Monday Link Round Up: April 22, 2019

Monday Link Round Up: April 22, 2019

News and music to start your week! Congratulations to Ellen Reid on her Pulitzer Prize for p r i s m, an opera she composed with a libretto by Roxie Perkins.  Read more at NPR, read what Alex Ross wrote about the piece in The New Yorker, and learn more about Reid in a...

The 1.7 Percent: Distilling the 2008-2009 Repertoire Reports

Stories about “the 1%” abound in the media, but today I would like to shine a light on a far less reported, though far more relevant for this site’s purposes, statistic: the 1.7%. Our own Sarah Baer crunched the numbers (provided by the League of American...
Joana Carneiro Wins Job at Berkeley

Joana Carneiro Wins Job at Berkeley

Portuguese-born conductor Joana Carneiro has been appointed as the new music director for the Berkeley Symphony. Carniero was the former assistant conductor of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the music director of the Los Angeles Debut Orchestra. The LA Times...