Feminist in the Concert Hall
Monday Link Round Up: December 28, 2020
News and music to start your week! Happy Christmas to all who celebrate! Enjoy this lovely Christmas Prelude for Chamber Orchestra by Vítězslava Kaprálova, pictured above. It was composed in 1939 and broadcast as part of the Paris PTT Radio program "Noël à Prague,"...
Monday Link Round Up: December 21, 2020
News and music to start your week! The Orange County Women's Chorus, like so many ensembles this year, have found and exciting and innovative way to share their music this season. The Voice of OC has a story about how they collaborated to create a varied concert...
Ballet set to music of Ethel Smyth (streams Dec. 19 & 20)!
We were excited to learn that Ballet Co. Laboratory's big holiday production is The Snow Queen, set to music by Dame Ethel Smyth. Artistic Director Zoé Emilie Henrot sat down with Liane Curtis (WPA President) to talk about how she came to use Smyth's music, including...
Monday Link Round Up: December 14, 2020
News and music to start your week! Congratulations go to Nathalie Stutzmann, pictured above, who was just named principal guest conductor of The Philadelphia Orchestra. The three year contract will begin with the 2021-2022 season. The Philadelphia Inquirer has more....
Monday Link Round Up: December 7, 2020
News and music to start your week! Leah Broad writes for The Guardian about the importance in remembering all histories in the retelling of music history. She particularly champions the life of and work of Dame Ethel Smyth, pictured above, throughout her article -...
Support Our Work!
Women's Philharmonic Advocacy has launched our year-end fund-drive! Over the years we have worked to support orchestras in their efforts to program more works by women, and to bring these composers -- of all historic eras, and from a range of backgrounds -- into the...