Tag: Eimear Noone
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Monday Link Round Up: January 25, 2021
News and music to start your week! Celebrations are underway (to the extent possible given the pandemic) for the centennial birthday of pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams, pictured above. She is featured in a story on NPR by reporter Lara Pellegrinelli. Read the text or listen in to the six minute story here. Pellegrinelli…
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Monday Link Round Up: October 12, 2020
News and music to start your week! Congratulations go to Cécile McLorin Salvant, pictured above, the only musician named in the 2020 MacArthur Fellowships (“genius grants”). Salvant is a composer, pianist, and vocalist. Learn more about her work at NewMusicBox. Read about the work being done by British musicians to reform classical music programming to…
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Monday Link Round Up: February 17, 2020
News and music to start your week! Huge congratulations to Hildur Guðnadóttir, pictured above, the first woman to ever win an Oscar for a dramatic score. Now learn more about her, and listen in to more works! Pitchfork offers a great place to start! The Seattle Opera appointed what is believed to be the country’s…
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Monday Link Round Up: January 27, 2020
Music and news to start your week! For the first time ever, the orchestra of the Academy Awards Ceremony (the Oscars, Feb. 9) will be led by a woman. Congratulations go to Irish conductor Eímear Noone, pictured above, who will lead excerpts from the films nominated for Best Music (Original Score). Noone herself is both…