Tag: Women Composers Festival of Hartford

  • Monday Link Round Up: June 21, 2021

    Monday Link Round Up: June 21, 2021

    News and music to start your week! The Chicago Tribune spoke with Missy Mazzoli, pictured above, who is wrapping up her third year as Composer In Residence at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.  She speaks with the Chicago Tribune about what it was like to be a composer in residence during a pandemic, and her work…

  • Monday Link Round Up: May 17, 2021

    Monday Link Round Up: May 17, 2021

    News and music to start the week! Learn about Kathleen Riddick, a British conductor who has been unjustly forgotten.  Riddick (pictured above) pioneered the way for future women to take the podium. The Isle of Wight County Press profiles the conductor, who lived from 1907 to 1973. NPR has the story of the International Sweethearts…

  • Monday Link Round Up: March 1, 2021

    Monday Link Round Up: March 1, 2021

    News and music to start your week – and happy Women’s History Month! Join us throughout the month of March as we highlight works that deserve to be heard more often.  Follow along on Twitter: @WomensPhil Learn about the rising composer Hannah Kendall (pictured above) and the U.S. Premiere of Kanashibari with the Seattle Symphony…

  • Monday Link Round Up: March 16, 2020

    Monday Link Round Up: March 16, 2020

    News (including some good news!) and music to start your week! The NPR Show Jazz Night in America has an hour long conversation with bassist Linda May Han Oh, pictured above.  She speaks about her love of the form, her compositions, and what it’s like to be a woman working in jazz.  Read more at the…