Monday Link Round Up: October 31, 2016

by | Oct 31, 2016

News to start your week! In honor of Halloween, take a few minutes to read about Elizabeth Lutyens – an English composer who worked in serialism, but who is perhaps most famous for the dozens of film scores she wrote for horror films!  Read more here.   The...

Xian Zhang at the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra

by | Oct 28, 2016

We’ve been excited about the appointment since it was first announced – and now Xian Zhang’s first season as music director of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra has officially begun! The appointment was highly praised at the time – and for good...
“Mrs. President” Opera, Oct. 28 in NYC

“Mrs. President” Opera, Oct. 28 in NYC

by | Oct 27, 2016

An opera about the original “Nasty Woman,” Victoria Woodhull, will be performed tomorrow at the National Opera Center in New York City, Friday Oct. 28.  Composer Victoria Bond wrote the work in 2000, together with librettist Hillary Bell.  It will also be streamed...
Coming Concerts

Coming Concerts

by | Oct 26, 2016

Two more great events to look forward toward this weekend from WPA Performance Grant winners!! The Saratoga Orchestra of Whidbey Island, under the direction of Anna Edwards, will perform American composer Margaret Brouwer’s Sizzle.  The piece was originally...

Monday Link Round Up: October 24, 2016

by | Oct 24, 2016

News to start your week!   In another follow up to the performance of works by Saariaho by the New York Phil, read the review by Alex Ross in the October 31 issue of The New Yorker.  The full article is available online here.   Cellist Evangeline Benedetti...