2020-2021 Season: By the Numbers

2020-2021 Season: By the Numbers

By Sarah Baer Even amid all of the chaos and uncertainty – and cancelled seasons – due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ensembles are planning for the future.  All major ensembles have released their 2020-2021 season announcements, so we have once again read...
Monday Link Round Up: May 4, 2020

Monday Link Round Up: May 4, 2020

News and music to start your week! The Washington Post has more about music being created during the current crisis – including more about Lisa Bielawa’s Broadcast from Home, the fourth installment was released this past week.  Bielawa, pictured above, is...
Monday Link Round Up: April 27, 2020

Monday Link Round Up: April 27, 2020

News and music to start your week! Happy birthday to Dame Ethel Smyth! (April 22) Read reflections about the great composer, pictured right, by WPA Board Member Robyn Bramhall. There’s a wonderful new newsletter, “Fantastic Women Composers and Where To...
Monday Link Round Up: April 20, 2020

Monday Link Round Up: April 20, 2020

News and music to start your week! The Digital Festival of Women in Music ( German version, Feminale der Musik) continues TODAY (April 20) with live interviews about Ethel Smyth (with Marleen Hoffmann) and Rebecca Clarke (with WPA President Liane Curtis, in English 🙂 ...
Monday Link Round Up: April 13, 2020

Monday Link Round Up: April 13, 2020

News and music to start your week! Another work by Pauline Oliveros, pictured above, is being performed during this time of social distancing (the first being her Tuning Meditation, taking place every Saturday in April).  The  LA Times has the story of Opera...