Monday Link Round Up: August 10, 2020

by sarah | Aug 10, 2020

News and music to start your week! We are saddened to hear about the death of Helen Jones Woods – a trombonist who performed with the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, an interracial all-female Big Band that toured widely during WWII. Jones, pictured above,...

Monday Link Round Up: April 20, 2020

by sarah | Apr 20, 2020

News and music to start your week! The Digital Festival of Women in Music ( German version, Feminale der Musik) continues TODAY (April 20) with live interviews about Ethel Smyth (with Marleen Hoffmann) and Rebecca Clarke (with WPA President Liane Curtis, in English 🙂 ...

Monday Link Round Up: April 13, 2020

by sarah | Apr 13, 2020

News and music to start your week! Another work by Pauline Oliveros, pictured above, is being performed during this time of social distancing (the first being her Tuning Meditation, taking place every Saturday in April).  The  LA Times has the story of Opera...

Monday Link Round Up: March 30, 2020

by sarah | Mar 30, 2020

News and music to start your week! Congratulations go to composer and flautist Valerie Coleman, pictured, who was named 2020 Classical Woman of the Year by Performance Today.  Read more at Broadway World. Alex Ross writes at his blog, The Rest is Noise, about the...

Cal State Fullerton Celebrates 18th Annual New Music Festival

by Liane Curtis | Mar 2, 2019

With a truly exhilarating range of programming the 18th annual CSU Fullerton New Music Festival offered four days of interaction with influential performers and composers and memorable, cutting-edge concerts, February 19-23. Among the highlights were performances by...