Tag: Ellen Reid
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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 conversation…
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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 experienced in receiving her classical music education, and now as a Mexican-American woman conductor in…
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Monday Link Round Up: June 25, 2018
News and music to start your week! We were very excited to hear a story on NPR’s All Things Considered about the lack of women’s music heard at the symphony. The piece explores the current statistics in conversation with Grammy and Pulitzer Prize winning composer Jennifer Higdon. Listen below – and read WPA President Liane…