Amy Beach at Toronto Summer Music

There will be a great treat tonight for classical music lovers attending the Toronto Summer Music Festival – a performance of Amy Beach’s Piano Quintet in F-Sharp Minor, op. 67. Tickets and more information about the concert this evening is available here....
Tansey Davies Interview

Tansey Davies Interview

British composer Tansey Davies, who will have a new work performed at the BBC Proms this year, was interviewed by Sinfini Music. Davies work is an eclectic mix of traditional and contemporary approaches to music, and has received much well-deserved attention in recent...
Featured Guest Blogger: Amy Zigler reviews “The Wreckers”

Featured Guest Blogger: Amy Zigler reviews “The Wreckers”

    Dr. Amy Zigler is Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Salem College in Winston-Salem, NC.  She specializes in music of the 19th and 20th centuries, with a focus on the cultural study of chamber music, the social history of music in Germany and Great Britain,...

Monday Link Roundup: July 27, 2015

Start your week right by getting caught up on the news: WPA President Liane Curtis was able to attend a performance of Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers at Bard Summerscape.  Read her review here. And, in case you missed it, listen to the story about The Wreckers...

The Wreckers: An Opera for our Time

Ethel Smyth’s “The Wreckers” (1906) will receive its’ first staged US performance Friday night (July 24) at Bard Summerscape (total of 5 performances).  NPR’s All Things Considered aired a feature (available here)  about this historic performance (Musicologist...