Tag: Reena Esmail
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Monday Link Round Up: September 9, 2019
News and music to start your week! The topic of women’s bodies – and body shaming – is not new to the world of classical music, and opera in particular. In recent news, soprano Kathryn Lewek received more words on her body in a review than about her actual performance. Read more at BBC News…
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Monday Link Round Up: December 3, 2018
News and music to start your week! I can think of no better way to start a new week than with a new episode of Listening to Ladies! In this latest episode Elizabeth Blair discusses composition with Reena Esmail. Listen below – but find even more links and videos mentioned in the conversation on the…
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Monday Link Round Up: November 19, 2018
News and music to start your week! The Guardian has a profile of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor presented in an editorial by Lenny Henry. The profile highlights a program called Our Classical Century, which can be heard online. Composer Reena Esmail was interviewed by the Los Angeles Times discussing her musical influences, the challenges she has faced as…
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Dora Pejačević — another composer whose time has come?
With two upcoming performances of music by Dora Pejačević taking place in the next few weeks, we wonder if this remarkable but little-known composer, who was writing powerful orchestral works a century ago, is finally ready for rediscovery. [Wondering how to pronounce Pejačević?] A recipient of our Performance Grant, the Willamette Falls Symphony, will be performing…