
When Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s music first appeared on disc she had a couple of things going for her: first, she was a woman, which was
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s 1998 Violin Concerto is a marvelous work that communicates immediately to the heart, yet at the same time stimulates the intellect. It
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s music is often criticized as being derivative, but it is engaging, well-crafted, mercifully free from gimmickry, and stylistically coherent. The earliest work
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s Symphony No. 4 was funded by Michigan State University alumni Jack and Dottie Withrow, who requested a major orchestral and choral work
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (b. 1939) has long struggled to rise above the influences of Dmitri Shostakovich. Her earlier symphonies are virtual pastiches of Shostakovich with