Women's Philharmonic Advocacy

Author: sarah

  • Great Works This Weekend

    There are great concerts to look forward to this weekend from several WPA Performance Grant winners!   The Denver Young Artists Orchestra will be hosting a Women in Music Symposium at the Lamont School of Music on October 7 & 8.  There will be concerts, conversations, and discussions about the history and continuing challenges facing…

  • Monday Link Round Up: October 2, 2017

    News to start your week! It was great to see an article in the Huffington Post about Orchestra Moderne – a new ensemble based in NYC led by conductor Amy Andersson.  The ensemble is committed to performing a diverse range of works, especially focusing on works by women and people of color.  Their inaugural concert, on…

  • Monday Link Round Up: September 25, 2017

    News to start your week! The WQXR blog talks with JoAnn Falletta, conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic and Virginia Symphony, about why it seems that professional orchestras actually play behind the conducted beat.  Read more here. In more conducting news, NPR’s Scott Simon sat in on a conducting class at The Peabody Institute taught by…

  • Stockton Symphony Plays Thea Musgrave

    The Stockton Symphony is opening their 2017-2018 season on Saturday, September 23 with a great, and inclusive, program.  In addition to Tchaikovsky Brahms, and Berlioz, conductor Peter Jaffe has chosen to include Rainbow (1990) by Thea Musgrave.   Musgrave, who will be celebrating her 90th birthday in May, 2018, was born in Scotland but has lived and worked in…