Tag: Zosha di Castri
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Monday Link Round Up: April 26, 2021
News and music to start the week! Congratulations to composer Jessie Montgomery, pictured, who was just named the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s new composer in residence! Her three year term begins July 1. Read more at the Chicago Sun Times. The CSO Press release (PDF) is here. Also, these seven women have been appointed Guggenheim Fellows…
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Monday Link Round Up: August 10, 2020
News and music to start your week! We are saddened to hear about the death of Helen Jones Woods – a trombonist who performed with the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, an interracial all-female Big Band that toured widely during WWII. Jones, pictured above, was 96 and tragically died fighting COVID-19. Read more at NPR about…
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Music by Women at the Cabrillo Festival
The annual Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, held in Santa Cruz, California, has a history of highlighting music by women. This is due in part to the festival focusing on living composers – however, I suspect that it is in part a happy consequence of the programming of music director and conductor Marin Alsop. Here…