Monday Link Round Up: July 12, 2021

Monday Link Round Up: July 12, 2021

News and music to start your week! Composer Ellen Reid, pictured above, is profiled in the San Francisco Classical Voice.  Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for music, Reid is also a sound artist and spoke with SFCV about her work, her background, and collaboration...
Monday Link Round Up: October 26, 2020

Monday Link Round Up: October 26, 2020

News and music to start your week! The New York Times profiles Gabriela Lena Frank (pictured), composer and educator who works to encourage inclusion and representation in the field of classical music.  She hosts an academy on her farm in California, that works with...
Monday Link Round Up: July 20, 2020

Monday Link Round Up: July 20, 2020

News and music to start your week! Nine Black musicians spoke to the New York Times about their experiences, and describe the steps they would like to see being made in transforming the field to being more inclusive.  Hear from Monica Ellis, Thomas Wilkins, Jessie...
Monday Link Round Up: April 22, 2019

Monday Link Round Up: April 22, 2019

News and music to start your week! Congratulations to Ellen Reid on her Pulitzer Prize for p r i s m, an opera she composed with a libretto by Roxie Perkins.  Read more at NPR, read what Alex Ross wrote about the piece in The New Yorker, and learn more about Reid in a...
Monday Link Round Up: February 4, 2019

Monday Link Round Up: February 4, 2019

News and music to start your week! PBS Newshour had the story about the San Fransciso Civic Symphony and their conductor, Jessica Bejarano.  Growing up in an environment that didn’t particularly embrace classical music, Bejarano speaks about the challenges she...