Tag: Gemma New
-
Year-End Reflections from Elizabeth de Brito
By Elizabeth de Brito Phew, what a year it’s been! This time last year COVID still hung firmly over our festivities but this year the party is back on! I think it’s fair to say we’ve all enjoyed returning to some semblance of normality, with live music gradually returning for good across the world and…
-
Happy International Women’s Day! And Link Round-Up!
Happy Women’s History Month and (tomorrow) International Women’s Day! We are thrilled to unveil our newly updated and expanded database “500 Operas by Women”!! Last week we scolded the Met Opera for their continued denial of women’s creativity as composers. So here is our reply: HUNDREDS of operas from every era and a wide span…
-
Monday Link Round Up: October 22, 2018
News and music to start your week! Congratulations to composer Julia Wolfe for being named the Musical America 2019 Composer of the Year! NewMusicBox has more winners. And those not familiar with Wolfe can learn more about the composer, and her Pulitzer Prize winning work, at NPR here or listen in below: Quartz at Work…
-
Monday Link Round Up: June 6, 2016
News to start your week! One of the famous stories of music history is the way in which Bach’s music fell into obscurity after his death to be rediscovered later by Felix Mendelssohn. I’ve just been made aware of the work of Bach scholar Christoph Wolff who asserts that it was Mendelssohn’s aunt, Sara Levy,…