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March 14, 2022 • 12:07 pm Comments Off on Six Centuries of Keyboard Music by Women

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

San Francisco Conservatory of Music Gets $46 Million Gift

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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:

TAC assorted tracks playlist: Covers a variety of genres from students in the TAC program

TAC Sony project playlist: Music created for a fake video game about a female protagonist stuck on Mars; recorded at Sony Playstation Studios in San Mateo California

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

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

The Other Mahler

Working on a piece on Alma Mahler’s songs. Nice playlist here:

Filed under: Alma Mahler, women composers

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