Tag: BBC
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WPA News Digest — October 21, 2024
We’re here for another exciting week!! On Saturday October 26, the woman-founded Turkish American Orchestra (TAO) will give its debut performance in New York’s Symphony Space under the direction Nisan Ak. Cofounded by Ak and technology executive Ulku Rowe, the orchestra promotes Western classical music by Turkish composers, Turkish classical music, and Turkish contemporary music in…
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BBC Announces ‘New Strategy’ and Closes the BBC Singers
Dr. Amy Zigler (a musicologist and pianist and serves as Associate Professor of Music at Salem College) recently wrote about attending a recording session in the U.K. Today she has an update about a devastating piece of news from the British cultural landscape. UPDATE: Responding to public outcry, the BBC has cancelled its decision to…
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Smyth’s Der Wald in forthcoming recording!
By Dr. Amy Zigler, an Ethel Smyth scholar and Associate Professor of Music at Salem College. She will be speaking about the recording, the female characters, and issues of agency in Der Wald at the Operatic Feminisms symposium on March 25, 2023, at Columbia University. Event info here. On January 10-12, 2023, I had…
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Link Round Up: January 25, 2022
Here’s some news for this week! Juilliard Focus Festival 2022, The Making of an American Music, 1899-1948 is taking place this week with much of it streaming. The January 28 concluding orchestral concert will be conducted by Mei Ann Chen, and features Melissa White as soloist in Florence Price’s Violin Concerto n. 1! . Musicologist…