Feminist in the Concert Hall
WPA News Digest: June 10, 2024
Start your week with some news highlights! Four women composers had their work workshopped as part of an EarShot composer-orchestra networking program, June 4 -6, 2024. The collaboration included the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra (ROCO) and the American Composers...
Composers to Discover! Ida Moberg’s Transfiguration
We continue our series, Composers to Discover! featuring essays by students in the Public Musicology Certificate Program at Columbus State University. Violinist Samuel Vargas Teixeira has an international career as a performer and recently graduated from the Schwob...
WPA News Digest: June 3, 2024
On June 7–9, 2024 Melissa White (soloist, violin) and Carolyn Kuan (conductor) will appear with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra. They will close the orchestra’s 80th Masterworks Season with Carlos Simon’s Amen!, Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 26, and Holst’s...
Happy Birthday, Louise Farrenc!
We love Louise Farrenc and all her wonderful music! In honor of her birthday today, May 31, we are featuring a Youtube video introduction about Farrenc, recorded by Dr. Liane Curtis in 2021 and lightly edited for this re-release. This TIMELINE is referred to in...
By the Numbers: 2024-2025 Repertoire Report
By Sarah Baer Our favorite spring tradition at Women‘s Philharmonic Advocacy is collecting the season announcements from America‘s top orchestras. This process, which is always full of trepidation and hope as we gather data that indicates the direction of classical...
WPA News Digest: May, 27, 2024
The Orchestra Book Club of the greater Boston area will perform Grażyna Bacewicz’s Symphonic Variations and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini on May 27 at 3:00 PM as part of Arts at the Armory in Somerville, Massachusetts. The event is free and...