Tag: Maria Schneider
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Monday Link Round Up: July 27, 2020
News and music to start your week! Calling young women composers! Pamela Z, pictured above, will be presenting on her compositional process TODAY, July 27 at 5pm EST, in a free presentation on the Young Women Composers workshop series. Gabriela Lena Frank will be presenting on July 30! Register for the zoom call here, where…
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Monday Link Round Up: June 8
Some top stories from over the weekend: We wrote about Judith Weir’s new song cycle last week, which premiered on Saturday. The Guardian and The Telegraph each have reviews of the work which was decidedly well received. You can also read a review of a new album of Weir’s choral music, titled Storm. The Dallas Opera’s…
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Schneider Crosses Over to Classical–and Wins a Grammy
Maria Schneider has a knack for choosing to work in musical genres where women have traditionally been least represented and recognized—and then flipping the script to win all kinds of renown and accolade. As a jazz composer and big-band leader, Schneider has been voted Best Composer and Best Arranger for an unprecedented eight consecutive years…
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Maria Schneider and Spring for Music
I’m late in posting this, but the Spring For Music series (which I mentioned earlier), teamed with NPR to make the performance the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra available to stream online. One of the pieces heard in this performance is a relatively newly commissioned work – requested from Maria Schneider (known primarily, if not exclusively…