Feminist in the Concert Hall
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...
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,...
Composers You Should Know: Galina Ustvolskaya
Saturday, June 17, would have been the 98th birthday of Russian composer Galina Ustvolskaya (1919-2006). Ustvolskaya studied at the Leningrad Conservatory and was a pupil of Shostakovich who was a champion for her works, even though her style evolved to be distinctly...
Monday Link Round Up: June 12, 2017
News to start your week! Melanie Zeck, music librarian and historian at the Center for Black Music Research in Chicago, writes fro The Francisco Chronicle exploring the music of the African diaspora. Learn more about William Grant Still, Joseph Bologne ("Le...
The Dream Unfinished Continues the Conversation
We've been following the work of The Dream Unfinished since it was first organized as an activist orchestra in conjunction with the Black Lives Matter movement. Since their first concert this ensemble has worked to use their voices to raise awareness to issues of...
Proms 2017 – By the Numbers
It’s once again Proms Season! And that means it’s time once again to look at representation. There have already been conversations about certain lacking aspects - not only the lack of women composers, but the overall lack of representation of people (including...