Women's Philharmonic Advocacy

Author: sarah

  • Monday Link Round Up: March 26, 2018

    News to start your week! OPERA America has announced recipients for their Grants for Female Composers initiative for 2018.  Eight women composers have received funds to support operas currently in development.  Read more about the winners, and the forthcoming works, here. And speaking of opera, Tim Diovanni reports on a session about three operas by…

  • Monday Link Round Up: March 19, 2018

    News to start your week! The March 8 concert performed by the BBC Orchestra —Music by five forgotten women — is available online until April 7!  We’d like to invite critical engagement with the music revealed by this important event!  We ask readers to submit their reviews (750 to 1500 words) of the concert to…

  • Monday Link Round Up: March 12, 2018

    News to start your week! So much is happening! Last week we celebrated International Women’s Day, and it was exciting to see how much attention was paid to women’s achievements in classical music: Oxford University Press’s blog lists Seven Women you may not know from music history – beginning with Kassia. University of Texas Butler…

  • International Women’s Day 2018

    In the past few years the enthusiasm and programming surrounding March 8 has expanded in exciting ways.  No doubt due to the response to #MeToo, #TimesUp, and #NeverAgain movements, the plans for this year’s International Women’s Day have felt even more exciting.  The theme this year is #PressforProgress – and there is already plenty of…