Tag: Virginia Eskin
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Eskin Plays Beach in Maine
We were delighted to feature Virginia Eskin’s review on the new book about the Bauer sisters (in case you missed it, you can find it here) — and now we are delighted that she will be continuing to advocate for women composers in concert next weekend! The Augusta (ME) Symphony Orchestra is nonprofit symphony with volunteer amateur…
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Featured Guest Blogger: Virginia Eskin reviews new book on Bauer Sisters
This article was reprinted in April 2020, by the Boston Musical Intelligencer, with the provoking title “An American Scriabin?” Today’s Featured Guest Blogger is the renowned pianist, educator and radio journalist Virginia Eskin. A Boston and New Hampshire resident, Eskin is a long-time champion of the works of American and European women composers. She was the…
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Marion Bauer
Marion Bauer (1882-1955) was born in Walla Walla, Washington to immigrant French Jewish parents. She studied piano from a young age, later refining her talent in piano and composition at the Paris Conservatory. While in France she was the first American student of Nadia Boulanger, who taught her in exchange for English lessons. When she…
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“Ferocious Beauty” offers Powerful Discoveries
Chamber Orchestra of Boston, directed by David Feltner, with Virginia Eskin, piano Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston February 6, 2009 It was an event of very rare importance – the first performance on the east coast of a remarkable work composed in 1939. Czech composer Viteslava Kapralova died at the age of 25 barely a…