While many musicians were fleeing Europe ahead of the cataclysm of World War II, Benjamin Britten was returning to the United Kingdom from a sojourn in the United States. Just before doing so in 1939, ...
Ask someone to visualize an orchestra conductor, and the image will probably be male. Female music directors remain as rare with top orchestras and opera companies as female CEOs at major corporations ...
A native of Barquisimeto, Venezuela, Gabriela began her violin studies at age 6 and became part of that country’s famed music-education program known as El Sistema or The System.