Orchestral
Make Her Lovely: Laura Mvula's New 'Sing to the Moon' Album Gets the Orchestral Treatment She Deserves
Gotham Chamber Opera, Doctorow Family Announce David Hertzberg Winner of Catherine Doctorow Prize For Music
Gotham Chamber Opera and the Jarvis & Constance Doctorow Family Foundation have announced David Hertzberg as the inaugural winner of the Catherine Doctorow Prize for Music. The newly founded Catherine Doctorow Prize for Music is an award of $15,000 to a composer for the creation of a new concert work for solo voice and chamber ensemble of between 3 to 10 acoustic instruments at 15 to 30 minutes in length. Composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Staying Spry at 75 with Three Premires: Solo Violin, Flute and Orchestra and New Swedish Radio Documentary
Following her 75th birthday this past April, composer (and violinist) Ellen Taaffe Zwilich has a stacked 2014-2015 season, including three separate performances--two of which are world premieres--as well as a Swedish radio documentary about her.