Tag: Laura Jackson
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Link-Round-up August 8, 2022
Hope your week is off to a great start! The continuing push for women conductors, and Marin Alsop’s role in supporting more recognition, training and opportunities for women in the field is noted in this review of the “Breaking Barriers” Festival at Chicago’s Ravinia. And also this one. Pictured, Laura Jackson, Jeri Lynne Johnson, and…
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Monday Link Round Up: November 29, 2021
News and music to start your week! NPR featured the life and music of Sofia Gubaidulina, pictured above, on All Things Considered. Gubaidulina just turned 90, and there is a new album revisiting some of her greatest works. Read more at NPR’s website, or listen in below. The Wichita Eagle speaks with conductor Laura Jackson,…
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(Yet Another) Article about Women Conductors
Another addition to the continued conversation about the trials and tribulations or women as conductors in the professional music world appeared in Variety this past week. The piece, written by Anastasia Tsioulcas, is also a contender in the contest for the Poorest Worded Headlines as it announces, “Females Make Inroads into Conducting.” As if the…
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Women Conductors in LA Times
The Los Angeles Times recently printed a substantial article on recent appointments of several women conductors to prestigious orchestras. The piece opens with the recent news surrounding Xian Zhang and her appointment to The Giuseppe Verdi Orchestra in Milan, and the way that some in the media have highlighted her gender in a way that…