In this one-hour broadcast, which includes recordings of Talma’s Piano Sonata No. 2, Variations on 13 ways of looking at blackbird, and Full Circle, Donald Macleod and I talk about Louise Talma and her time at the MacDowell Colony. You can listen to the broadcast online for the next 30 days for free.

I’m pleased to announce that I’ve won the 2016 Society for American Music Sight and Sound Subvention. The subvention will fund my project, “Scoring the Silver Screen from ‘Fairy Flirtations’ to The Sea Beast: Recordings of Repertoire from the Silent Film Sound and Music Archive,” which will involve a collaboration between the Silent Film Sound and Music Archive, professional silent film accompanist Ethan Uslan, and myself in recording 25 pieces from the Archive and making them available for free download through a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license. For the full list of pieces, please visit http://www.sfsma.org/ark/22915/sfsma-recording-project-wins-society-for-american-music-sight-and-sound-subvention.

My interview on BBC Radio 3 with Donald MacLeod on Louise Talma will air on 17 March 2016 at noon (UK time), with a repeat broadcast that evening at 18.30. It will thereafter be available online for 30 days at the BBC Radio 3 website. The episode is one of five for the week focusing on the contribution the MacDowell Colony has made to women composers’ lives and careers. The producer says that my bits are short, but I hope you’ll be listening more for Talma’s music anyway!