Thursday, September 18, 7pm - 8:30pm EST

GUEST SPEAKER SERIES
WEBINAR
Members - FREE
Non-Members - $35

Join former Washington Post chief classical music critic Anne Midgette and Composer, Music Critic and Juliard Professor Greg Sandow for a lively conversation.

This discussion will take place over Zoom. Participants are invited to send questions in before to be considered for discussion during the live conversation.

After our guest discussion, attendees will be invited to Zoom break out sessions to debate among themselves. Midgette and Sandow will drop into each room for interaction with the attendees.

Meet Our GUEST SPEAKERS

Anne Midgette was the classical music critic of The Washington Post for 12 years, from 2008 through 2019. Before that, she was for seven years a regular contributor of classical music and theater reviews to The New York Times. She has also written about music, the visual arts, dance, theater and film for The Wall Street Journal, Opera News, The Los Angeles Times, Town & Country, and many other publications, reviewing and interviewing everyone from Spike Lee through Marina Abramovic to Luciano Pavarotti. At the Post, she oversaw every aspect of classical music coverage, offset her music writing with occasional visual art reviews, expanded the reach of the beat on social media as The Classical Beat, and ultimately became known for her work on #MeToo in classical music, an issue on which she has continued to focus. 

A graduate of Yale University, where she majored in Classical Civilization, she lived in Germany for 11 years, writing for a range of publications about music, the visual arts, theater, dance and film; editing a monthly magazine; working as a translator; and writing several travel guidebooks. 

She is co-author of The King and I, a candid and controversial book written with Luciano Pavarotti’s former manager, Herbert Breslin, about his 36 years working with the temperamental tenor (Doubleday, 2004); and of My Nine Lives, the memoir of the pianist Leon Fleisher, who reinvented himself after losing the use of two fingers on his right hand, only to regain their use some 30 years later (Doubleday, 2010). She is currently working on a historical novel about the woman who built pianos for Beethoven. 

Greg Sandow collaborates with individuals and institutions as a consultant, speaker, and educator, and teaches at Juilliard as a member of the Graduate Studies Faculty. Greg's courses, including Classical Music in an Age of Pop, explore how classical music can adapt and thrive in the modern era. A composer with a master's degree from the Yale School of Music, has written several operas.

In addition to his teaching and composing, Greg specializes in helping musicians define their personal brand and navigate the evolving classical music landscape. He believes that classical music is on the cusp of a renaissance, reconnecting with contemporary culture and shedding some of its historical constraints. Greg is excited to be part of this movement and works closely with a growing network of individuals who are passionate about driving change in the classical music world. Outside of his professional life, Greg enjoys spending time with his wife, Anne Midgette, the former chief classical music critic for the Washington Post, and their son, Rafa, who brings boundless joy and energy to their family life.