Feminist in the Concert Hall
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...
Monday Link Round Up: March 22, 2021
News and music to start your week! Congratulations continue to pour in for Ethel Smyth's first-ever Grammy, thanks to the recording by James Blachly and The Experiential Orchestra! This crowdfunded CD, which WPA was proud to help support, has been praised since its...
Monday Link Round Up March 15, 2021
We start with some BIG NEWS! Dame Ethel Smyth's "The Prison" has become the first work by a historic woman composer to win a Grammy Award. Smyth: The Prison, with soloists soprano Sarah Brailey and bass-baritone Dashon Burton, and the Experiential Orchestra and Chorus...
A Composer Joins the Zoom Call
Music educator Miriam Capellan returns (her previous blog is here) with a vivid account of special day in the life (pandemic version) of a primary level music teacher. The new work being rehearsed can be heard in performance Saturday March 13, 2021 (links below)...