NPR’s Deceptive Cadence picked up on a twitter feed recently questioning which composer is the “biggest badass”, with qualifications to include drugs, sex, guts and politics. The list of composers included (surprise!!!) no women. Though the list, which was compiled...
Some say that Mattel’s much loved and much hated doll will help save the symphony orchestra. By some I mean Arnie Roth: conductor, violinist, and award winning composer for no less than ten straight-to-DVD movies featuring Barbie in classic stories or ballets which...
As I mentioned during her Feast Day, Hildegard of Bingen is clearly one of the most extraordinary women in history, if not the most extraordinary. Her achievements, including standing up to and even actively challenging The Church, and recording her visions and...
In honor of the Thanksgiving holiday, NPR music commentator Miles Hoffman did a report on musical families for Morning Edition. The light piece, lasting about seven minutes, discussed the work of a few of the best known (or “most likely to be known”) women that were...
I suppose it was only a matter of time before television directors, perhaps desperate for a new idea, attempted an unorthodox and possibly fatal combination: classical music and popular culture. Enter Maestro, a British reality program that challenges celebrities to...
