Tag: Salastina Music Society
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Monday Link Round Up: July 20, 2020
News and music to start your week! Nine Black musicians spoke to the New York Times about their experiences, and describe the steps they would like to see being made in transforming the field to being more inclusive. Hear from Monica Ellis, Thomas Wilkins, Jessie Montgomery, Rodrick Cox, Anthony McGill, Lawrence Brownlee, Terence Blanchard, Latonia…
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Monday Link Round Up: June 24, 2019
News and music to start your week! Marin Alsop has started a fellowship for women conductors to help encourage the number of women entering the field. She was interviewed by the New York Times about this new project, her career until this point, and the hurdles that women conductors continue to face. Several organizations, including…
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A musical “blind taste-test” casts light on the biased processes of Canon-formation
Salastina Music Society carried out a remarkably original experiment last weekend (Oct. 6 & 7) – raising issues of how and why some works get into the classical music canon – and some works don’t. Salastina’s two directors were struck by a certain piano trio, and astonished that they hadn’t heard of it previously. So…