Feminist in the Concert Hall
Monday Link Round Up: August 17, 2020
News and music to start your week! A lot to celebrate! August 18th marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment, granting U.S. women the right to Vote! Our illustration is from the Music in the Women's Suffrage Movement article of the Library...
The Heart of A Woman: A Review
By Sarah Baer The recent publication of Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price marks a bittersweet celebration. This definitive biography of Price, long awaited, is an invaluable addition to the field of feminist musicology, and joins the...
Monday Link Round Up: August 10, 2020
News and music to start your week! We are saddened to hear about the death of Helen Jones Woods - a trombonist who performed with the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, an interracial all-female Big Band that toured widely during WWII. Jones, pictured above, was 96...
Monday Link Round Up: August 3, 2020
News and music to start your week! Congratulations go to Rhiannon Giddens - a trained opera singer, virtuoso fiddler and banjo player, founding member of The Carolina Chocolate Drops, MacArthur Genius grant winner, and composer who is pictured above. Giddens was just...
Monday Link Round Up: July 27, 2020
News and music to start your week! Calling young women composers! Pamela Z, pictured above, will be presenting on her compositional process TODAY, July 27 at 5pm EST, in a free presentation on the Young Women Composers workshop series. Gabriela Lena Frank will be...
The Music of the Remarkable Mrs. Sirmen
We apologise for taking so long to get back to Part II of our post about composer and violinist Maddalena Laura Lombardini Sirmen (1745-1818). Part I, about her life, is found here. Our guest author is the London-based musician Martin Ash, whose website is...