Last fall Hilary Hahn premiered Jennifer Higdon’s Violin Concerto, which was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2010. Hahn’s recording of the work, which she made with Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic) is scheduled for release on September 21. However,...
The Baltimore Sun just announced that Marin Alsop’s contract with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has been extended until “at least” 2015! The article, linked here, expresses the excitement that conductor and musicians felt at the development. Perhaps a quote from...
In the research that I have done about the performance of works by women composers in major American symphonies, what is only slightly more surprising than the prevalence of works written by dead, white, men is the number of solo pieces that are performed during a...
