Tag: violin concerto
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Composers to Discover! Ida Moberg’s Transfiguration
We continue our series, Composers to Discover! featuring essays by students in the Public Musicology Certificate Program at Columbus State University. Violinist Samuel Vargas Teixeira has an international career as a performer and recently graduated from the Schwob School of Music at Columbus University (Georgia) with a Masters in Music. In 2021 he won first…
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Julia Perry’s Violin Concerto Revealed
By Dr. Liane Curtis On Dec. 2, 2022 I had the opportunity to hear – more than hear, of course, to experience — the Experiential Orchestra in New York City (you will recall that EXO brought us the magnificent recording of Ethel Smyth’s The Prison, which won a Grammy in 2021). This was not something…
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Hidden Herstory – Brahms and his female contemporaries
by Elizabeth de Brito Two Germans, a Brit and a Swede walk into a Leipzig salon – sounds like the beginning of a bad joke doesn’t it? In this month’s Hidden Herstory article we explore the work of four composers –Amanda Maier, Ethel Smyth, Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms, whose lives intersected in late 19th…
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COTM: Julia Perry
Composer of the Week – Julia Perry by Elizabeth de Brito Conductor, violinist, pianist, singer, teacher, composer – this multi-talented woman ushered in a new era of neoclassicism with her wonderful compositions. As the revised edition of her Violin Concerto receives its world premiere in New York later this week, I explore Julia Perry’s life…