'A work of art is a viewpoint from an artist...if you have only one part of society that always gets their viewpoint heard, we constantly hear one viewpoint.'

Fab interview & article from Sarah Fritz & A. Kori on The Philadelphia Orchestra, Price & Schumann! nytimes.com/2022/10/27/art…

Goodness this article is a mess. As ever, would direct those interested in Oxbridge admissions to the respective university info on contextual admissions.

For Oxford: ox.ac.uk/admissions/und…

For Cambridge: undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/applying/conte…

I’m dead.

Counting down to publication day in my calendar...!

It's that time of year again - Twitter, please can you recommend me your favourite Halloween movies that are not actually scary? Previous hits have included Buffy, Teen Wolf, Hocus Pocus, Sabrina, etc. OR non-gory psychological thrillers!

If you live in the Skipton vicinity, check out the forthcoming concerts from Skipton Music - they've got Maconchy, Vaughan Williams, LeFanu, Janacek, Price, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Bonds, Handel, Nina Simone, Beach, Farrenc, Strozzi, Appleby - what a vibrant season!

Orchestras, programme planners, arts administrators, take note. Great work Dr Leah Broad

This is amazing. I learned a lot from it and now have a long playlist of music to listen to this week 🎻😍

Invaluable stuff here… 👀

This is an excellent resource 👏👏

from my experience listening to and participating in these conversations, this is a nice resource from @leahbroad for artistic administrators, definitely for planning and research. check it out!

A super thoughtful post from Leah that balances musical possibilities alongside the practical considerations of putting up an orchestral concert!

If you haven’t yet subscribed to Dr Leah Broad ’s substack, omg don’t wait another second. Every piece she writes is brilliant & important & engaging.

Super useful list of music by women composers with links to listen to them and get hold of the scores and parts all in one place!!

Thankyou Dr Leah Broad

Diversifying Your Repertoire: Orchestra Edition, by Dr Leah Broad open.substack.com/pub/leahbroad/…

Programming Brahms 2 and want to pair it with a work by a woman? This week's post is on diversifying orchestral repertoire, with programme pairings, instrumentations, recordings, play times, & score locations of some key works by historical British women leahbroad.substack.com/p/diversifying…

Want to programme orchestral works by women but don't know where to start? Then this week's Substack is for you - today's post will be a one-stop-shop programming guide for including British women in your orchestral season. Get it to your inbox via leahbroad.substack.com

Such a pleasure interviewing composer Ian Venables today for Oxford Lieder! Do tune in to BBC Radio 3 later to hear the world premiere of his 'Portraits of a Mind' (having had a sneak peek at the score can confirm it is 🔥🔥🔥)

one of my friends just sent me this and it is perfect