by Liane Curtis | Feb 29, 2020
March is always busy, and this one is especially so! Feb. 29 (Leap day!) we have a concert by the Bay Area Rainbow Symphony featuring the he West Coast premiere of Ethel Smyth’s Overture to her opera The Boatswain’s Mate. This overture includes...
by Liane Curtis | Feb 21, 2020
In the past few years, so many have “discovered” the issue of women composers and gender in classical music. That is — for the most part — great! But sometimes it does seem like we keep on “re-inventing the wheel.” If instead we...
by Liane Curtis | Feb 15, 2020
Welcome to our Guest-blogger, Ian Sewell, a PhD Student in Music Theory at Columbia University. We thank him for sharing his experience about one of the 20th-century’s best- known works — and the difficulty in making an accurate and scholarly edition of...
by Liane Curtis | Jan 30, 2020
In celebration of Chinese New Year, we’d like to recall composer Chen Yi’s marvelous work with The Women’s Philharmonic. In the mid-1990s, Chen Yi served as composer-in-residence for The Women’s Philharmonic (TWP). This role culminated in...
by Liane Curtis | Jan 24, 2020
We are welcoming composer, pianist and soprano Tamara Cashour to our blog as our New York City-based correspondent. Tamara sends her first installment: In 2020, Juilliard continues to ride the crest of the Zeitgeist by presenting an all-women composer concert...