Our series of blogs about women in classical music continues with the first known woman composer, Hildegard von Bingen. She lived 900 years ago and was an abbess, visionary, healer, poet, composer and saint. Born in 1098 in Bermershein on…
For so many years, classical music was a male-dominated industry. If women had any participation in classical music, it was as entertainment for the family, on the operatic stage, or as teachers. Often, as was the case with the Mendelssohn…
Today we continue our celebration of Black History Month with a composer/performer/entrepreneur you may not know, but one we think you should and will enjoy…flutist Valerie Coleman. And we are not alone in accolades of her. She was recently named…
Along with those Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the first Coffee Concert of the New Mexico Philharmonic on Friday, February 11th at 10:45 a.m. will feature a work by another Black composer, George Walker. His beautiful Lyric for Strings…