Tag: Vítězslava Kaprálová
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WPA News Digest – July 29, 2024
Hope your week is off to a great start! Continuing the shake-up at the NYPhil, “A Power Vacuum at the Philharmonic” offers further reporting from Sammy Sussman at New York magazine. The April article “A Hidden Sexual-Assault Scandal at the New York Philharmonic” prompted a renewed investigation within the NYPhilharmonic and since then “at least…
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Elizabeth Recommends: Holiday Music for Orchestra
by Elizabeth de Brito Happy Holidays, everybody! As the festive season is firmly underway, I’ve curated a selection of the finest holiday orchestral and choral music written by women. Whilst the gazillionth performance of Handel’s Messiah may be a longstanding tradition in many places, this week I offer some amazing alternative holiday and Christmas classics…
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Monday Link Roundup: March 14, 2022
We hope you had an exciting International Women’s Day! March 8 revealed this statue of Dame Ethel Smyth, in the town of Woking, UK, where the great composer lived the last decades of her life. Sculptor Christine Charlesworth presents Smyth “wearing her customary tweed skirt, enthusiastically conducting … her face full of concentration … In…
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Monday Link Round Up: September 6, 2021
Music and news to start your week! Violinist Jennifer Koh, pictured above, turned the pandemic – and the silencing of the performing arts industry – into an opportunity to collaborate and create in a new way. She contacted composers and commissioned 40 new works for solo violin. The composers included Tania León, Missy Mazzoli, Angélica…