News to start your week! On December 1 the Met Opera performed L’Amour de Loin by Kaija Saariaho. This historic Met premiere marked only the second time a work by a woman composer has been heard at the institution – the last being over a century ago....
News to start your week! Composer Patricia Morehead writes about her experiences as a young composer starting out in Chicago, and as a founder of CUBE Contemporary Chamber Ensemble. Read about her full and exciting career, and work to promote new music and support...
News to start your week! The Library of Congress blog, In the Muse, has a guest post by Kate Doyle, a doctoral candidate specializing in experimental composition and sound for performance art at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Doyle focused this...
News to start your week: Elizabeth Blair – herself a composer, activist, and writer – has a fantastic interview with composer Lisa Coons available to read now at VAN Magazine. Frank Oteri at New Music Box has an interview with American composer Eleanor...
Some news – and great listening – to start your week! NPR had some great stories in recent days – including this feature on the life and music of jazz pianist and composer Marian McPartland. Listen below: NPR also introduced listeners to...