Tag: emilie mayer
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Monday Link Round Up: November 29, 2021
News and music to start your week! NPR featured the life and music of Sofia Gubaidulina, pictured above, on All Things Considered. Gubaidulina just turned 90, and there is a new album revisiting some of her greatest works. Read more at NPR’s website, or listen in below. The Wichita Eagle speaks with conductor Laura Jackson,…
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Monday Link Round Up: September 6, 2021
Music and news to start your week! Violinist Jennifer Koh, pictured above, turned the pandemic – and the silencing of the performing arts industry – into an opportunity to collaborate and create in a new way. She contacted composers and commissioned 40 new works for solo violin. The composers included Tania León, Missy Mazzoli, Angélica…
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The “Female Beethoven” rediscovered in north Germany!
“The Norwegians have their Grieg, The Finns their Sibelius, the Poles have their Chopin. And WE have Emilie Mayer – we just didn’t know it until now!” So proclaimed the northern German Nordkurrier in May 2012, when the Neubrandenburger Philharmonie celebrated the 200th anniversary of Emilie Mayer’s birth. Despite being very prolific and celebrated in her…