Tag: San Francisco Symphony
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Monday Link Round Up: January 31, 2022
The new documentary film about Marin Alsop, CONDUCTOR, directed by Bernadette Wegenstein, is earning well-deserved praise and attention. This includes an interview with Alsop on NPR, and a review in the New York Times. But (so far) our favorite response is from The Alliance of Women Film Journalists, Inc. “Alsop has fought tooth and…
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Monday Link Round Up: October 14, 2019
News and music to start your week! Contemporary Musical Theatre interviews composer Georgia Stitt. The focus is the organization Maestra Music which Stitt founded “to give support, visibility, and community to the women who make the music in the musical theater industry.” Read Five Questions to composer Katherine Balch from I Care if you Listen. …
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Monday Link Round Up: November 13, 2017
News to start your week! Michael Tilson Thomas has announced that he will be retiring from the San Francisco Symphony. The San Francisco Chronicle considers who should be given the post – and the importance of having a music director who values the works of women and people of color. Perhaps the search committee…
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US Premiere of Gubaidulina Second Violin Concerto
The San Francisco Symphony just hosted Sofia Gubaidulina in its inaugural Phyllis C. Wattis composer-in-residency. The two week residency, which ended on February 27th, was created in honor of a former SFS board member and philanthropist in the Bay Area. (More information about the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation can be found here.) The SFS performed…