Tag: Anne Midgette

  • Monday Link Round Up: July 30, 2018

    News and music to start your week! A fascinating article by composer Jenny Giering who compares her own experiences with visions she experienced with migraines and the visions described by Abbess Hildegard von Bingen as she received music and instruction.  It is featured in a series discussing disability in The New York Times. Irish composer Siobhán…

  • Monday Link Round Up: February 19, 2018

    News to start your week! As more and more ensembles are releasing their 2018-2019 season programming it’s been great to read the responses, and calls for change, coming from social media from patrons, academics, and professionals.  Don’t miss reading Anne Midgette’s “The Trouble with Opera” in The Washington Post.  We would buy season tickets for…

  • Monday Link Round Up: December 11, 2017

    News to start your week! The music of Amy Beach was performed at the Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony!  The second movement of Beach’s Symphony was performed by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Joana Carneiro.  Read more about it at the Boston Music Intelligencer.  The video of the ceremony is up on…

  • Monday Link Round Up: November 13, 2017

    Monday Link Round Up: November 13, 2017

    News to start your week! Michael Tilson Thomas has announced that he will be retiring from the San Francisco Symphony.  The San Francisco Chronicle considers who should be given the post – and the importance of having a music director who values the works of women and people of color.   Perhaps the search committee…