“The barriers to professional advancement for female composers and conductors have been falling for a while,” writes Michael Zwiebach in Tuesday’s (9/10) San Francisco Classical Voice. Among Bay Area orchestras, “The California Symphony kicks the season off right with a work by Gabriela Lena Frank, La Centinela e la paloma…. Marin Symphony’s … classical series [will feature] Anna Clyne’s festive Masquerade [during] a season that also embraces Missy Mazzoli and Gabriela Lena Frank. Mission Chamber Orchestra of San Jose is going back to the 19th century [with] Clara Wieck’s Piano Concerto in A Minor…. The Oakland Symphony’s … Nov. 15 ‘Notes From Korea’ concert features Jean Ahn’s The Woven Silk for haegeum [Korean string instrument] and orchestra…. Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra [will premiere] Caroline Shaw’s The Listeners.” Also scheduled: Lili Boulanger’s D’un soir triste and D’un matin de printemps by Symphony Silicon Valley; the San Francisco Symphony in Boulanger’s D’un matin de printemps; the Redwood Symphony in Cynthia Lee Wong’s Carnival Fever and Rachel Portman’s The Cider House Rules suite; and the San José Chamber Orchestra in Clarice Assad’s Impressions. “Santa Rosa Symphony also opens its season … with Anna Clyne’s Masquerade…. Jessie Montgomery’s Records From a Vanishing City is scheduled for December.”
Posted September 12, 2019
