Author: Liane Curtis
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TBT: 1996 — TWP Performs (and records) Chen Yi
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 1996 with the beautiful CD of TWP led by JoAnn Falletta, of Music by Chen Yi, the fourth of…
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Juilliard’s 2020 Focus festival – Trailblazers: Women Composers of the 20th Century
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 series for their annual FOCUS festival, a festival which has typically espoused a single thematic idea,…
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TBT — The Women’s Phil as an American Orchestra (1999)
An article published by New Music Box on Sept. 1, 1999, celebrates The Women’s Philharmonic as one of twenty orchestras that are making a special commitment to new American music. Author Andrew Druckenbrod notes that TWP … has commissioned 35 works since its first concert in 1981, the preponderance of which are by American composers.…
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TBT — Celebrating The Women’s Philharmonic!
Happy New Year! We are starting a TBT “Throwback Thursday” series to highlight some of the achievements of The Women’s Philharmonic, the great and influential ensemble (1980-2004). I was reading some work by music critic Joshua Kosman, and I came across the review from 2000 linked below. There are certainly details I disagree with; Amy…