Tag: Jennifer Higdon
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Monday Link Round Up: September 21, 2020
News and music to start your week! We are mourning the loss of Ruth Bader Ginsburg – one of the greatest legal minds and champions for equality in American history. Let us remember her life and work, and recommit to carry on in the fight for equality and democracy in her honor. We can recall…
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Monday Link Round Up: August 24, 2020
News and music to start your week! The Philadelphia Orchestra joins in the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the passing of the 19th amendment in the US. In a special conversation taking place on August 26, First Associate Concertmaster Juliette Kang, Composer In Residence Gabriela Lena Frank, soprano Angel Blue (pictured above), and Jennifer…
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Monday Link Round Up: March 2, 2020
News and music to start your week! The Baltimore Sun reports that next season at The Baltimore Symphony will be the last for conductor Marin Alsop, pictured above. She has served as the conductor and artistic leader of the ensemble for 14 years. Opera Philadelphia has announced that they will open the 2020-2021 season with…
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TBT — The Women’s Phil as an American Orchestra (1999)
An article published by New Music Box on Sept. 1, 1999, celebrates The Women’s Philharmonic as one of twenty orchestras that are making a special commitment to new American music. Author Andrew Druckenbrod notes that TWP … has commissioned 35 works since its first concert in 1981, the preponderance of which are by American composers.…