by Liane Curtis | Aug 2, 2022
While several other organizations now produce reports on the programming by orchestras in regard to diversity of composers, WPA started with our annual report in 2008, and we have consistently focused on the same set, the top level of U.S. orchestras. This provides...
by Liane Curtis | Jul 25, 2022
Africlassical blog brings us lots of good news! We always love hearing what Jeri Lynne Johnson and Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra are up to (pictured, Johnson at left leading a workshop) – fantastic news that they have been awarded a Mellon Foundation Grant for their...
by Liane Curtis | Jul 22, 2022
The music of the traditional male canon is well documented; however the roles of the female composers who had roles in the musical lives of those men has been marginalized — this is the historic process of patriarchy. For our new Hidden Herstory series we are...
by Liane Curtis | Jul 19, 2022
The music of Dame Ethel Smyth continues to draw more performances and recognition. Liane Curtis attended the moving performance of Smyth’s opera “The Wreckers” at the renowned Glyndebourne Festival, and offered this review. Glyndebourne’s video of the production...
by Liane Curtis | Jul 12, 2022
We have news about women conductors this week!! At the Chicago Symphony, Apprentice Conductor Lina González-Granados stepped in for Ricardo Muti with a minute’s notice – (really!) exciting moments in the life of a young conductor, and she has earned acclaim all...
