Launching 32 Composers You Need to Know, with Florence Price!

by Liane Curtis | Feb 27, 2014

We are kicking off our Indiegogo campaign with a daily blog series: 32 Composers You Need to Know! This is in honor of Women’s History Month (which is a federally observed celebration; here is last year’s Presidential declaration). But of course it is...

Music by Florence Price Featured by the Chicago Symphony and Others: A Conversation with Conductor Mei-Ann Chen

by Liane Curtis | May 13, 2013

Mei-Ann Chen is Music Director of the Memphis Symphony and the Chicago Sinfonietta.  Earlier this year she guest-conducted with the San Diego Symphony, and on May 9 she made her subscription debut with the Chicago Symphony.  This is four orchestras and their audiences...

Making Waves with the Mississippi River Suite: Mei Ann Chen Brings Florence Price’s Music to Chicago Symphony

by Liane Curtis | May 11, 2013

Acclaimed conductor Mei-Ann Chen is just completing her first year as Music Director of the Chicago Sinfonietta.  And Thursday she made her debut as a guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s subscription series.  She made quite a...

Must-Listen Radio: WQXR’s Price of Admission

by SMBrown | Mar 13, 2013

Offering the perfect coda to our recent posts on Florence Price and Margaret Bonds, WQXR’s just-produced radio documentary The Price of Admission devotes a full hour to the life and music of Price. Hosted by former Morehouse professor of music Terrance McKnight,...

Honoring Margaret Bonds

by sarah | Mar 11, 2013

I was thrilled to hear NPR reporting on a woman composer on All Things Considered recently. Celeste Headlee spoke with Louise Toppin, opera singer and voice professor at the University of North Carolina, on the life and work of Margaret Bonds. Bonds, who died in 1972,...