Monday Link Round Up: November 9, 2015

by sarah | Nov 9, 2015

Some links to start the week! Louise Farrenc is BBC Radio 3’s Composer of the Week!  Listen to the radio show below! I also missed in sharing that BBC Radio 3 also featured Vítězslava Kaprálová as Composer of the Week earlier in October.   Jessica Duchen...

Portrait of the Composer as a Young Woman

by Liane Curtis | Jun 5, 2015

As noted earlier, I’m performing in the BARS Concert June 6. I’ve written the program notes for the concert, and here they are! The three pieces on our program today are linked, as our title suggests, by all being composed when their creators were young...

WPA President as Orchestral Cellist

by Liane Curtis | May 21, 2015

“I’d like to play in that,” was my immediate reaction on hearing about the program planned for June 6, 2015, by the Bay Area Rainbow Symphony in San Francisco.   I’d been communicating with BARS about how to obtain the score and parts for Ethel Smyth’s...

The 100th Birthday of Vítězslava Kaprálová

by sarah | Jan 28, 2015

Artistic directors, conductors, and radio playlist makers, love to acknowledge composer birthdays.  In fact, we just discussed how significant birthdays can impact programming on a national level as orchestras include tribute concerts in their annual programming.  ...

2014 In Review

by sarah | Jan 7, 2015

Bachtrack, the online database for concerts happening throughout the world, has published their annual review of 2014.  They looked at all of the ensembles, conductors, composers, and pieces that were included on their website (which collects information from...