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...
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...
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...
Kaija Saariaho has another new work being premiered this week. The Library of Congress has co-commissioned Light and Matter, a new work for piano trio, which will be premiered Friday, May 22. The same concert will also hear Saariaho’s Aure for violin and...
Featured Guest Blogger: Kendra Preston Leonard Today we feature the second installment in our Featured Guest Blogger series, again focusing on the work of Kendra Preston Leonard and her new book on Lousie Talma. Leonard is a musicologist whose work focuses on women...
