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Monday Link Round Up – March 29, 2021
News and music to start your week! Arizona State University is in the news for their new Black Women Composers Project. Lorrie McAllister, associate university librarian of collections and analysis at ASU library says: The Black Women Composers Project is illustrative of our strategic initiative to prioritize the preservation and digitization of resources that elevate…
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Monday Link Round Up: March 22, 2021
News and music to start your week! Congratulations continue to pour in for Ethel Smyth’s first-ever Grammy, thanks to the recording by James Blachly and The Experiential Orchestra! This crowdfunded CD, which WPA was proud to help support, has been praised since its release, and this award further reinforces not only this work, but the…
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Monday Link Round Up March 15, 2021
We start with some BIG NEWS! Dame Ethel Smyth’s “The Prison” has become the first work by a historic woman composer to win a Grammy Award. Smyth: The Prison, with soloists soprano Sarah Brailey and bass-baritone Dashon Burton, and the Experiential Orchestra and Chorus directed by James Blachly, won in the Best Classical Solo Vocal…
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Monday Link Round Up – March 8, 2021
News and music to start your week! Happy International Women’s Day! Check out this post for the ways we’ve found you can listen to works by women composers (as well as learn about them) throughout today! Great news from BBC Radio 3 which has announced funding to seven researchers to give recognition to classical composers…