Feminist in the Concert Hall
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)...
Monday Link Round Up – March 8, 2021
News and music to start your week! Happy International Women's Day! Check out this post for the ways we've found you can listen to works by women composers (as well as learn about them) throughout today! Great news from BBC Radio 3 which has announced funding to...
International Women’s Day Events 2021
March 8 is International Women's Day - and one of the few days of the year that those of us who seek out music by women composers have an abundance of choice. Listen in to the different offerings that we have found: Renowned scholar and pianist Dr. Samantha Ege,...