Feminist in the Concert Hall
Monday Link Round Up: November 23, 2015
Some news to start your week! It was announced earlier this year that the coming Cabrillo Festival will be Marin Alsop's last. NewMusicBox has a great piece on how the festival has evolved during Alsop's tenure - read more here. The Meet the Composer...
Our Performance Grants are on hold 🙁
Like so much in this time of the Corona Virus, our Performance Grants are currently on hold. Here are our 2019 Grant Winners! Read About Our 2018 Grant Winners! Learn about our 2015, 2016, and 2017 Performance Grant winners.
Are women composers STILL excluded from orchestral programming?
A look at U.S. data: Our take on the 2016-2017 Season 2015-16 data gathered by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Our take on the 2015-16 Season 2014-15 data gathered by the Baltimore SO 2010-2011 – 2009-2010 – 2008-2009
Celebrating Amy Beach
Celebrate the Great American Composer and Pianist! Please Visit our dedicated Amy Beach page at https://www.amybeach.org/ https://www.amybeach.org/
Xian Zhang Wins New Jersey Podium
The New Jersey Symphony has named Xian Zhang as their 14th Music Director. The Chinese American conductor is well known - and well regarded - throughout the United States and around the globe. She was appointed the Assistant Conductor of the New York Philharmonic in...
No Excuses Project
We are thrilled for the continued success - and social activism through music - of WPA Board Member, composer, conductor, and educator Kathleen McGuire. We wrote last year about the premieres and acclaim that her collaborative project Street Requiem received in...