News and music to start the week! Learn about Kathleen Riddick, a British conductor who has been unjustly forgotten. Riddick (pictured above) pioneered the way for future women to take the podium. The Isle of Wight County Press profiles the conductor, who lived from...
News and music to start your week! We are saddened to hear about the death of Helen Jones Woods – a trombonist who performed with the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, an interracial all-female Big Band that toured widely during WWII. Jones, pictured above,...
News and music to start your week! Congratulations to Ellen Reid on her Pulitzer Prize for p r i s m, an opera she composed with a libretto by Roxie Perkins. Read more at NPR, read what Alex Ross wrote about the piece in The New Yorker, and learn more about Reid in a...
