Tag: Dame Ethel Smyth
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Monday Link Round Up: December 28, 2020
News and music to start your week! Happy Christmas to all who celebrate! Enjoy this lovely Christmas Prelude for Chamber Orchestra by Vítězslava Kaprálova, pictured above. It was composed in 1939 and broadcast as part of the Paris PTT Radio program “Noël à Prague,” on Dec. 24, 1939, just a few months before the composer’s…
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Ballet set to music of Ethel Smyth (streams Dec. 19 & 20)!
We were excited to learn that Ballet Co. Laboratory’s big holiday production is The Snow Queen, set to music by Dame Ethel Smyth. Artistic Director Zoé Emilie Henrot sat down with Liane Curtis (WPA President) to talk about how she came to use Smyth’s music, including what she listens for in ballet music. Streaming pre-recorded…
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Monday Link Round Up: December 7, 2020
News and music to start your week! Leah Broad writes for The Guardian about the importance in remembering all histories in the retelling of music history. She particularly champions the life of and work of Dame Ethel Smyth, pictured above, throughout her article – but as just one example of the multitude of voices that…
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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,…