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...
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...
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...
The Internet (or, at least, the classical music enthusiast part of the Internet) was a-buzz on Friday with the surprise announcement by Alan Gilbert. After a eight years at the helm, Gilbert will be leaving the New York Philharmonic. And among all of the gasps of...
