Boulanger Initiative Announces WoCo Fest 2025: Uplift

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Boulanger Initiative will host their annual two-day music festival, WoCo Fest 2025: Uplift, on May 30-31, at the The Mansion, Strathmore. This year’s event is an official World Pride Partner Event. For the purposes of this article only vocal concerts are included. The Opening Concert features the New Choir of Mt. Vernon with various instrumentalists including sitarist, vocalist, and composer {…}

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Grace Srinivasan & Crossley Hawn Star in Boulanger Initiative’s ‘WoCo Fest 2024: Evolve’

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The Boulanger Initiative has announced its WoCo Fest 2024: Evolve. The program has one vocal showcase scheduled for Saturday, April 13, 2024 at The Mansion at Strathmore. The concert in question will kick off at 1:30 p.m. and features sopranos Grace Srinivasan and Crossley Hawn. They are joined by Paula Maust at the harpsichord and Amy Domingues on viola da {…}

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Catapult Opera Gives American Premiere of Nadia Boulanger’s Only Opera, ‘La ville morte’

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(Photo credit: ©Sophie von Hellermann) Catapult Opera is set to give the American premiere of Nadia Boulanger’s opera “La Ville Morte.” With a libretto by Gabriele d’Annunzio from his play of the same name, “La Ville Morte” is a tale of “suppressed lust and taboo turned lethal, the prisons of other people’s objectifying desires, and the liberatory potential of creativity.” {…}

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Boulanger Initiative Hosts WoCo Fest 2023: Awaken Featuring Roomful of Teeth

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The Boulanger Initiative will host WoCo Fest 2023: Awaken on May 5 -6 in Washington D.C. The Grammy® award-winning ensemble Roomful of Teeth headline. The fifth annual event will feature the Stone Ridge Upper School Chorus and other multi-genre performances. Presentations include Dr. Leah Claiborne on Black American Women composers, a panel discussion on Boulanger Initiative’s new database, and yoga {…}

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Boulanger Initiative Launches Database for BIPOC, Women, & Gender Marginalized Composers

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The Boulanger Initiative (BI) launched its BIPOC, Women, and Gender Marginalized Composers Repertoire Database on March 13. Boulanger Initiative’s Database aids those who wish to diversify classical music programming by providing information on underrepresented composers. BI spent years researching archives, compiling data, and testing beta versions of the database to create this much-needed resource. Each entry includes the composer name(s), {…}

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Ben Bliss, Tyler Duncan, Joélle Harvey, Samantha Hankey Headline Bard Music Festival’s ‘Nadia Boulanger and Her World’

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The Bard Music Festival has unveiled the full slate of its “Nadia Boulanger and Her World.” For the purposes of this article, the focus will be on operatic and vocal programs and performers. First up is “Program One: The Exemplary” which will feature Boulanger’s music alongside that of Lili Boulanger, Praulx Rainier, Louise Talma, Grazyna Bacewiz, and Julia Perry. The {…}

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2021 Bard SummerScape and Music Festival to Celebrate Nadia Boulanger

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Bard SummerScape is set to kick off on July 8 and run through August 22. As part of SummerScape, the 31st Annual Bard Music Festival will celebrate the life and works of one of the most important women in music history, Nadia Boulanger (1878 – 1979). The festival will fete the Parisian polymath who taught composition to students such as {…}

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Nadia Boulanger & Ernest Chausson Highlight Bard Summerscape’s 2020 Season

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The Bard SummerScape has announced its 2020 season celebrating the Life and Times of Pioneering Parisian Polymath Nadia Boulanger, with Seven-Week Arts Festival in New York’s Hudson Valley. For the purpose of this article we will only focus on the vocal performances. Opera This season will mark the first fully-staged American presentation of Chausson’s “King Arthur,” directed by award-winner Mary {…}

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Joan Sutherland, Katherine Jolly, Mirjam Mesak & David Butt Philip Lead New CD & DVD Releases

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Welcome back for the CD and DVD releases from around the opera world. The New Year will continue to surprise audiences especially with new compilations from Beth Morrison Projects and Decca Classics which releases a number of recordings by legendary Joan Sutherland. There is also a world premiere recording of Nadia Boulanger’s opera. Here is a look at some of {…}

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Boulanger Initiative Announces WoCo Fest 2025: Uplift

Grace Srinivasan & Crossley Hawn Star in Boulanger Initiative’s ‘WoCo Fest 2024: Evolve’

Catapult Opera Gives American Premiere of Nadia Boulanger’s Only Opera, ‘La ville morte’

Boulanger Initiative Hosts WoCo Fest 2023: Awaken Featuring Roomful of Teeth

Boulanger Initiative Launches Database for BIPOC, Women, & Gender Marginalized Composers

Ben Bliss, Tyler Duncan, Joélle Harvey, Samantha Hankey Headline Bard Music Festival’s ‘Nadia Boulanger and Her World’

2021 Bard SummerScape and Music Festival to Celebrate Nadia Boulanger

Nadia Boulanger & Ernest Chausson Highlight Bard Summerscape’s 2020 Season

Joan Sutherland, Katherine Jolly, Mirjam Mesak & David Butt Philip Lead New CD & DVD Releases