Tag: Kaija Saariaho
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Met Opera to stream Kaija Saariaho’s Opera, L’amour de loin on May 6-7
We are happy to report that the Met Opera’s ongoing daily streams (offered in response to their cancelling the remainder of their season because of COVID-19) will feature a work by a woman, Kaija Saariaho’s “L’amour de loin,” on Wed. May 6. Watch it on the Met website or through the Met App. More info…
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Monday Link Round Up: April 13, 2020
News and music to start your week! Another work by Pauline Oliveros, pictured above, is being performed during this time of social distancing (the first being her Tuning Meditation, taking place every Saturday in April). The LA Times has the story of Opera Povera organizing a performance of Oliveros’ The Lunar Opera: Deep Listening For_Tunes, — timed…
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500+ Operas by Women: Perform one today!
[note: latest version of the opera database, March 2022, is here https://wophil.org/500ops/ ] Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy is happy to unveil our newly-updated database of 500+ Operas by Women! We invited Dr. Penny Brandt (one of the two noted scholars who worked on the update) to comment. “Why is nobody performing operas by female composers?” asked…
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Cal State Fullerton Celebrates 18th Annual New Music Festival
With a truly exhilarating range of programming the 18th annual CSU Fullerton New Music Festival offered four days of interaction with influential performers and composers and memorable, cutting-edge concerts, February 19-23. Among the highlights were performances by the student ensembles, including the Wind Ensemble which performed Cindy McTee’s “The Unquestioned Answer.” The CSUF New Music…