Tag: Kaija Saariaho
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Monday Link Round Up: Jan. 14, 2019
News to start your week! BachTrack has their 2018 year round up – with some promising and exciting results for women composers and conductors! See the data for yourself at BachTrack. The New York Times has an important piece about just how underrepresented women are in film music. Though there is no lack of women…
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2017-18 Season: By the Numbers
Now that Labor Day, and the end of summer, has passed we are looking forward to the start of the 2017-18 concert season – and taking a critical look at what we can expect in the coming programming. We at WPA have been looking at the repertoire of major ensembles for a long time, and…
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Podcast Episode 02: “It’s about friggin’ time!” — Met Opera performs work composed by a woman
Happy New Year! Without a doubt, one of 2016’s most exciting music events was the performance of Kaija Saariaho’s “L’Amour de Loin” at New York’s Metropolitan Opera. Our very first podcast offered some insiders’ ideas about the production. Now, in our second podcast, composer Milica Paranosic goes “on the scene” at Lincoln Center (at the…
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Podcast Episode 01: The Significance of “L’Amour de Loin”
In our first ever Podcast, journalist Naomi Lewin and opera dramaturg Cori Ellison discuss the Met’s production of Kaija Saariaho‘s 2000 opera “L’Amour de Loin.” Naomi Lewin has produced the podcast, which includes interview clips with the composer, as well as the conductor Susanna Mälkki. We also hear audio clips from the opera, and…