Tag: LA Philharmonic
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Monday Link Round Up: November 18, 2019
News and music to start your week! Congratulations to composer Gabriela Ortiz for her recent premiere with the LA Philharmonic. Her Yanga for orchestra and choir, was commissioned by the LA Phil. Learn more at NPR or listen in below. Congratulations are also owed to Professor Josephine Wright (pictured above), who teaches at The College of…
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Followup on our 2016-17 Repertoire Report
We’ve had pushback on some of the information in our blog post on the 2016-2017 orchestral repertoire of the top 21 U.S. orchestras. A statement by musicologist and writer Steve Ledbetter (on his Facebook page), that these 14 orchestras “have totally turned their backs on women composers” is not 100% correct (but pretty close!) So…
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News Round Up
Here are some headlines worth paying attention to: Though the LA Philharmonic didn’t promote Saariaho’s world premiere, it received an excellent review in the LA Times: The performance was strong. Dudamel remained constantly attuned to Saariaho’s vastly changeable instrumental colors, a cosmic sonic background for Finley, who handled each song with operatic intensity, part of a…