The city of Bonn has hosted an annual Schumannfest since 1998 to celebrate the lives and music of two of the city’s most famous residents: Robert Schumann and Ludwig van Beethoven. However, in 2007 the name of the festival changed from the Bonn Schumann...
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 –...