Last month, Resonus Classics released an album of orchestral compositions by Avril Coleridge-Taylor, the daughter of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and a composer whose works defied the gendered and racialized expectations of her time. The project, which includes the world premiere recording of her Piano Concerto, was realized by pianist-scholar Dr. Samantha Ege, conductor Dr. John Andrews, […]
Author Archives: Dr. Judith Valerie Engel
… is an Austrian concert pianist, musicologist, and feminist scholar. She holds a DPhil in Historical Musicology from the University of Oxford, where she was a Stone-Mallabar Music Scholar at Christ Church, and is currently pursuing a DMA at UBC in Vancouver, as one of the university's Public Scholars, funded through the Department of Sociology.
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Munich 1997
Norman Lebrecht’s book Who Killed Classical Music was published in 1996, and contained an infamous anecdote about a conductor, named under a pseudonym, abusing children. The culprit was widely rumored to be James Levine. (In a recent groundbreaking investigation, Malcolm Gay and Kay Lazar of the Boston Globe confirmed a similar incident to the one […]