by Liane Curtis | Aug 8, 2022
Hope your week is off to a great start! The continuing push for women conductors, and Marin Alsop’s role in supporting more recognition, training and opportunities for women in the field is noted in this review of the “Breaking Barriers” Festival at Chicago’s Ravinia....
by Liane Curtis | Aug 4, 2022
Note from Liane Curtis — as professional musicologist, I’ve been researching women composers for over 30 years. So every time I learn about a composer I haven’t heard of, I am reminded that we still have so much we need to do! Our culture tended to...
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...
