Tomorrow (November 26) is the final deadline to submit an application for the 2014 Performance Grants! There is still time to complete your application (or to encourage your favorite ensemble to do so) and receive funding to support an upcoming performance of works...
In light of the Mrs. Bach controversy (which is still ruffling feathers…) the BBC has put together a list of 10 women who”changed music”. Check it out here. The usual suspects are on the list – which raises the question, who would you add?...
Next up in our collection of suggestions for repertoire that would be perfect for a performance supported by the Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy Performance Grants, is the work of Florence Price. Price was a prolific composer whose works ranged from spirituals to...
The deadline for the WPA Performance Grants is next week! Our latest installment in suggested repertoire brings us to Fanny Hensel (nee Mendelssohn). Hensel is one of the few historic women who have a chance of being included in a music history textbook. (If only as...
The classical music world has been all a-tizzy in recent days about Martin Jarvis’ work linking Anna Magdalena Bach to J.S. Bach’s Cello Suites. The story first made headlines in 2008, and again last week now that the theory is explored in a film. The...
