Feminist in the Concert Hall
Monday Link Round Up: September 21, 2020
News and music to start your week! We are mourning the loss of Ruth Bader Ginsburg - one of the greatest legal minds and champions for equality in American history. Let us remember her life and work, and recommit to carry on in the fight for equality and democracy in...
Monday Link Round Up: September 14, 2020
News and music to start your week! Tune into NPR's Morning Edition for a conversation with Amanda Jones, pictured above, who just became the first African American woman to earn an Emmy nomination for original television score. She is a singer and songwriter as well...
Monday Link Roundup: September 7, 2020
Happy Labor Day to everyone in the United States! We are reminded, on this day of rest, of the work that still needs to be done for racial equality. We missed this article in June, but it is just as relevant now. Conductor Jeri Lynne Johnson, pictured above, founder...
Monday Link Round Up: August 31, 2020
News and music to start the week! Sorry we didn't post about this sooner! The Dream Unfinished Activist Orchestra presents a live community reading of Fannie Lou Hamer's 1964 speech, "Sick and Tired," today, Monday, Aug. 31 at 11:30 AM EST! Sign-up is required. ...
Celebrating Undine Smith Moore
This week we are celebrating the birthday of American composer Undine Smith Moore. She was born August 25, 1904 and died February 6 1989. Considered the "Dean of Black Women Composers" she was in the generation that followed the groundbreaking work of Florence...
Monday Link Round Up: August 24, 2020
News and music to start your week! The Philadelphia Orchestra joins in the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the passing of the 19th amendment in the US. In a special conversation taking place on August 26, First Associate Concertmaster Juliette Kang, Composer...