Feminist in the Concert Hall
Monday Link Round Up: August 13, 2018
News and music to start your week! Hugely important piece by composer and musician Elizabeth Baker at New Music Box. In part: The problem continues when organizations promote “diversity initiatives” using only images of cisgender white women. What these actions and...
Monday Link Round Up: August 6, 2018
News to start your week! What better way to tackle the new week than a fantastic conversation? Elizabeth Blair speaks with Emily Doolittle in the most recent episode of Listening to Ladies. Learn more at the website, with lots of links and music, stream the episode...
Monday Link Round Up: July 30, 2018
News and music to start your week! A fascinating article by composer Jenny Giering who compares her own experiences with visions she experienced with migraines and the visions described by Abbess Hildegard von Bingen as she received music and instruction. It is...
A View from Germany: Classical Music is so Sexist
Inge Kloepfer's striking article "So sexistisch ist die Klassik -- Classical Music is So Sexist" appeared on June 13, 2018 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. We wanted English-speaking readers to be able to read this important journalism, so we asked Elizabeth...
Monday Link Round Up: July 23, 2018
News and music to start your week! Pianist and musicologist Samantha Ege writes at Sound Studies blog -- Sounding Out! -- about her recent performance at the Australian Gender Diversity in Making Music conference - where she (most probably) gave the Australian...
Monday Link Round Up: July 16, 2018
News and music to start your week! The 2018 BBC Proms are off and running (ICYMI here are the statistics of women's representation we put together). Anna Meredith had a piece presented at First Night at the Proms and spoke to Fiona Maddocks about her work. Read more...