Yesterday, Alex Ross wrote a short essay on The Rest is Noise about next season’s offerings at the New York Philharmonic. After discussing several highlights, including Stockhausen’s Gruppen at the Park Avenue Armory, the NYPO’s first presentation of a piece by Philip Glass (!), and a new work by John Corigliano, he pointed out some curious omissions.
Ross wrote,”The Contact! series will elicit new works from Alexandre Lunsqui, Yann Robin, and Michael Jarrell. The series has no American music this year, nor is there any music by women in the entire season.”
Like Ross, I’m very excited by some of the other programs the NY Phil has in store for audiences, but I can’t help but wish that both Contact! and the season in general were more diverse.
Let’s help them out: a list of American women composers that should appear on Contact! and subscription concerts at the NY Phil.
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Well, your picture on this entry suggests one possibility. Let’s see, these are some American women composers they should be looking at/listening to:
Arlene Sierra (who was featured on Contact last year, granted)
Hannah Lash
Xi Wang
Alexandra Gardner
Kristin Kuster
Kati Agocs
Angelica Negron
Elizabeth Vercoe
Augusta Read Thomas
Susan Botti (whose work has been featured by the Philharmonic before, as has Thomas’)
Carrie L. Rose
Stacey Garrop
Andrea Reinckemeyer
Marilyn Shrude
I’m sure I can think of more if you give me some time…
Forgot two that should not have been ommitted:
Alexandra Vrebalov
Tamar Muskal
In addition to the above:
Shulamit Ran
Joan Tower
Sofia Gubaidulina
Laura Schwendinger
Chen Yi
are all OBVIOUS.
Thanks, Smooke. Also,
Tania Leon
Victoria Bond
Melinda Wagner
Belinda Reynolds
Joan LaBarbara
Hell, Kyle Gann has a pretty good list (which I’m pilfering from a commenter on Christian’s Facebook page):
http://www.kylegann.com/women.html
Someone send that document to the NY Phil, stat!
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Just to add to the growing list:
Judith Lang Zaimont
Ellen Taafe Zwillich
Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté
Lili Boulanger
Lisa Bielawa
Unsuk Chin
Olga Neuwirth
Beata Moon
Pauline Oliveros
Alex Shapiro
Chihchun Chi-sun Lee
Eve Beglarian
It’s a shame that the NYPhil has chosen to ignore such a vital part of contemporary music.
My previous post seems to have vanished!
Once again I’ll add Gabriela Lena Frank
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Carola Bauckholt
Rebecca Saunders
Chaya Czernowin
Liza Lim
Erin Gee
Karin Haussmann
Isabel Mundry
Aaron and Nancy,
Excellent suggestions!
Best,
C
Ann Millikan(an extraordinary talent!)
Barbara Kolb
Missy Mazzoli
Annie Gosfield
Ruby Fulton
Ann LeBaron
Libby Larsen
Beth Anderson
Wendy Chambers
Janice Giteck
Margeret Brouwer
Elena Langer
Lera Auerbach
Cynthia Gerdes
Melissa Dunphy
Clarice Assad
Unsuk Chin
Alex Shapiro