Tag: Hilary Hahn
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Monday Link Round Up: April 15, 2019
News and music to start your week! Sorry to be late with our update, we’re just back from Minneapolis, where huge things are happening at the Minnesota Orchestra with Maestro Sarah Hicks! A few weeks ago, the hip-hop artist Dessa live-recorded an album with the orchestra, a first for a hip-hop artists and a major…
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Monday Link Round Up: October 31, 2016
News to start your week! In honor of Halloween, take a few minutes to read about Elizabeth Lutyens – an English composer who worked in serialism, but who is perhaps most famous for the dozens of film scores she wrote for horror films! Read more here. The New York Times has a conversation with conductor…
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Grammy Nominations for Anna Clyne and Hilary Hahn
The list of 2015 Grammy nominations has been published – and Anna Clyne’s Prince of Clouds is in the running for Contemporary Classical Composition. Her work shares the ballot with John Luther Adams (Become Ocean), George Crumb (Voices From The Heartland), Stephen Paulus (Concerto For Two Trumpets & Band), and Roberto Sierra (Sinfonia No. 4). Have a listen to the…
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The Long, LONG Arc of History
With the debut of Margaret Ruthven Lang’s Dramatic Overture in 1893, the world changed: never before had an orchestral work composed by a woman been performed on the American stage. The intervening 119 years have brought monumental social change, much of it due to the ever-increasing participation of women in all aspects of society. But…