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Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Tanglewood Festival: Male Singers Need Not Apply

In case you missed this in the New York Times' ArtsBeat the other day...One new twist at Tanglewood’s Festival of Contemporary Music is the involvement of a scholar in residence, to put the festival’s composers and music in perspective. This year's scholar in residence, Judith Tick, drew animated audience discussion, including comments from several composers, with a surprising statistic to the effect that some 70 percent of contemporary vocal music is written for the female voice.

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