Feminist in the Concert Hall
Monday Link Round Up: October 14, 2019
News and music to start your week! Contemporary Musical Theatre interviews composer Georgia Stitt. The focus is the organization Maestra Music which Stitt founded "to give support, visibility, and community to the women who make the music in the musical theater...
Monday Link Round Up: October 7, 2019
News and music to start your week! Music Specialist Susan Clermont, at the Library of Congress, wrote a post for the LOC blog "In the Muse" to celebrate the life and work of Barabara Strozzi, pictured above. The Baroque era composer and singer published over 7 books...
Monday Link Round Up: September 30, 2019
News and music to start your week! The Philadelphia Orchestra has announced that they have discovered letters from Clara Schumann in their archives! This is just after Clara's 200th birthday celebration in which many world-famous ensembles spoke about her...
Featured Guest Blogger: Quinn Mason on Diversity in Music
We found Quinn Mason's Youtube channel devoted to women conductors some months ago. This is truly an amazing channel, featuring more than 150 recordings of ensembles led by 50+ different women conductors, representing a different range of backgrounds, ages and...
Monday Link Round Up: September 23, 2019
News and music to start your week! History was made at the Philadelphia Orchestra when they performed Umoja by Valerie Coleman - the first classical work by a living African American woman that they have every performed. Read more at The Philadelphia Inquirer. After...
Monday Link Round Up: September 16, 2019
News and music to start the week! There was a lot of coverage of Clara Schumann's 200th Birthday on Friday! Read more through the Library of Congress blog, from Isata Kanneh-Mason (who recently recorded Clara's works for piano) at The Guardian, find a thorough...