Featured Guest Blog: Discovering Louise Talma’s First Orchestral Works

by Liane Curtis | Apr 2, 2015

Featured Guest Blogger:  Kendra Preston Leonard   We are happy to be launching a new series of guest bloggers. Leonard’s book Louise Talma: A Life in Composition (Ashgate) was published last year and caught our attention, so we are honored to have her as our...

NEW DISCOVERIES of Florence Price’s Music revealed in Arkansas Festival!!

by Liane Curtis | Feb 26, 2015

The historic importance of Florence Price (1887–1953), as the first African American woman to have a Symphony performed by a major orchestra, has been recognized.  However, while she had some success in her lifetime, after she died very little of her music remained...

The “Female Beethoven” rediscovered in north Germany!

by Liane Curtis | Feb 21, 2015

“The Norwegians have their Grieg, The Finns their Sibelius, the Poles have their Chopin.  And WE have Emilie Mayer – we just didn’t know it until now!”  So proclaimed the northern German Nordkurrier  in May 2012, when the Neubrandenburger Philharmonie...

2010-2011 Repertoire Report

by sarah | Oct 30, 2014

While our priority at the moment is to get the word out about our Performance Grants, we thought we might take a moment to reaffirm the need for those grants, by taking a close look at some data about what orchestras are programming.  In our work to level the playing...

Remembering Nadia Boulanger

by sarah | Sep 16, 2014

Today would be the 127th birthday of Nadia Boulanger – the foremost music educator of the 20th century.  Her skill and expertise were widely sought, and her list of students is more than extensive and impressive.  I highly recommend Bruno Monsaingeon’s...