Feminist in the Concert Hall
Monday Link Round Up: April 19, 2021
News and music to start your week! Congratulations to Sherri Chung, pictured above, the first Asian-American woman to compose the music for an hour-long network drama. Listen in to her scores on the new series, "Kung Fu" (a "reimagining of the 1970s classic") and...
Monday Link Round Up: April 12, 2021
News and music to start your week! Read about the Sister Cities Girlchoir and their work with composer Erin Busch, pictured above, to educate and inspire. Busch, who is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, is dedicated to the education of women...
We Hold On To Women’s Music History By A Thin, Fraying Thread
By Mary Purpura Previously we posted Mary Purpura's moving account of the work of The Women's Philharmonic. Today we continue her consideration of the obstacles that remain to bringing women's compositions into the mainstream. These essays are drawn from Mary's 2016...
Monday Link Round Up – April 5, 2021
Music and news to start your week! Frank Oteri speaks to composer Pamela Z, pictured above, about her beginnings as a singer songwriter and development into an experimental composer. Listen to the interview, and read along at NewMusicBox where you can also hear some...
A Great Composer responds to the pandemic. Fanny Mendelssohn in 1831
This blog post of May 17, 2020 was one of our most popular of last year, and as we passed the one-year anniversary of the shutdowns and quarantines in response to Covid-19, it is worthwhile to recall Fanny Mendelssohn's response to the frightening pandemic of 190...
Monday Link Round Up – March 29, 2021
News and music to start your week! Arizona State University is in the news for their new Black Women Composers Project. Lorrie McAllister, associate university librarian of collections and analysis at ASU library says: The Black Women Composers Project is...