Amy Beach’s magnificent Piano Concerto in C-sharp minor will be performed Saturday, October 19 @ 7:30 pm by pianist Anne-Marie McDermott with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra under the baton of newly-appointed Artistic Director Mei-Ann Chen! Info and tickets below:
https://www.springfieldsymphony.org/event/new-england-reverie/
Excerpts of “Because I Could Not Stop,” based on Emily Dickinson’s poems and letters with music by Amy Beach, will be broadcast on Classical NEPM on Sunday, March 31 at 7 p.m.
“Because I Could Not Stop” is a coproduction of the Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts, the Ensemble for the Romantic Century of New York City and the Emily Dickinson Museum of Amherst and was funded by the Augustine Foundation.
For more info, visit their website here.
It’s rare that a major piece of Beach scholarship comes along, one that enriches our understanding of the composer with a vast amount of insightful detail and perception. The Cambridge Companion to Amy Beach is a newly published volume that will be essential reading for a wide range of music lovers.
Edited by distinguished scholar E. Douglas Bomberger, here is the volume’s Table of Contents
Part I. Historical Context:
Part II. Profiles of the Music:
Part III. Reception:
As our catalogue of music publications by Amy Beach continues to grow, we are reminded of this well-deserved Boston Globe review of Beach’s “Jephthah’s Daughter” for Soprano & Orchestra, Op. 53, brilliantly performed by soprano Sarah Pelletier and the New England Philharmonic! You may read the review below or visit the Boston Globe site.
The Lux Choir will be performing Amy Beach’s choral music in Maryland & DC on Aug 11 & 12! The program includes (1) The Greenwood, (2) Dusk in June, (3) Help Us, O God and (4) When the Last Sea is Sailed, together with works by Reger, Rachmaninoff & Dett. For more info, feel free to visit their website.
This weekend, Jan 6-8, the Vancouver Symphony will be joined by violinist Henning Kraggerud to perform works by Grieg, Mozart and Amy Beach’s Romance for Violin, Harp & Strings, arranged by Chris A. Trotman, Director of Publications for Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy! For more info and tickets, please visit the link below:
Happy Birthday, Amy Beach! She was born Amy Marcy Cheney on this day in Henniker, NH. In celebration we are giving away copies of our critical edition of Mvt. II — Alla siciliana — from her Symphony op. 32, “Gaelic” — please fill out this form to receive your PDF copy! Supplies are limited; this offer is valid through Sept. 12, 2022
As part of his series entitled “Symphonies and Concertos without Orchestra (a Covid Compromise),” Daniel Glover will be playing Beethoven’s 3rd Piano Concerto with Beach’s Cadenza this Friday, Dec. 18 at 7pm. The YouTube link for viewing the concert is https://youtu.be/w-WEHzbB40M, and the concert recording will remain available.
https://www.oldfirstconcerts.org/performance/daniel-glover-symphonies-and-concertos-without-orchestra-a-covid-compromise-friday-december-18-at-7-pm/
As part of their program entitled “She’s the First: Music to Celebrate the 19th Amendment’s Centennial,” the Boston Landmarks Orchestra together with soprano Brianna J. Robinson performed the world premiere of Amy Beach’s “The Year’s at the Spring” and “Ah, Love, but a day!” arranged for soprano, piano and string orchestra!
The arrangements that are so beautifully performed were generously donated by Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy and were made by Chris A. Trotman, Director of Publications for WPA! If you wish to know more about the works and/or wish to purchase the music, please visit https://www.amybeach.org/music/publications/.
The YouTube video below begins at the portion featuring Amy Beach and their performances of these new song arrangements, enjoy!
“The Bird Known Best by Composer Amy Beach” – an article about Amy Beach during one of her many residencies at the MacDowell Colony and her encounter with the Hermit Thrush that inspired her two solo piano works based on its birdsong!
https://www.macdowell.org/special-projects/legacy-amy-beach
Amy Beach’s Piano Quintet is on a new album from the Takacs Quartet and Garrick Ohlsson and a New York Times review!
Concerto pianist, Asiya Korepanova, will be joined by Orchestra Miami under the direction of Elaine Rinaldi to present their program entitled “Miami Mujeres,” which is in honor of the 100th Anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment giving Women the right to vote! The concert will also include works by three other note-worthy women composers – Tania León, Amy Beach, Florence Price and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.
The concert takes place at 8:00 PM on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020, at First Miami Presbyterian Church, located at 609 Brickell Avenue, Miami, FL 33131. VIP tickets, which include the post-concert reception and a reserved seat, are $60 per person. General admission seating for the concert only is priced from $5 to $40. Limited free parking is available at the church parking lot; spillover parking is available at the Bank of America parking garage adjacent to the church. Tickets and complete information can be found at www.orchestramiami.org or by calling (305) 274-2103.
The Congressional Chorus under the direction of David Simmons and joined by piano, timpani and strings will be performing Amy Beach’s monumental Festival Jubilate, Op. 17 as part of their concert entitled “Nevertheless, She Persisted…Music of America’s Women Composers!” Beach wrote this work for the dedication of the Woman’s Building at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1892! The newly-revised, reduced edition (originally for full orchestra, but reduced for piano, timpani and string quintet for this concert) of Festival Jubilate is made available by Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy, and specifically WPA’s Director of Publications Chris A. Trotman! The full orchestral version will also be released soon by WPA. The concert will also include works by many other American composers (visit URL below for more info).
The concert will take place this Sunday, Nov. 24, 2019, 4:30 pm in the historic Church of the Epiphany, and tickets are Preferred $39 (Preferred), $32 (General), $20 (Young Patrons ages 22-30, General) and $10 (Student ages 8-22, General).
For more info and to buy tickets, please click here.
On Nov. 10 in New York City, Beach’s Piano Trio, a wonderful late work, to be performed by the Neave Trio. For more info, visit here.
Here is a rare picture taken from the Etude Cover November 1929 (located in the UNH Special Collections)
A Boston Globe article concerning the upcoming concert featuring Amy Beach’s monumental “Gaelic” Symphony performed by the Mercury Orchestra under the direction of Channing Yu! Presented by the Boston Landmarks Orchestra, the Mercury Orchestra will perform at the DCR Hatch Memorial Shell, Charles River Esplanade, Aug. 7, 7 p.m. Free. 617-987-2000, www.landmarksorchestra.org
An upcoming concert will feature Beach’s monumental “Gaelic” Symphony!
In their program entitled STANFORD & BEACH, the Mercury Orchestra under the direction of Channing Yu will perform both Beach’s Symphony and Stanford’s Phaudrig Crohoore, ballad for chorus and orchestra on WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 2019 at 7:00 pm at the Hatch Memorial Shell on the Esplanade, Boston, MA (Rain location TBD). The concert is free admission and no tickets required. For more info, please visit http://www.mercuryorchestra.org/concerts.html
The Mercury Orchestra will be performing the Beach Symphony using the revised edition score/parts available from Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy (www.wophil.org). Also, both Dr. Liane Curtis (Founder/President of WPA) and Chris A. Trotman (Director of Publications & Editor-in-Chief of WPA) will be attending!
The Minnesota Orchestra will be performing the monumental “Gaelic” Symphony of Amy Beach this weekend, Sat. April 13 at 8pm! The event will also feature guest speaker Dr. Liane Curtis, who is the Founder/President of Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy! The Orchestra will be performing from the revised edition of the “Gaelic” Symphony available from Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy, and the edition editor/Director of Publications Chris A. Trotman will also be attending!
For more info, click here.
