Tag: Grace Williams
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Hidden Herstory – Benjamin Britten and his Female Contemporaries
By Elizabeth de Brito Benjamin Britten may be a great composer, widely considered the fourth ‘B’ after Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. But are you aware of these four extraordinary British composers with whom he associated? Dame Elizabeth Maconchy, Grace Williams, Imogen Holst CBE and Elisabeth Lutyens CBE, were all born within fourteen months of one…
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Monday Link Round Up: August 21, 2017
News to start your week! There are important conversations as a result of Charlottesville happening across disciplines. One thought provoking discussion about the problems with a Eurocentric approach to music history and music theory is made by musicologist Ethen Hein. Read on here. The Library of Congress has announced their 2017-2018 season of concerts –…
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Contemporary Symphonies
The current issue of The New Yorker includes a column by Alex Ross in which he explores the ways in which the symphony has transformed in new music. As one would expect, it covered the most familiar names with only a few surprises (including Gloria Coates who, to date, has written 15 symphonies). Ross saved his more…