News and music to start your week! Musicians in Bonn, Germany celebrated the 200th birthday of Clara Schumann with Schumannfest! The event, which runs from June 1 to June 16, will include works by many women composers, not just Clara. However, there will be a...
News and music to start your week! The exciting conference Women, Feminists, and Music: Transforming Tomorrow Today kicks off on Thursday, at Berklee College of Music in Boston. The conference brings together the International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) and...
Congratulations to Joan Tower who will be awarded the Golden Baton at this year’s League of American Orchestras Conference in Nashville, TN (June 3-5)! The Golden Baton is organization’s highest honor. One of Tower’s most well known works, Made in...
News and music to start your week. As we pause on Memorial Day, here are some works by women composers appropriate for today’s reflection. Joan Tower’s Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman – a play off of Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man –...
News and music to start your week! Daniel Temkin is writing a series for New Music Box about ethics in music – with the most recent article being who in the new music world gets heard and why, including issues of representation. Read on here. Justin Davidson...