The Detroit Symphony is sponsoring a competition for female composers….check it out ladies! http://www.dso.org/page.aspx?page_id=552 The Elaine Lebenbom Annual Memorial Award for Female Composers WINNER NOTIFICATION DATE AND PREMIERE SEASON FOR THE SIXTH ANNUAL ELAINE LEBENBOM COMPETITION HAVE CHANGED. PLEASE SEE BELOW FOR UPDATES GENERAL DESCRIPTION The Elaine Lebenbom Memorial Award for Female Composers is granted [...]
Archive for Cello and Piano Music
Quatre Sonnets a Cassandre, Martin F.
I just stumbled onto another gem – another work recommended by Robért Langevin, Principal Flutist with the New York Philharmonic. Amours de Ronsard, for Mezzo Soprano, Flute, Viola and Cello is the most beautiful work of the Swiss composer Frank Martin’s I have yet to experience….think Debussy and Ravel with a Renaissance twist. Looking very [...]
Four Songs by Andre Previn , based on Poems by Toni Morrison
We recently discovered this fabulous work and highly recommend it. It is a beautiful, poignant, and whimsical setting of these stunning poems. The piano writing is uniquely Previn and very interesting, the cello part is like another voice part, and the soprano part is soulful, contemplative, melancholy, and funky ! This is a work of [...]
