Tag: The Metropolitan Opera
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Monday Link Round Up: October 5, 2020
News and music to start the week! There is a new organization, La Maestra, based in Paris and set out to encourage and promote more women conductors. Their first competition, held in September, drew more than 200 applicants, and 12 chosen contestants (including Jiajing Lai, pictured above) to compete for prizes including cash, mentoring, and…
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Monday Link Round Up: September 23, 2019
News and music to start your week! History was made at the Philadelphia Orchestra when they performed Umoja by Valerie Coleman – the first classical work by a living African American woman that they have every performed. Read more at The Philadelphia Inquirer. After last year’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing of Brett Kavanaugh, several composers responded…