Tag: music publishing
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Happy 157th Birthday, Amy Beach!
September 5 — Happy Birthday, Amy Beach — We are proud to be making much of her music available in our carefully edited and reasonably priced editions! and TBT — 7 years since this wonderful article in the NY Times, to celebrate her 150th!! Much has happened since then, many performances of Beach’s music, from…
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Honoring Diversity Work by two Women
We are saddened to learn of the passing of Dr. Barbara Garvey Jackson (1929-2022, obituary here), who worked for decades to advocate for music by women composers. She was a Professor at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, and has generations of students who attest to her dedication. She was part of the pioneering second…
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Beach work Premiered in WPA Edition
By Liane Curtis Our new edition of Amy Beach’s concert aria “Jephthah’s Daughter” was premiered last week. The edition is part of our project to make high-quality, engraved critical editions available for ALL of Beach’s music. We knew that “Jephthah’s Daughter” was certainly a rarity, but as we examined the history of the work further…
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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…