Feminist in the Concert Hall
Juilliard’s 2020 Focus festival – Trailblazers: Women Composers of the 20th Century
We are welcoming composer, pianist and soprano Tamara Cashour to our blog as our New York City-based correspondent. Tamara sends her first installment: In 2020, Juilliard continues to ride the crest of the Zeitgeist by presenting an all-women composer concert...
Monday Link Round Up: January 20, 2020
News and Music to start your week! Wishing everyone a meaningful and reflective Martin Luther King, Jr. Day! Celebrate by listing in to DiscoverClassical.com which features a day of music programming by Black composers - including works by Florence Price and...
TBT — The Women’s Phil as an American Orchestra (1999)
An article published by New Music Box on Sept. 1, 1999, celebrates The Women's Philharmonic as one of twenty orchestras that are making a special commitment to new American music. Author Andrew Druckenbrod notes that TWP ... has commissioned 35 works since its first...
Monday Link Round Up: January 13, 2020
News and music to start your week! Jessie Montgomery, pictured above, is profiled by Angela Allen, about diving into the world of opera. Read more at Classical Voices in America. The Daffodil Perspective has a list of 10 ways to make classical music more accessible....
Congratulations to the 2019 WPA Grant Winners!
The 2019 WPA Performance Grant cycle was our most exciting - and most challenging - so far! We had a record breaking 92 applicants and all of the judges were impressed with the variety of engaging programs that are planned for the coming years! Unfortunately,...
Monday Link Round Up: January 6, 2020
News and music to start your week! What better way to start off the new year than with Musicology Duck's Listen Wider Challenge! The goal is to encourage music enthusiasts to move out of their comfort zone and expand their playlists to include a wider variety of...