Tag: Dallas Opera Institute for Women Conductors
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Monday Link Round Up: November 27, 2017
News to start your week! In case you missed it – conductor Mariss Jansons made news by saying that women conductors were “not [his] cup of tea“. After some significant backlash he later apologized. At the same time, the Dallas Opera’s Linda and Mitch Hart Institute for Women Conductors met again for…
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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: July 3, 2017
News to start your week! We mentioned the new opera, Vireo, by Lisa Bielawa being released online the other week. The episodic serial work will be released online and on KCET – and episode 1 is now available to view online! The Hart Institute for Women Conductors through the Dallas Opera Company has announced the next…
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Monday Link Round Up: March 13, 2017
News to start your week! In line with the conversations that have been taking place in honor of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, The Guardian has a fantastic op-ed by Susanna Eastburn, head of Scotland’s Sound and Music, about why women are worthy of inclusion. She argues, it’s not about Tokenism – it’s about Talent. Read on…