Tag: Marin Alsop
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Monday Link Round Up March 15, 2021
We start with some BIG NEWS! Dame Ethel Smyth’s “The Prison” has become the first work by a historic woman composer to win a Grammy Award. Smyth: The Prison, with soloists soprano Sarah Brailey and bass-baritone Dashon Burton, and the Experiential Orchestra and Chorus directed by James Blachly, won in the Best Classical Solo Vocal…
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Monday Link Round Up: January 18, 2021
News and music to start your week! We in the United States are greatly anticipating Wednesday, January 20, which is inauguration day. Though Washington D.C. will be missing the parades and festivities that are typically associated with the event, we can look forward to a performance of Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man and Joan…
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Monday Link Round Up: April 20, 2020
News and music to start your week! The Digital Festival of Women in Music ( German version, Feminale der Musik) continues TODAY (April 20) with live interviews about Ethel Smyth (with Marleen Hoffmann) and Rebecca Clarke (with WPA President Liane Curtis, in English 🙂 German time, 20:00, 2 pm US East Coast time, 11 AM…
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Monday Link Round Up: March 2, 2020
News and music to start your week! The Baltimore Sun reports that next season at The Baltimore Symphony will be the last for conductor Marin Alsop, pictured above. She has served as the conductor and artistic leader of the ensemble for 14 years. Opera Philadelphia has announced that they will open the 2020-2021 season with…