Feminist in the Concert Hall
Monday Link Round Up: February 17, 2020
News and music to start your week! Huge congratulations to Hildur Guðnadóttir, pictured above, the first woman to ever win an Oscar for a dramatic score. Now learn more about her, and listen in to more works! Pitchfork offers a great place to start! The Seattle...
Ruth Crawford Seeger’s Andante for Strings — and a problematic publisher
Welcome to our Guest-blogger, Ian Sewell, a PhD Student in Music Theory at Columbia University. We thank him for sharing his experience about one of the 20th-century's best- known works -- and the difficulty in making an accurate and scholarly edition of that work...
Monday Link Round Up: February 10, 2020
News and music to start your week! The New York Philharmonic is commissioning 19 new works by women composers in honor of the 100th anniversary of Women's Suffrage. Read more about the project, titled simply Project 19, on the New York Philharmonic's website or at...
Monday Link Round Up: February 3, 2020
News and music to start your week! Congratulations go to Jennifer Higdon, pictured, for winning the Grammy for Best contemporary classical compositions for her Harp Concerto. Caroline Shaw also won the Grammy for Best Chamber Music Performance for her piece,...
TBT: 1996 — TWP Performs (and records) Chen Yi
In celebration of Chinese New Year, we'd like to recall composer Chen Yi's marvelous work with The Women's Philharmonic. In the mid-1990s, Chen Yi served as composer-in-residence for The Women's Philharmonic (TWP). This role culminated in 1996 with the beautiful CD...
Monday Link Round Up: January 27, 2020
Music and news to start your week! For the first time ever, the orchestra of the Academy Awards Ceremony (the Oscars, Feb. 9) will be led by a woman. Congratulations go to Irish conductor Eímear Noone, pictured above, who will lead excerpts from the films nominated...