Tag: MacArthur Fellowship
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Monday Link Round Up: October 12, 2020
News and music to start your week! Congratulations go to Cécile McLorin Salvant, pictured above, the only musician named in the 2020 MacArthur Fellowships (“genius grants”). Salvant is a composer, pianist, and vocalist. Learn more about her work at NewMusicBox. Read about the work being done by British musicians to reform classical music programming to…
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Congratulations to Julia Wolfe
We are thrilled to hear that American composer Julia Wolfe is a 2016 recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant. She is only the third women composer to be awarded in the history of the prize. (The first was Bernice Johnson Reagon, founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock, who won in 1989, and the second was…