Tag: Library of Congress
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Saariaho Premiere at Library of Congress
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 piano. For those of us who aren’t able to attend in person, program notes for…
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Featured Guest Blog: Louise Talma (Part II!)
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 and music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; music and screen history, and music…
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Featured Guest Blog: Discovering Louise Talma’s First Orchestral Works
Featured Guest Blogger: Kendra Preston Leonard We are happy to be launching a new series of guest bloggers. Leonard’s book Louise Talma: A Life in Composition (Ashgate) was published last year and caught our attention, so we are honored to have her as our first “FGB.” A musicologist whose work focuses on women and music in the twentieth and…
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Grime and Hensel at the Library of Congress
The next free concert hosted in the Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress is this Friday, February 20. The Claremont Trio will perform Helen Grime’s Three Whistler Miniatures, which the ensemble commissioned in 2012, as well as Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s Piano Trio in D minor. There will be a pre-concert lecture by the artists, which I…