It's that time of year, and I will try post at least some analysis of orchestral seasons across the country and how they are doing repertory-wise, that is, dead white guys versus the rest of the world.
A preliminary note that the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Classical Series is a disgrace: the season has works by 8 9 living composers, mostly guys, mostly white. They are Michael Abels, Mason Bates, Tan Dun, Philip Glass, Magnus Lindberg, Arvo Pärt, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Roberto Sierra, and Julia Wolfe. The rest of the season is dead white men, except for a short work by Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, which I missed the other day.
Karina Canellakis and Jane Glover are the only women who are conducting.
You can see all of the details on the handy CSO season grid. I wish every orchestra published a document like this!
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No, there is one woman composer hiding in there. You didn't see her?
Obviously not! I will have to publish a correction later today.
Duly corrected, thank you.
There's another one you missed, and she's not even dead.
You see Wolfe, your brain stops at Hugo.
Hugo has no "e" in his name. I would have thought that "Liberty Bell" would have primed you for Sousa, or maybe Monty Python...
Reading too fast!
Great review of the Poiesis, by the way. (I just got around to reading it.) Conveys well what we heard in them on previous occasions.
Thank you so much!
I am eagerly awaiting the SFS announcement. Should be sometime soon, if past years have been any indicator.
Thursday, 10 am. :-)
Thank you!!
I just got SFS in the mail. Still no MD, but whaddaya know, Salonen is returning! It's on my series, heh heh.
There's an SFCV write up by Janos and Chronicle by me - I am out of town and haven't posted links and comments yet.
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