by sarah | Mar 3, 2016
March is Women’s History Month – and while we think that every month is good time to include women’s work in concert program, it’s a particularly appropriate time to reflect on women’s work and impact through time. There are several...
by sarah | Feb 1, 2016
Some news to start your week! Philip Kennicott, art critic for The Washington Post, contributed to this month’s Opera News to discuss the ways in which topics of gender and race are handled – or not – in current opera productions. This comes after...
by sarah | Nov 2, 2015
Catch up on the news from the weekend: The Guardian asked composer Anna Clyne (among others) to put together a Classical Music for Beginners list. She includes works by Kaija Saariaho and Caroline Shaw – read, and listen, here. NPR did a great piece on the life...
by sarah | Oct 8, 2015
The 2015-2016 concert season is now underway for ensembles across the United States – which means it’s also time to take a look at the orchestral repertoire that is being performed. As we wait for the official repertoire reports from the League of American...
by sarah | Aug 5, 2015
NPR’s Morning Edition covered Jennifer Higdon’s new opera, Cold Mountain. The work, which has been in development for over two years, premiered last weekend to a sold out audience in Santa Fe. It will be heard in Philadelphia later this year. Paul Ingles...
