Tag: Sally Beamish

  • Monday Link Round Up: August 29, 2016

    News to start your week! ICYMI we are celebrating the 130th birthday of Rebecca Carke!  Read more about Clarke’s life, music, and legacy here – or at The Rebecca Clarke Society! The reviews are in from the City of Birmingham’s performance at the BBC Proms, and The Guardian called the performance, led by Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, “spellbinding”…

  • Works by Women at the 2016 BBC Proms

    The most anticipated and celebrated summer festival each year — as well as one of the oldest, and longest, running from July to September.  The Proms always presents an interesting range of ensembles, conductors, soloists, and styles.  The 2016 season kicks off on Friday, July 15, demonstrating that this season is going to be much…

  • Monday Link Round Up: September 28, 2015

    Some news to start your week! NPR spoke with Pulitzer Prize winning composer Julia Wolfe discussing the winning work, Anthracite Fields, upon the release of the recording.  The conversation covers Wolfe’s inspiration and compositional process  Read more here or listen below:   Fiona Maddocks reviewed a new recording of works by Sally Beamish.   Featured works are The Singing…

  • Women Composers on WNPR

    Tuesday’s broadcast of The Colin McEnroe Show, which broadcasts out of WNPR in Connecticut, featured a conversation with contemporary women composers.  The show, inspired by the upcoming documentary, “Written by Mrs. Bach”, was (woefully) titled “The Plight of the Composeress” and included conversations with Sally Beamish, Paula Matthusen, and Jenny Giering.  The show also features…