Feminist in the Concert Hall
WPA News Digest – September 9, 2024
Our big news this week is the Seattle Symphony's announcement that Xian Zhang will be its next music director beginning in the 2025/26 season! This appointment distinguishes her as the first woman conductor to head a major orchestra on the US West Coast. Zhang will...
Happy 157th Birthday, Amy Beach!
September 5 -- Happy Birthday, Amy Beach -- We are proud to be making much of her music available in our carefully edited and reasonably priced editions! and TBT -- 7 years since this wonderful article in the NY Times, to celebrate her 150th!! Much has happened...
WPA News Digest – September 2, 2024
As summer ends and fall educational and concert activities ramp back up, a lot of exciting news! From Sept. 15 - 18, The Buffalo Philharmonic and the International Conductors Guild will host a workshop for eight women conductors in Buffalo, New York. The four-day...
WPA News Digest – August 26, 2024
Exciting news this week!! Errollyn Wallen has been appointed Master of the King's Music by King Charles! The Belize-born British composer and performer is the first black woman to be appointed to this position. She will succeed Dame Judith Weir, who was appointed...
WPA News Digest – August 19, 2024
Here's some news to start your week! In July, 2024 the all-female Firdaus Orchestra of Dubai performed for two days as part of the multi-day wedding celebration of Radhika Merchant and Anant Ambani, son of Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani. The festivities were a...
Listen to this! Farrenc Symphony n. 3 streams!
We know Louise Farrenc is one of our favorite composers, and one we discuss frequently, but still it is not often that a major US orchestra performs her work AND makes it available in a streaming format! The American Symphony Orchestra, directed by Leon Botstein,...