Tag: Library of Congress

  • Monday Link Round Up: March 25, 2019

    Monday Link Round Up: March 25, 2019

    News and music to start your week! Did you read all of our reports from the Society for American Music conference in New Orleans?  You can catch up on Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3! The Boston Globe has a great piece on the efforts by conductor Thomas Wilkins to diversify the Boston Symphony…

  • Monday Link Round Up: October 9, 2017

    News to start your week!   Cuban composer Tania León is writing an opera about the Little Rock Nine – the first African American students to integrate Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas in 1957.  NBC News included a story on the coming opera September 25, before the work was presented in previews.  The New…

  • Monday Link Round Up: August 21, 2017

    News to start your week! There are important conversations as a result of Charlottesville happening across disciplines.  One thought provoking discussion about the problems with a Eurocentric approach to music history and music theory is made by musicologist Ethen Hein.  Read on here. The Library of Congress has announced their 2017-2018 season of concerts –…

  • Monday Link Round Up: September 12, 2016

    News to start your week! The Library of Congress blog, In the Muse, has a guest post by Kate Doyle, a doctoral candidate specializing in experimental composition and sound for performance art at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.  Doyle focused this past summer sorting and organizing the music commissioned for Erick Hawkins and his…