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...
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...
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...
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...
Lots of news to start your week! Anne Midgette has an important piece in The Washington Post about the difficulties women composers continue to face in having their works heard, and new commissions awarded. (There is funding out there, major orchestras just...
