In celebration of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, we are happy to highlight two important concerts happening this weekend!
Shirley J. Thompson, composer
The Chicago Sinfonietta presents Still I Rise, a concert of all women composers, led by Mei-Ann Chen, on March 6 and 7. The concert features Marianna Martines’ Sinfonia (1770), arguably the first Symphony composed by a woman; and Deeply Rooted Dance Theater in Florence Price’s “Dances in the Canebrakes” and Shirley J. Thompson’s Seventh Sense: Incidents in the Life of Queen Amanirenas for Dance and Orchestra (World Premiere; CS commission). The concert concludes with Amy Beach’s monumental Symphony in E minor, Op. 32 “Gaelic,”
AND, in the southern hemisphere, Pianist Asiya Korepanova and conductor Zoe Zeniodi bring Amy Beach’s great Piano Concerto in C-sharp minor (op.45) to life on Saturday March 7. The concert takes place in the historic Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, one of the great classical music venues of the world! Despite the Concerto being dedicated to the Venezuelan pianist Teresa Carreño, it has never been performed Argentina, nor (to our knowledge) in South America before! Please let us know if we are wrong (at info@wophil.org). So, this is an exciting premiere!! The program also includes Marianna Martines Sinfonia, and R. Schumann’s Symphony n. 1.
Teatro Colón, Argentina