Women's Philharmonic Advocacy

Author: sarah

  • Monday Link Round Up: June 26, 2017

    News to start your week!   The Music Critics Association of North America has named composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek’s new opera, Breaking the Waves, the first winner of a new award for Best New Opera in North America.  Read more at Classical Voice North America.   Congratulations to Lidiya Yankovskaya who was just named the…

  • Composers You Should Know: Ruth Shaw Wylie

    Saturday, June 24, is the 101st birthday of American composer and music educator Ruth Shaw Wylie (1916-1989).   Born in Ohio, Wylie grew up in Detroit and considered herself to be, “a fairly typical Midwestern composer”.  After earning her PhD in composition at Eastman School of Music she taught composition and music theory at the…

  • Monday Link Round Up: June 19, 2017

    News to start your week!   Opera5, a Canadian opera company which is based in Toronto, will be presenting two works by Ethel Smyth – Fête Galante and The Boatswain’s Mate – June 22 through the 25th.  Smyth is remembered for her work as a suffragette as well as her work as a composer, and her political…

  • Celebrating Pride in San Francisco

    June is LGBTQ Pride Month, and what better way to celebrate than with an excellent concert from an important community organization? The Bay Area Rainbow Symphony, a non-profit organization in San Francisco dedicated to “promoting and supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer identified (LGBTQ) musicians and composers toward the goal of broad crossover appeal and…