Feminist in the Concert Hall
Remembering Kendra Preston Leonard
We at WPA are mourning the loss of Dr. Kendra Preston Leonard - a musicologist as well as a lyricist, poet, and a champion for women's work in music. Over the years Dr. Leonard has contributed several guest posts on our blog, primarily focused on her work documenting...
WPA News Digest – August 31, 2026
By Kathleen McGowan with contributions from Liane Curtis After lingering in historical obscurity for far too long, composer Yvonne Loriod’s (1924 – 2010) highly expressive orchestral music will finally get a contemporary hearing, performed by the WDR...
WPA News – August 24, 2026
By Kathleen McGowan Exciting news and exciting listening! On August 20, the Royal Philharmonic Society announced the recipients of its Ambache fund, grants for supporting the work of promoting historical women composers. For many years the Ambache Charitable Trust...
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...