Monday Link Round Up: January 31, 2022

by Liane Curtis | Jan 31, 2022

  The new documentary film about Marin Alsop, CONDUCTOR, directed by Bernadette Wegenstein, is earning well-deserved praise and attention.  This includes an interview with Alsop on NPR, and a review in the New York Times.  But (so far) our favorite response is...

Monday Link Round Up: September 20, 2021

by sarah | Sep 20, 2021

News and music to start your week! Congratulations to Mary Watkins, recipient of Opera America’s Opera Grants for Female Composers!  Learn more about her opera Dark River: The Fannie Lou Hammer Story as well as her Emmet Till: The Opera, scheduled for premiere...

Monday Link Round Up: April 19, 2021

by sarah | Apr 19, 2021

News and music to start your week! Congratulations to Sherri Chung, pictured above, the first Asian-American woman to compose the music for an hour-long network drama.  Listen in to her scores on the new series, “Kung Fu” (a “reimagining of the 1970s...

Monday Link Round Up: January 18, 2021

by sarah | Jan 18, 2021

News and music to start your week! We in the United States are greatly anticipating Wednesday, January 20, which is inauguration day.  Though Washington D.C. will be missing the parades and festivities that are typically associated with the event, we can look forward...

Monday Link Round Up: December 7, 2020

by sarah | Dec 7, 2020

News and music to start your week! Leah Broad writes for The Guardian about the importance in remembering all histories in the retelling of music history.  She particularly champions the life of and work of Dame Ethel Smyth, pictured above, throughout her article...