News and music to start your week! The San Diego Union-Tribune profiles the life and work of composer Gabriela Lena Frank, pictured above. The article discusses her identities as a disabled woman of color (being of Peruvian, Chinese, and Lithuanian heritage). The...
News and music to start your week! Marin Alsop, pictured above, is preparing to step down from her position at the Baltimore Symphony. She spoke to The Washington Post about her history with the orchestra, the glass ceilings that she broke along the way, and the work...
News and music to start your week! Congratulations go to composer Errollyn Wallen, pictured above, who was named the recipient of the 2020 ISM Distinguished Musician Award. From the website: “Established in 1976, the ISM Distinguished Musician Award recognises...
News and music to start your week! Congratulations to Sherri Chung, pictured above, the first Asian-American woman to compose the music for an hour-long network drama. Listen in to her scores on the new series, “Kung Fu” (a “reimagining of the 1970s...
We start with some BIG NEWS! Dame Ethel Smyth’s “The Prison” has become the first work by a historic woman composer to win a Grammy Award. Smyth: The Prison, with soloists soprano Sarah Brailey and bass-baritone Dashon Burton, and the Experiential...