Tag: Inclusiveness
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Monday Link Round Up: December 20, 2021
News and music to start your week! The New York Times recapped the rather challenging year in classical music – including awarding Kaija Saariaho (pictured) The Composer of the Year. Other highlights include building a more diverse repertoire, firsts at the Met, and more. Don’t miss an excellent piece by musicologist Dr. Douglas Shadle about…
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Monday Link Round Up: August 3, 2020
News and music to start your week! Congratulations go to Rhiannon Giddens – a trained opera singer, virtuoso fiddler and banjo player, founding member of The Carolina Chocolate Drops, MacArthur Genius grant winner, and composer who is pictured above. Giddens was just announced to be the artistic director of Silkroad, the cross-cultural music organization founded…
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Monday Link Round Up: August 20, 2018
News and music to start your week! The Philadelphia Orchestra is collaborating with American Composers Orchestra to offer a closed reading session for six up-and-coming women composers. Though not open to the public, the ensemble will perform and critique each work with the composer and administration from other ensembles in an effort to have more…