Monday Link Round Up: February 1, 2016

by | Feb 1, 2016

Some news to start your week! Philip Kennicott, art critic for The Washington Post, contributed to this month’s Opera News to discuss the ways in which topics of gender and race are handled – or not – in current opera productions.  This comes after...

Marion Bauer: Educator and Composer

by | Mar 9, 2014

Marion Bauer (1882-1955) was born in Washington state the youngest of seven children to working class immigrant parents.  But even though resources were limited, the Bauers supported their daughter’s musical aptitude. Though she studied extensively, including...

Marion Bauer

by | Mar 30, 2011

Marion Bauer (1882-1955) was born in Walla Walla, Washington to immigrant French Jewish parents. She studied piano from a young age, later refining her talent in piano and composition at the Paris Conservatory. While in France she was the first American student of...