Tag: Fiona Maddocks
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Monday Link Round Up: January 20, 2020
News and Music to start your week! Wishing everyone a meaningful and reflective Martin Luther King, Jr. Day! Celebrate by listing in to DiscoverClassical.com which features a day of music programming by Black composers – including works by Florence Price and Margaret Bonds. The Los Angeles Times talks about the legacy of George Walker (pictured)…
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Monday Link Round Up: December 11, 2017
News to start your week! The music of Amy Beach was performed at the Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony! The second movement of Beach’s Symphony was performed by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Joana Carneiro. Read more about it at the Boston Music Intelligencer. The video of the ceremony is up on…
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Monday Link Round Up: August 28, 2017
News to start your week! WQXR had a blog post this week highlighting historical figures who also wrote music. Included in their list is Catherine the Great – though she was a librettist, not a composer. What a shame to not include at least a few other female historical figures who composed, like: Anne Boleyn;…