GRECCHINOIS
THE SONG OF CHICAGO
“I often find the seeds of future festivals buried in the layers of discovery that are unearthed as I research and program each year’s Collaborative Works Festival. This year’s festival, The Song of Chicago, is the result of this very process. CAIC’s first program entirely devoted to the music of Chicago was the opening program of the 2019 Collaborative Works Festival. Entitled The City, the program showcased the work of four of the Windy City’s pre-eminent women composers…”
IN YOUR DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
The text threads in my phone today are filled with melancholy, angry, depressed variations on the same theme: that most of the people who have my phone number simply do not have the heart to celebrate American Independence Day today.
I’ve always felt pretty mixed about the way we celebrate this anniversary of America’s birth…
BACH VS. JOHN
In the current cultural climate in which every tradition and piece of art by dead, white men is being questioned for its validity, I find that I am often asking myself: is classical music really for everybody? On the one hand, it’s a tenet in which I have always believed. On the other, as the classical music community examines all the racism, misogyny, and homophobia baked into a lot of this music and its institutions, it’s hard to think…
HORRIFIC ANNIVERSARIES
On this day in history, a lot of horrific atrocities were committed against Asian people. And even though we are commemorating past acts of violence waged against Asians, the numbers of anti-Asian attacks are only continuing to rise over the past year.
Today is not only the one year anniversary of the shootings in Atlanta…
THE CASE FOR EQUITY
…Canon is a human creation. It is dangerous to buy into the belief that all of the “great masters” rose into the pantheon of their own accord, simply on their own merit, like some sort of cream rising to the top. The narrative that as the classical music world leans into being more “woke”, we are being relegated to some sort of morass of mediocre music is a destructive fallacy…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY HANDEL
Just under the wire on the West Coast, a very happy birthday to George Frideric Handel...
Some very fond #Waybackwednesday memories from this dream-come-true role debut back in 2019 with my friends at Boston Baroque...
WOMEN OF THE NEW WORLD
“The woman of the future with her broader outlook for greater opportunities will go far, I believe, in creative work of every description...”
— CÉCILE CHAMINADE
When Cécile Chaminade speculated in the Washington Post about the increased scope of possibility for women artists of the future, her optimism would not prove unfounded…
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