Tag: Missy Mazzoli
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News Round-Up, July 6, 2021
Here is our Selection of News Links! Chi-Chi Nwanoku (OBE), bassist and founder of Chineke! Orchestra, has worked to recover the role of George Bridgetower, a violinist of African descent, who inspired and premiered Beethoven’s Sonata op. 47. Nwanoku’s work has led the publisher Peters to reprint the Sonata naming it after Bridgetower, rather than…
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Monday Link Round Up: June 28, 2021
News and music to start your week! Congratulations go to conductor Oksana Lyniv, pictured above, who will be the first woman to lead the orchestra at the Bayreuth festival. Learn more about her career and her experiences being the only woman studying conducting at the college in Lviv. DW.com has the interview. Opera Steamboat has…
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Monday Link Round Up: June 21, 2021
News and music to start your week! The Chicago Tribune spoke with Missy Mazzoli, pictured above, who is wrapping up her third year as Composer In Residence at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She speaks with the Chicago Tribune about what it was like to be a composer in residence during a pandemic, and her work…
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Tanglewood — and Beethoven Idolatry — is Back For 2021
By Sarah Baer (with some input by Liane Curtis) The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer home is getting ready to welcome guests again in what is perhaps an ideal venue for events in these strange times. The traditions of lawn chairs and picnics while enjoying some of the highest-quality performances available in the United States will…