Tag: Nadia Boulanger
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Link Round-Up: August 16, 2021
Start your week with our look at the news! The Bard Music Festival transfixed us with its many amazing concerts, focusing on Nadia Boulanger and Her World. And while the live concerts are over, the preconcert lectures remain available, as is this panel discussion (featuring Festival Scholar-in-Residence Dr. Jeanice Brooks.) And we hope some of…
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Monday Link Round Up: August 2, 2021
News and music to start your week! The San Diego Union-Tribune profiles the life and work of composer Gabriela Lena Frank, pictured above. The article discusses her identities as a disabled woman of color (being of Peruvian, Chinese, and Lithuanian heritage). The composer’s work is being presented at La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest 2021 Composer…
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Monday Link Round Up: May 25, 2020
News and music to start your week! The New York Times introduced readers this week to the Iranian Female Composers Association, members of which are included above (from left: Anahita Abbasi, Aida Shirazi, and Niloufar Nourbakhsh). Learn about this wonderful organization and listen in to the fabulous music being created. The San Francisco Classical Voice…
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Monday Link Round Up: February 3, 2020
News and music to start your week! Congratulations go to Jennifer Higdon, pictured, for winning the Grammy for Best contemporary classical compositions for her Harp Concerto. Caroline Shaw also won the Grammy for Best Chamber Music Performance for her piece, Orange, performed by Attacca Quartet. See the full list of Classical Winners here. NewMusicBox rasies the…