Feminist in the Concert Hall
Link Round-Up: July 19, 2022
The music of Dame Ethel Smyth continues to draw more performances and recognition. Liane Curtis attended the moving performance of Smyth’s opera “The Wreckers” at the renowned Glyndebourne Festival, and offered this review. Glyndebourne’s video of the production...
Link Roundup: July 12, 2022
We have news about women conductors this week!! At the Chicago Symphony, Apprentice Conductor Lina González-Granados stepped in for Ricardo Muti with a minute’s notice – (really!) exciting moments in the life of a young conductor, and she has earned acclaim all...
NEW! Composer of the Month: Cécile Chaminade
We are thrilled to launch a new Composer of the Month feature, authored by Elizabeth de Brito, a journalist and cultural activist for diversity in classical music as well as the producer of The Daffodil Perspective podcast/radio show. If you follow much social media...
U.S. Women Lose a Basic Right
By Liane Curtis We were hoping to resume our weekly link round-up and continue to bring you an assortment of news about women (especially composers) in the world of classical music. But on Friday, June 24, U.S. women were stripped of an important right, the right to...
How My Essay on Fullnaming Composers Melted the Internet (and other thoughts)
Our featured guest author Chris White teaches music theory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and writes for both the popular and academic press. We asked him to comment on the reaction to his important article of two years ago, and are thrilled to have this...
Celebrating Juneteenth!
We return refreshed from our blog hiatus to celebrate Juneteenth! Thank you so much to all our fans who missed us! A. Kori Hill’s recent article, “Florence Price, NANM, & Self-Determination: Making a way for Black classical artists in Jim Crow America” tells us so...