“Change will come about because of programming like this,” writes Keith Powers in Thursday’s Herald News (New Bedford, MA), “and the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra has to take great pride in taking a leadership position…. Women and people of color are severely underrepresented in the concert hall, and the NBSO and music director Yaniv Dinur are taking steps to address that. The NBSO’s 2018-19 season opens this Friday with a performance featuring Vivian Fung’s harp concerto, and on each of this season’s programs Dinur has included a major work by a woman composer. Following Fung’s opening night piece, the January concert will have two works by Lili Boulanger; the February program includes Swedish composer Andrea Tarrodi’s cello concerto; and the season finale includes Zosha Di Castri’s symphonic work ‘Lineage.’… ‘This is a long overdue step,’ Dinur said. ‘I listened to a lot of music, and there were a lot of hard decisions. There are so many good pieces.’” The article includes comments from Fung, Tarrodi, and Di Castri as well as links to databases of women and diverse composers. The article is accompanied by a video in which Dinur, at a piano, discusses and plays samples from works on the season.
Posted October 12, 2018
In photo: New Bedford Symphony Orchestra Music Director Yaniv Dinur. Photo: Peter Pereira, The Standard-Times.
