Feminist in the Concert Hall
WPA News Digest – August 17, 2026
By Kathleen McGowan Let's get your week off t an exciting start! On August 16, the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra will perform Anna Clyne's tone poem Masquerade (2013), under the baton of Marin Alsop. Alsop conducted the premiere of the work thirteen years ago with...
WPA News Digest – August 10, 2026
By Kathleen McGowan There's lots to listen to by women this week! On August 10 at the Tanglewood Festival's Seiji Ozawa Festival Hall, the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra will perform a concert celebrating American opera including arias from Gabriela Lena Frank's El...
ACSO2026
We are happy to be attending ACSO (Association of California Symphony Orchestras)! We prepared this two-page list of (most of) our music publications (PDF) And here are the slides that went with Liane's Flash Talk. And be sure to visit our Shop page where we sell...
Lessons for us all from Gabriela Lena Frank
We continue with part 2 of the series begun here with “Gabriella Lena Frank is having a long moment.” Attendees at next week's ACSO (Association of California Symphony Orchestras) conference will have the oportunity to hear Frank as Keynote speaker, as well as...
WPA News Digest – August 3, 2026
By Kathleen McGowan There's lots of music by women to listen to and read about this week! Before covering upcoming events this week, Katherine Needleman—professional oboist and principal of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; composer and improviser; writer and tireless...
WPA News Digest – July 27, 2026
By Kathleen McGowan On July 29, musicians of the Three Choirs Festival will perform at Gloucester Cathedral. Included in their performance are two pieces by Cecilia McDowall: the orchestral version premiere of her A Song for St. Cecilia and Rain, Steam, and Speed...