Tag: Anne Midgette
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Monday Link Round Up: November 6, 2017
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 aren’t interested in using it.) Read online here. Ryan Ebright of The New York…
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Monday Link Round Up: August 7, 2017
News to start the week! Anne Midgette of The Washington Post has responded to NPR’s list of top 150 albums by women and compiled a list of the top 35 women composers. It’s hard to argue with any of her choices, though the list is rather biased on contemporary voices. Read the list here. WQXR…
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Monday Link Round Up: October 31, 2016
News to start your week! In honor of Halloween, take a few minutes to read about Elizabeth Lutyens – an English composer who worked in serialism, but who is perhaps most famous for the dozens of film scores she wrote for horror films! Read more here. The New York Times has a conversation with conductor…
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Monday Link Roundup: September 26, 2016
News to start your week! A new opera by Missy Mazzoli premiered in Philadelphia this past weekend. The work, Breaking the Waves, is based on a film by the same name Lars von Trier film. Mazzoli spoke to NPR’s morning edition this past weekend. Read the conversation online, or listen below: The Guardian has a review of…