News and music to start your week! The 2018 BBC Proms are off and running (ICYMI here are the statistics of women’s representation we put together). Anna Meredith had a piece presented at First Night at the Proms and spoke to Fiona Maddocks about her work....
News and music to start your week! Congratulations to Missy Mazzoli who was named as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s new Composer in Residence! We look forward to how her influence, and music, impact the CSO programming in the coming seasons! A new commission...
News and music to start your week! In honor of Mother’s Day, WQXR has a series of conversations with women composers about motherhood. Hear from Sarah Kirkland Snider, Valerie Coleman, and Marilyn Shrude here. Classical FM has a brief history of women gaining...
News to start your week! Don’t miss this great piece by Kendra Preston Leonard about the myths surrounding composer and pedagogue Nadia Boulanger! Read on at Dr. Leonard’s website here. Composer and clarinetist Derek Bermel writes about diversity in the...
News to start your week! There have been a number of articles lately about the canon and the so-called “Invisible Hand” that dictates what art is preserved and celebrated. Read Harvard Musicologist Anne Shreffler’s thoughts here, and also a...
