by Liane Curtis | Dec 17, 2020
We were excited to learn that Ballet Co. Laboratory’s big holiday production is The Snow Queen, set to music by Dame Ethel Smyth. Artistic Director Zoé Emilie Henrot sat down with Liane Curtis (WPA President) to talk about how she came to use Smyth’s...
by Liane Curtis | Dec 4, 2020
Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy has launched our year-end fund-drive! Over the years we have worked to support orchestras in their efforts to program more works by women, and to bring these composers — of all historic eras, and from a range of backgrounds...
by Liane Curtis | Jul 22, 2020
We apologise for taking so long to get back to Part II of our post about composer and violinist Maddalena Laura Lombardini Sirmen (1745-1818). Part I, about her life, is found here. Our guest author is the London-based musician Martin Ash, whose website is...
by Liane Curtis | May 28, 2020
We are so excited to share this archived broadcast (from KPFK’s Pacifica Radio, 1991, 2 hours in length) that features an interview with Maestro JoAnn Falletta from 1991. The Women’s Philharmonic (still known as The Bay Area Women’s Philharmonic)...
by Liane Curtis | May 25, 2020
Taking up our #ThinkOutsideTheBachs challenge, London-based musician Martin Ash offers engaging insights on the groundbreaking and innovative violinist-composer (also singer and keyboard player) Maddalena Laura Lombardini Sirmen (1745-1818). Martin Ash is a viola...
