Author: Liane Curtis
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Monday Link Roundup: March 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 customary tweed skirt, enthusiastically conducting … her face full of concentration … In…
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Happy International Women’s Day! And Link Round-Up!
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 is our reply: HUNDREDS of operas from every era and a wide span…
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Link Round-Up! March 1, 2022 — Happy Women’s History Month!
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 opera. “In our long history, there have been two exceptions,” said the imaginary…
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Monday Link Roundup: February 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 the downtime of the pandemic (and…