Feminist in the Concert Hall
WPA 2012 Performance Grants
Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy Awards over $18,000 in First Ever Performance Grants (2012) (Click here for list of 2012 winners) (Waltham, MA, Nov. 26, 2012) Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy (WPA) announced today the recipients of its inaugural Performance Grants,...
The Performance: Beach’s Concerto Comes to Life!
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in area premiere of rare, remarkable Concerto. [update added at end after hearing second performance] Amy Beach was 33 years old when she gave the premiere performance of her own Piano Concerto (op. 45 in C-Sharp Minor) in April 1900....
Beach’s Concerto Comes to Life!
It's one thing to know a piece from recordings and quite another to hear it come to life in performance. For a deepened understanding of Amy Beach's Piano Concerto, it helps to be familiar with the three songs that she drew on for themes. These are her own songs that...
Nancy Reich Honored with AMY Award
Ossining, NY -- Sept. 20. 2012 As President of Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy, I am proud to grant the AMY Award for Lifetime achievement in Music Scholarship to Dr. Nancy B. Reich. Her book, Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman (1985; rev. ed. 2001), was the first...
The Long, LONG Arc of History
With the debut of Margaret Ruthven Lang's Dramatic Overture in 1893, the world changed: never before had an orchestral work composed by a woman been performed on the American stage. The intervening 119 years have brought monumental social change, much of it due to...
The 1.7 Percent: Distilling the 2008-2009 Repertoire Reports
Stories about “the 1%” abound in the media, but today I would like to shine a light on a far less reported, though far more relevant for this site's purposes, statistic: the 1.7%. Our own Sarah Baer crunched the numbers (provided by the League of American Orchestras)...