The Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University is pleased to announce the 2022 commission and project grant recipients, as well as the winner of the Fromm Music Foundation Prize. Each year, the Fromm Music Foundation accepts applications for commissions of new music, and awards commissions to fourteen American composers. The Fromm Music Foundation commissions represent…
NYT features Samora Pinderhughes’s new album
The New York Times writes “In the past few years Pinderhughes, 30, has been breaking out well beyond the Bay Area, and with the release of ‘Grief,’ he’s emerged as one of the most affecting singer-songwriters today, in any genre.”…
Alumna Natalie Hodges’s book Uncommon Measure in NYT
Describing Uncommon Measure, Natalie Hodges’s (AB ’19) collection of essays and memoir, reviewer Alexandra Jacobs writes “[C]ertainly in Hodges’s prose, you can sense a great freeing-up, what in her original discipline is called rubato, a rare ease. In words, as she could not in notes, she seems able to fruitfully process a tough past and…
Lift Ev’ry Voice Weekend reviewed in I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Reviewer Greg Nahabedian attended the April webinar showcasing Eileen Southern’s work as well as the choral concert featuring the Aeolians of Oakwood University as guest performers, writing that the entire weekend was “a reminder that music can be as joyful and celebratory as it is intellectually challenging.” They particularly highlighted the premiere of a piece…
Esperanza Spalding wins Best Jazz Vocal Album at the Grammys
Esperanza Spalding won her fifth Grammy for her eighth studio album, Songwrights Apothecary Lab. Read more at Billboard!…
Benjamin Wenzelberg ’21 in Boston Globe
Benjamin Wenzelberg’s senior thesis, NIGHTTOWN — an opera that reimagines two episodes of James Joyce’s Ulysses — was produced in March by Lowell House Opera and featured singers Elijah McCormack and Leo Balkovetz, who spoke with the Boston Globe about their experiences as trans opera singers. The most important thing, [Wenzelberg] said, was to give…
Julia Riew’s musical theater senior thesis in CNN
Julia Riew ’22 wrote her senior thesis, Shimcheong, because she wanted to create a Korean Disney princess. Read more at CNN!…