Feminist in the Concert Hall
Monday Link Round Up: June 22, 2020
News and music to start your week! TODAY we celebrate the publication of the long-awaited The Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price, by Dr. Rae Linda Brown, from the University of Illinois Press. (June 22 is listed by Amazon as the publication...
Monday Link Round Up: June 15, 2020
News and music to start the week. In the continued protests, and continued attacks by police on peaceful protesters, we are heartened by the reactions from musicians, and music scholars, in working towards a more just society. One of the standouts from the past week...
Monday Link Round Up: June 8, 2020
News and music - and social justice - to start your week. We at Women's Philharmonic Advocacy stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter community in striving for justice. Today we will focus on some of the conversations that musicians have been having regarding...
Monday Link Round Up: June 1, 2020
It's been an unbelievably difficult week for BIPOC (black, indigenous, and people of color) and allies. We at WPA stand with you in the fight for justice. Though not outwardly stated by NPR, I suspect there's little coincidence that they featured Lara Downes' Tiny...
TBT: A conversation with JoAnn Falletta, 1991
We are so excited to share this archived broadcast (from KPFK's Pacifica Radio, 1991, 2 hours in length) that features an interview with Maestro JoAnn Falletta from 1991. The Women's Philharmonic (still known as The Bay Area Women's Philharmonic) had just released...
Monday Link Round Up: May 25, 2020
News and music to start your week! The New York Times introduced readers this week to the Iranian Female Composers Association, members of which are included above (from left: Anahita Abbasi, Aida Shirazi, and Niloufar Nourbakhsh). Learn about this wonderful...