Monday Link Round Up: September 6, 2021

by sarah | Sep 6, 2021

Music and news to start your week! Violinist Jennifer Koh, pictured above, turned the pandemic – and the silencing of the performing arts industry – into an opportunity to collaborate and create in a new way.  She contacted composers and commissioned 40...

Monday Link Round Up: May 4, 2020

by sarah | May 4, 2020

News and music to start your week! The Washington Post has more about music being created during the current crisis – including more about Lisa Bielawa’s Broadcast from Home, the fourth installment was released this past week.  Bielawa, pictured above, is...

Met Opera to stream Kaija Saariaho’s Opera, L’amour de loin on May 6-7

by Liane Curtis | May 3, 2020

We are happy to report that the Met Opera’s ongoing daily streams (offered in response to their cancelling the remainder of their season because of COVID-19) will feature a work by a woman, Kaija Saariaho’s “L’amour de loin,” on Wed. May...

Monday Link Round Up: April 13, 2020

by sarah | Apr 13, 2020

News and music to start your week! Another work by Pauline Oliveros, pictured above, is being performed during this time of social distancing (the first being her Tuning Meditation, taking place every Saturday in April).  The  LA Times has the story of Opera...

Monday Link Round Up: September 24, 2018

by sarah | Sep 24, 2018

News and music to start your week! WFAE spoke to Nkieru Okoye who was commissioned to compose a new work for The Charlotte Symphony to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the city’s founding!  Read the interview, or listen in at the WFAE website. Huge news from...