News and music to start your week! I can think of no better way to start a new week than with a new episode of Listening to Ladies! In this latest episode Elizabeth Blair discusses composition with Reena Esmail. Listen below – but find even more links and...
News and music to start your week! WFAE spoke to Nkieru Okoye who was commissioned to compose a new work for The Charlotte Symphony to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the city’s founding! Read the interview, or listen in at the WFAE website. Huge news from...
Now that Labor Day, and the end of summer, has passed we are looking forward to the start of the 2017-18 concert season – and taking a critical look at what we can expect in the coming programming. We at WPA have been looking at the repertoire of major ensembles...
News to start your week! ICYMI, Philip Clark shared his thoughts in The Guardian in a blog post titled “Where have the great composers gone?” His thesis is, essentially, that contemporary music doesn’t compare to composers like Britten, Tippet,...
It can be hard to look past the stories of those composers who faced obstacles in their art at the hands of their own parents. There are some famous stories – from Germaine Tailleferre, who changed her name to break ties with her father, and Ethel Smyth, who...
