performed in Saratoga Springs,...
by SMBrown | Mar 13, 2013
Offering the perfect coda to our recent posts on Florence Price and Margaret Bonds, WQXR’s just-produced radio documentary The Price of Admission devotes a full hour to the life and music of Price. Hosted by former Morehouse professor of music Terrance McKnight,...
by Liane Curtis | Nov 16, 2012
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in area premiere of rare, remarkable Concerto. [update added at end after hearing second performance] Amy Beach was 33 years old when she gave the premiere performance of her own Piano Concerto (op. 45 in C-Sharp Minor) in April 1900....
