News and music to start off your YEAR! We are so excited for the upcoming premiere of Gabriella Smith’s first symphony!. Smith, pictured above, was commissioned by the Santa Rosa and Eugene Symphonies for the work, titled One, and which will receive its world...
News and Music to start your week! Last week saw the New York Premiere of Unsuk Chin’s “Su,” concerto for sheng, which had its world premiere in 2009. The New York Times spoke to Ms. Chin (pictured above) in advance of the Philharmonic’s...
News to start your week? But this last week was not just any week. For those in the US, the past week was something unique and critical. On Thursday we listened to a woman’s account of a violent sexual attack that she experienced. And we heard men —...
News to start your week! There have been a number of articles lately about the canon and the so-called “Invisible Hand” that dictates what art is preserved and celebrated. Read Harvard Musicologist Anne Shreffler’s thoughts here, and also a...
Lots of news to start your week! Anne Midgette has an important piece in The Washington Post about the difficulties women composers continue to face in having their works heard, and new commissions awarded. (There is funding out there, major orchestras just...
