Tag: Julia Wolfe

  • Monday Link Round Up: September 2, 2019

    Monday Link Round Up: September 2, 2019

    Celebrating women’s work in music – today and every day! Happy Labor Day (in the U.S.!) An excellent new Podcast from Listening to Ladies was just released with Elizabeth Blair speaking to Eleanor Alberga.  Don’t miss it! NPR’s All Things Considered reviews the upcoming new release of Julia Wolfe’s latest large scale piece and recording, Fire…

  • Monday Link Round Up: February 4, 2019

    Monday Link Round Up: February 4, 2019

    News and music to start your week! PBS Newshour had the story about the San Fransciso Civic Symphony and their conductor, Jessica Bejarano.  Growing up in an environment that didn’t particularly embrace classical music, Bejarano speaks about the challenges she experienced in receiving her classical music education, and now as a Mexican-American woman conductor in…

  • Monday Link Round Up: January 28, 2018

    Monday Link Round Up: January 28, 2018

    News and music to start your week! It’s always exciting to listen to a new episode of Listening to Ladies! Episode 24 features a conversation with Alondra Vega-Zaldivar, a Canadian composer born in Cuba. Find more information and examples of her work on the LtL website, and listen in through your favorite Podcast app, or stream it…

  • Monday Link Round Up: October 22, 2018

    News and music to start your week! Congratulations to composer Julia Wolfe for being named the Musical America 2019 Composer of the Year!  NewMusicBox has more winners.  And those not familiar with Wolfe can learn more about the composer, and her Pulitzer Prize winning work, at NPR here or listen in below: Quartz at Work…