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Adriane White Conductor Marin Alsop talks to CPR Classical's Karla Walker about the women composers you should be listening to right now. Classical music conductors are hugely influential in determining what music you hear at concerts. They are the single biggest gatekeepers for whether most living composers will have their works performed or not.  Conductor Marin Alsop stands firm in her commitment to championing the works of women composers. "I try to program with diversity in mind, always adhering to my principle that I have to believe in the music in order to champion it," she said. We...

It’s unusual to remove square footage from a home during a renovation, but that’s exactly what designer Clara Jung of Banner Day Interiors did for her clients—a young family that recently had their first child—to give the space the flow and comfort they craved. Located in Oakland, California, the three bedroom, three bathroom house once had an addition near the kitchen that interrupted not only the backyard space but the interior as well. “It seemed unnecessary and out of sync with the rest of the home, so we recaptured it and returned it to the yard,” Jung says. “Even with th...

Warmth from other Suns. View here until April 29. 7:30 pm ET: SalonEra presents Women in Music. Women’s History Month is marked with instrumental and vocal music by Maddalena Sirmen, Barbara Strozzi, Isabella Leonarda, Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, and Clara Schumann. Featured guests include harpsichordist Byron Schenkman, violinist Shelby Yamin, and soprano Michele Kennedy, who share a commitment to researching, performing, and recording music by women composers. View here. 8 pm ET: EnsembleNEWSRQ presents Nightfall! The ensemble performs Gerard Grisey’s Stelé for two percussionist...

Verdi’s La Traviata. Conductor: Giacomo Sagripanti, director: Simon Stone. With Pretty Yende, Juan Diego Flórez, Igor Golovatenko, and Margaret Plummer. Register for free and view here. LIVE 2 pm ET: London Symphony Orchestra presents Rattle conducts Stravinsky. Sir Simon Rattle conducts the LSO in Stravinsky’s Octet for Wind Instruments, Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920), Four Norwegian Moods, Suite No 1, and Suite No 2. View here. 2 pm ET: VOCES8 Live from London, Spring presents Joanna MacGregor. To celebrate International Women’s Day, pianist Joanna MacGregor curates a jour...

2 Dubai chefs are teaming up for a cool collaboration in D3 next week Two nights, four hands, seven courses… Two of Dubai’s most exciting chefs are joining forces for what promises to be a cracking collaboration next week. On Monday March 8 and Tuesday March 9, Chef Akmal Anuar (of 3 Fils and Goldfish fame) will be teaming up with Adwait Anantwar of Mohalla to create a seven-course menu of Indian-meets-Japanese dishes. Dubai Design District restaurant Mohalla will be the setting for the multi-course feast. Over seven courses, then chefs will mesh the street food favourites of India and J...