All Hail The Tenth Muse! Part 2

All Hail The Tenth Muse! Part 2

By Dr. April Lynn James.  Part 1 is published here  My bestselling book,* The Tenth Muse: How Maria Antonia Advanced the Pastoral Opera, is a major revision of the dissertation I completed in 2002. Why did I not publish it then? I had other things to do with my life...
Monday Link Roundup: Sept. 25, 2023

Monday Link Roundup: Sept. 25, 2023

Two Important Festivals: The Women Composers Festival of Tübingen begins on Friday Sept. 29.  With a focus on the 19th Century: Tübingen composer Josephine Lang and three contemporaries (Emilie Mayer, Luise Adolpha Le Beau and Ethel Smyth), it continues 10 days and...
Link Roundup: June 26, 2023

Link Roundup: June 26, 2023

Start the week by catching up with some of the exciting and GOOD news!! San Francisco Opera has staged its first work by a woman composer, El último sueño de Frida y Diego by Gabriela Lena Frank and (librettist) Nilo Cruz.  Also the first production of a work in...
Link Roundup: June 6, 2023

Link Roundup: June 6, 2023

Readers have bemoaned the lapse of our Link Roundup feature, SO, we are going to try and get back in the swing of it!  It just seems like there is SO much important news sometimes, and we can’t claim to have a complete grasp on it — but here are a FEW...