Tag: Mei-Ann Chen

  • WPA News Digest – October 14, 2024

    WPA News Digest – October 14, 2024

    The concert season is in full swing! It’s no secret we adore Amy Beach and her music, but especially her monumental and passionate Piano Concerto in C-sharp minor, Op. 45.  Was it “A Virtual Autobiography,” as has been suggested? If so, what a richly emotional life she had!  Saturday, Oct. 19, hear it performed by soloist…

  • WPA News Digest – October 7, 2024

    WPA News Digest – October 7, 2024

    Marin Alsop and the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra have recently enjoyed a successful eleven-city tour of Japan. In addition to classics by Beethoven and Mozart, their program included Jessie Montgomery’s Strum—a work that might be familiar to WPA readers, as it’s been featured in the News Digest in July. Her work Soul Force appeared…

  • Chicago Sinfonietta performs Regina Harris Baiocchi’s Muse for Orchestra

    Chicago Sinfonietta performs Regina Harris Baiocchi’s Muse for Orchestra

    Tonight, October 7, the Chicago Sinfonietta performs Regina Harris Baiocchi’s “Muse for Orchestra,” led by Music Director Mei Ann Chen.  Their Oct. 5 performance of the work, described as “a powerful tribute to the muses who inspire and guide us,” was its Chicago premiere.  The Chicago-based Baiocchi is also a poet and author as well…

  • Link Round Up: January 25, 2022

    Link Round Up: January 25, 2022

    Here’s some news for this week! Juilliard Focus Festival 2022, The Making of an American Music, 1899-1948 is taking place this week with much of it streaming.  The January 28 concluding orchestral concert will be conducted by Mei Ann Chen, and features Melissa White as soloist in Florence Price’s Violin Concerto n. 1! . Musicologist…