September 16, 2022 • 12:36 am Comments Off on Trailblazing Women
Giancarlo Guerrero conducts the Nashville Symphony this week in a program devoted entirely to American women composers, including the world premiere of a major new choral-orchestral commission from Julia Wolfe titled Her Story. My program notes for the concert are available here (link on lower right).
Filed under: commissions, Julia Wolfe, music news, women composers
March 14, 2022 • 12:07 pm Comments Off on Six Centuries of Keyboard Music by Women
Byron Schenkman & Friends present the following program of Six Centuries of Keyboard Music by Women (available in the video above):
Maddalena Casulana: Amor per qual cagion
See the entire concert https://youtu.be/SzTiG4tMVcQ
Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre: Gavotte in A Minor
Specially recorded for this event
Anna Bon: Sonata in C Major, op. 2, no. 4
Specially recorded for this event
Clara Schumann: Nocturne in F Major, op. 6, no. 2, for piano
See the entire concert https://youtu.be/O_WLph0Y2Ts
Teresa Carreño: Un rêve en mer, op. 28
See the entire concert https://youtu.be/3qM-ik4G8zM
Margaret Bonds: Troubled Water
See the entire concert https://youtu.be/3qM-ik4G8zM
Mari Elabel Valverde: “his eyes were in the stars”
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April 25, 2018 • 10:00 am Comments Off on San Francisco Conservatory of Music Gets $46 Million Gift
Students in the Technology and Applied Composition program at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Credit Sewon Barrera
My latest New York Times story is now online.
Thanks to MaryClare Brzytwa, David Stull, Emily Pitts, DuMarkus Davis.
Here are some sound samples from the TAC program:
Filed under: music news, New York Times, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, women composers
December 14, 2016 • 1:56 am Comments Off on Women’ s Indelible Mark on Classical Music
My December began with one of the most thrilling performance experiences in a very long time: the Met Opera premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s L’amour de loin. Another highlight this year was Julia Bullock’s performance in the revised version of Saariaho’s La Passion de Simone at the Ojai Festival.
In honor of Saariaho, here’s a piece I wrote this past spring about women in music:
It took until 1920 for the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to be ratified, guaranteeing female citizens the right to vote. But almost 100 years later, the status quo in classical music still needs a whole lot of shaking up if women are to have any chance of fair representation.
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June 9, 2016 • 10:54 am Comments Off on The Other Mahler
Working on a piece on Alma Mahler’s songs. Nice playlist here:
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