Tag: Chicago Sinfonietta
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Music by Florence Price Featured by the Chicago Symphony and Others: A Conversation with Conductor Mei-Ann Chen
Mei-Ann Chen is Music Director of the Memphis Symphony and the Chicago Sinfonietta. Earlier this year she guest-conducted with the San Diego Symphony, and on May 9 she made her subscription debut with the Chicago Symphony. This is four orchestras and their audiences to whom she has introduced the music of Florence Price. A few…
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Making Waves with the Mississippi River Suite: Mei Ann Chen Brings Florence Price’s Music to Chicago Symphony
Acclaimed conductor Mei-Ann Chen is just completing her first year as Music Director of the Chicago Sinfonietta. And Thursday she made her debut as a guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra‘s subscription series. She made quite a “splash” with Florence Price’s Mississippi River Suite—the press has been filled with praise for the inspired leadership she brings to this…
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Florence Price and the Chicago Symphony Are Reunited—by Mei-Ann Chen
On the cusp of Black and Women’s History Months, we’re celebrating that 80 years after her orchestral debut Florence Beatrice Price is currently making a comeback on the concert stage—thanks in no small part to conductor Mei-Ann Chen. Chen, maestro of both the Memphis Symphony and the Chicago Sinfonietta performed Price’s The Oak as part…
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More on Chicago Sinfonetta and Women Conductors
John von Rhein of The Chicago Tribune recently reported on the passing of the baton from Paul Freeman to Mei-Ann Chen, which I first discussed here. Of the significance of Chen’s placement, von Rhein said: The emergence of women conductors in the symphonic mainstream over the last several decades has been no less historic a…