Tag: Rebecca Clarke
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Elizabeth Recommends: Holiday Music for Orchestra
by Elizabeth de Brito Happy Holidays, everybody! As the festive season is firmly underway, I’ve curated a selection of the finest holiday orchestral and choral music written by women. Whilst the gazillionth performance of Handel’s Messiah may be a longstanding tradition in many places, this week I offer some amazing alternative holiday and Christmas classics…
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Monday Link Round Up: October 26, 2020
News and music to start your week! The New York Times profiles Gabriela Lena Frank (pictured), composer and educator who works to encourage inclusion and representation in the field of classical music. She hosts an academy on her farm in California, that works with composers, including those whose background is not that of the traditional…
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Monday Link Round Up: April 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 🙂 German time, 20:00, 2 pm US East Coast time, 11 AM…
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Monday Link Round Up: August 26, 2019
News and music to start your week! We are now accepting applications for our Performance Grants! Find funding to support U.S. performances of works by women composers! Erica Jeal reviews a new recording of chamber works – specifically pieces for cello and piano – by Fanny Hensel (pictured) and Felix Mendelssohn for The Guardian. Also…