Feminist in the Concert Hall
Conferences, concerts as eventful Women’s History month is launched
March is always busy, and this one is especially so! Feb. 29 (Leap day!) we have a concert by the Bay Area Rainbow Symphony featuring the he West Coast premiere of Ethel Smyth's Overture to her opera The Boatswain's Mate. This overture includes Smyth's famous anthem,...
Monday Link Round Up: February 24, 2020
News and music to start your week! The Seattle Times introduces readers to Lina Gonzalez-Granados (pictured above) - one of the first Latin American women to hold a conducting position with the Seattle Symphony. BTW, Gonzalez-Granados' Boston-based Unitas Ensemble...
Remembering a pioneering scholar of women in music, Dr. Karin Pendle
In the past few years, so many have "discovered" the issue of women composers and gender in classical music. That is -- for the most part -- great! But sometimes it does seem like we keep on "re-inventing the wheel." If instead we recognized and built on the work...
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...