Monday Link Round Up: September 28, 2020

Monday Link Round Up: September 28, 2020

News and music to start your week! I Care If You Listen featured two women composers last week. First, Pulitzer Prize Winner Du Yun (pictured above) shared a list of listening suggestions – a great way to expand our weekly playlists.  They also spoke with...
TBT — The Women’s Phil as an American Orchestra (1999)

TBT — The Women’s Phil as an American Orchestra (1999)

An article published by New Music Box on Sept. 1, 1999, celebrates The Women’s Philharmonic as one of twenty orchestras that are making a special commitment to new American music.  Author Andrew Druckenbrod notes that TWP …  has commissioned 35 works since...
Monday Link Round Up: July 1, 2019

Monday Link Round Up: July 1, 2019

News and music to start your week! Jessica Duchen of The JC has the story of Erika Fox, a composer born in Vienna in 1936 who now at age 82 is celebrating the release of the first album of her compositions. The CD features chamber pieces spanning a 25-year period...
Monday Link Round Up: August 13, 2018

Monday Link Round Up: August 13, 2018

News and music to start your week! Hugely important piece by composer and musician Elizabeth Baker at New Music Box. In part: The problem continues when organizations promote “diversity initiatives” using only images of cisgender white women. What these actions and...
Monday Link Round Up: July 23, 2018

Monday Link Round Up: July 23, 2018

News and music to start your week! Pianist and musicologist Samantha Ege writes at Sound Studies blog — Sounding Out! — about her recent performance at the Australian Gender Diversity in Making Music conference – where she (most probably) gave the...