Tag: Joan Tower
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Monday Link Round Up: January 18, 2021
News and music to start your week! We in the United States are greatly anticipating Wednesday, January 20, which is inauguration day. Though Washington D.C. will be missing the parades and festivities that are typically associated with the event, we can look forward to a performance of Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man and Joan…
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Monday Link Round Up: August 10, 2020
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, was 96 and tragically died fighting COVID-19. Read more at NPR about…
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Joan Tower & Tania Léon in Conversation at LAO
By Chris A. Trotman, WPA’s Director of Music Publications. Thank you to composer Dosia McKay (@dosiamckay) for sharing her photo of the event (Tower, left, and Léon) During the 2019 League of American Orchestras Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, I had the privilege of attending a discussion and Q/A session with composer-conductor-pianist-educators Joan Tower and Tania…
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Joan Tower Honored by League of American Orchestras
Congratulations to Joan Tower who will be awarded the Golden Baton at this year’s League of American Orchestras Conference in Nashville, TN (June 3-5)! The Golden Baton is organization’s highest honor. One of Tower’s most well known works, Made in America, was commissioned by a consortium of 65 orchestras throughout the country through the League of…