New Releases Mar 24: A Focus on Women Composers
ALBUM REVIEW
March 24, 2026
Oliver Camacho and Adela Skowronski from WFMT reviews Sarah Kirkland Snider’s new studio album, Forward Into Light. Read more »
Sarah Kirkland Snider’s latest album features four of the composer’s orchestral works performed by Metropolis Ensemble led by artistic director Andrew Cyr. The title work, Forward Into Light, is a commission for the New York Philharmonic inspired by the American women’s suffrage movement. The album includes a reimagining of the string quartet Snider wrote for the Emerson String Quartet as the ensemble’s final commission – Drink the Wild Ayre in a version for string orchestra and harp, featuring harpist Noël Wan; Eye of Mnemosyne, a multimedia orchestral work on memory, innovation, and culture as refracted through the lens of photography, commissioned by the Rochester Philharmonic; and Something for the Dark, a meditation on resilience, commissioned by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra after Snider won its Lebenbom Competition in 2014.
