Author: Liane Curtis
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2023 WPA Performance Grant Applications are Open!
Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy is a non-profit organization which (since 2008) has been demanding equity for women composers and celebrating the legacy of The Women’s Philharmonic (1980-2004). Applications for 2023 WPA Performance Grants opened on September 1, 2023. Community, professional, and youth orchestras in the United States are eligible. Those that have demonstrated an established commitment…
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All Hail The Tenth Muse! Part 1
By Dr. April Lynn James Affectionately known as The PhDiva!!!, Dr. April is a classically trained soprano with a PhD from Harvard best known for her groundbreaking work returning operas composed by women to the world’s stages. She survived her Harvard doctoral studies—aka, “boot camp for book lovers”—by getting away from the computer and engaging…
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Tonight, Boston Landmarks Orchestra concert “Seen-Unseen: The Symphonic Legacy of Black American Women”
Tonight, Boston Landmarks Orchestra presents “Seen-Unseen” — Wednesday, July 26 at 7:00pm, at Boston’s Hatch Shell on the Charles River. The concert includes the Overture to Shirley Graham’s opera “Tom-Tom,” which was performed in Cleveland in 1932. Dr. Lucy Caplan writes: “Ten thousand spectators came on the first night; fifteen thousand more on the second.…
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Link Roundup: June 26, 2023
Start the week by catching up with some of the exciting and GOOD news!! San Francisco Opera has staged its first work by a woman composer, El último sueño de Frida y Diego by Gabriela Lena Frank and (librettist) Nilo Cruz. Also the first production of a work in Spanish, the opera was premiered last…