Tag: Libby Larsen
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WPA News Digest – December 9, 2024
There’s lots to celebrate as we prepare for the winter holidays! Videmus Inc., via a new arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, is publishing editions of composer Julia Perry‘s previously-unpublished music. The Estate of Julia A. Perry (which had to be established as a legal entity) assigned copyrights for her unpublished work to Videmus Inc. in…
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Monday Link Round Up: September 6, 2021
Music and news to start your week! Violinist Jennifer Koh, pictured above, turned the pandemic – and the silencing of the performing arts industry – into an opportunity to collaborate and create in a new way. She contacted composers and commissioned 40 new works for solo violin. The composers included Tania León, Missy Mazzoli, Angélica…
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Monday Link Round Up: January 11, 2021
News and music to start your week! Opera Wire profiles composer Thea Musgrave, pictured above, who has led an extraordinary and prolific career. David Salazar’s essay includes several examples of her works throughout her career. Happy Birthday to composer Libby Larsen who turned 70 on Christmas Eve! She speaks to the Minnesota Star Tribune about…
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Libby Larsen Opera in Staged Reading, Oct. 31
Libby Larsen’s “Barnum’s Bird,” a chamber opera about Jenny Lind, the superstar soprano “Swedish nightingale” and P.T. Barnum, who launched her on a 150-performance U.S. tour, will receive a staged reading at Circle in the Square Theatre in New York City on Thurs. Oct. 31. Larsen describes her work as a means to ponder our…