Elizabeth recommends: Essential Orchestral Music by Women

Elizabeth recommends: Essential Orchestral Music by Women

by | Sep 23, 2022

By Elizabeth de Brito In this brand-new series, we will be introducing some of the essential orchestral music by women. We offer starting points for those unfamiliar with the vast body of work by women. This is not an exhaustive list, there are many more brilliant...
Dora Pejačević — another composer whose time has come?

Dora Pejačević — another composer whose time has come?

by | Feb 15, 2018

With two upcoming performances of music by Dora Pejačević taking place in the next few weeks, we wonder if this remarkable but little-known composer, who was writing powerful orchestral works a century ago, is finally ready for rediscovery.  [Wondering how to...

Contemporary Symphonies

by | Aug 28, 2015

The current issue of The New Yorker includes a column by Alex Ross in which he explores the ways in which the symphony has transformed in new music.   As one would expect, it covered the most familiar names with only a few surprises (including Gloria Coates who, to...