Tag: WQXR
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Monday Link Round Up: May 21, 2018
News to start your week! Amazing new call for new music from Donne in Musica. Women composers of all music backgrounds, ages, and nationalities are invited to submit compositions inspired by the struggle for human rights. The call was inspired by the 70th Anniversary of the Adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Learn…
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Monday Link Round Up: May 14, 2018
News and music to start your week! In honor of Mother’s Day, WQXR has a series of conversations with women composers about motherhood. Hear from Sarah Kirkland Snider, Valerie Coleman, and Marilyn Shrude here. Classical FM has a brief history of women gaining entry to professional orchestras. Read on here. Congratulations to conductor Karina Canellakis who,…
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Monday Link Round Up: March 19, 2018
News to start your week! The March 8 concert performed by the BBC Orchestra —Music by five forgotten women — is available online until April 7! We’d like to invite critical engagement with the music revealed by this important event! We ask readers to submit their reviews (750 to 1500 words) of the concert to…
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Monday Link Round Up: November 20, 2017
News to start your week! There have been some particularly excellent pieces to come out of WQXR in! Their list of Eight Classical Era Composers who aren’t named Mozart or Haydn includes Maria Teresea Agnesi Pinottini, Princess Anna Amalia, and Marianne Martines. WQXR also included a list of works by Amy Beach in honor of her…