Feminist in the Concert Hall
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 -...
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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...
Monday Link Round Up: November 30, 2020
News and music to start the week! NewMusicBox spoke to composer and flautist Valerie Coleman (pictured) about her work. She is one of the eight American composers participating in the New Music USA's Amplifying Voices program - commissioning new works by composers of...
Monday Link Round Up: November 23, 2020
News and music to start your week! Ellen Taylor writes for Voice about what she learned after a presentation about Black classical music by pianist and musicologist Dr. Samantha Ege, pictured above. Dr. Ege is a particular champion of the works of Florence Price,...
Monday Link Round Up: November 16, 2020
News and music to start your week! Congratulations go to Grace Moore, pictured below, who had her work premiered by members of the New York Philharmonic as part of their Very Young Composers program. Moore, who was born in Brooklyn, said that her work was inspired in...
Monday Link Round Up: November 9, 2020
Some news and music to start your week! The Handel and Haydn Society of Boston featured a concert yesterday of works by women composers in honor of the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment. The Boston Music Intelligencer wrote about what the audience could expect,...