Tag: Susanna Mälkki
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Monday Link Round Up: January 22, 2018
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 response to Shreffler’s work by composer Jon Silpayamanant here. The Washington Post profiles Missy Mazzoli, and explore her…
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Monday Link Round Up: November 6, 2017
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 aren’t interested in using it.) Read online here. Ryan Ebright of The New York…
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Podcast Episode 02: “It’s about friggin’ time!” — Met Opera performs work composed by a woman
Happy New Year! Without a doubt, one of 2016’s most exciting music events was the performance of Kaija Saariaho’s “L’Amour de Loin” at New York’s Metropolitan Opera. Our very first podcast offered some insiders’ ideas about the production. Now, in our second podcast, composer Milica Paranosic goes “on the scene” at Lincoln Center (at the…
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Podcast Episode 01: The Significance of “L’Amour de Loin”
In our first ever Podcast, journalist Naomi Lewin and opera dramaturg Cori Ellison discuss the Met’s production of Kaija Saariaho‘s 2000 opera “L’Amour de Loin.” Naomi Lewin has produced the podcast, which includes interview clips with the composer, as well as the conductor Susanna Mälkki. We also hear audio clips from the opera, and…