Emily E. Hogstad is the author of the blog Song of the Lark. She has appeared on or in MinnPost, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Minnesota Public Radio, National Public Radio, WQXR, Performance Today, and The New York Times to offer thoughts on topics as diverse as the Minnesota Orchestra’s historic 2015 trip to Cuba, what it means to be a music nerd, and social media activism in the orchestra world. Her great passion is researching the history of women in music, especially the great forgotten female violinists of the past. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, with a violin, a viola, a laptop named after Lili Boulanger, and two rescue cats, Gwendolyn and Genevieve.
Contributed Posts
Aug 23, 2023 Five Ways to Impress Your Music Teacher
Aug 19, 2023 13 Facts You Didn’t Know About Tchaikovsky’s Mysterious Benefactress, Nadezhda von Meck
Aug 12, 2023 Five of the Angriest Classical Music Feuds
Jul 30, 2023 Five of the Longest Symphonies Ever Composed
Jul 23, 2023 Four Surviving Pianos Played by the Great Composers