Tag: Bard Festival
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Listen to this! Farrenc Symphony n. 3 streams!
We know Louise Farrenc is one of our favorite composers, and one we discuss frequently, but still it is not often that a major US orchestra performs her work AND makes it available in a streaming format! The American Symphony Orchestra, directed by Leon Botstein, performs Farrenc’s Symphony n. 3 in G Minor, Op. 36,…
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Link Round-Up: August 16, 2021
Start your week with our look at the news! The Bard Music Festival transfixed us with its many amazing concerts, focusing on Nadia Boulanger and Her World. And while the live concerts are over, the preconcert lectures remain available, as is this panel discussion (featuring Festival Scholar-in-Residence Dr. Jeanice Brooks.) And we hope some of…
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Monday Link Round Up: June 29, 2020
News and music to start your week! One of the effects of the attention that is finally being paid to the systemic racism that is embedded in our culture is that new attention is being paid to voices that have been omitted from the canon. NPR brought the spotlight to William Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony. Dawson,…