Tag: National Sawdust
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WPA News Digest – September 9, 2024
Our big news this week is the Seattle Symphony’s announcement that Xian Zhang will be its next music director beginning in the 2025/26 season! This appointment distinguishes her as the first woman conductor to head a major orchestra on the US West Coast. Zhang will become music director designate during the 2024/25 season, and begin…
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Monday Link Round Up: July 16, 2018
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. Read more at The Guardian. In response to the…
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Monday Link Round Up: February 19, 2018
News to start your week! As more and more ensembles are releasing their 2018-2019 season programming it’s been great to read the responses, and calls for change, coming from social media from patrons, academics, and professionals. Don’t miss reading Anne Midgette’s “The Trouble with Opera” in The Washington Post. We would buy season tickets for…