by Liane Curtis | Mar 14, 2022
We hope you had an exciting International Women’s Day! March 8 revealed this statue of Dame Ethel Smyth, in the town of Woking, UK, where the great composer lived the last decades of her life. Sculptor Christine Charlesworth presents Smyth “wearing her...
by Liane Curtis | Mar 7, 2022
Happy Women’s History Month and (tomorrow) International Women’s Day! We are thrilled to unveil our newly updated and expanded database “500 Operas by Women”!! Last week we scolded the Met Opera for their continued denial of women’s creativity as composers. So here...
by Liane Curtis | Mar 1, 2022
Instead of our weekly news round-ups, we will be offering more frequent updates and commentary throughout this exciting and important month! Just in time for women’s History Month, the Met Opera made their annual statement that women cannot and do not compose...
by Liane Curtis | Feb 21, 2022
It’s a BIG week in Black History Month! We knew Julia Perry wrote a lot of music, of which only a small but astounding handful of works are ever heard. But a dramatic turn-around is happening – perhaps the result of BLM, and the re-assessment of everything prompted...
by Liane Curtis | Feb 14, 2022
Here’s some news for this week! Gabriella Smith’s vast and remarkable new work “One” was premiered by the Santa Rosa Symphony on Jan. 8. We are happy that it is available via this stream, (but only until until February 16), and we are proud to have supported this...
