Feminist in the Concert Hall
500+ Operas by Women: Perform one today!
[note: latest version of the opera database, March 2022, is here https://wophil.org/500ops/ ] Women's Philharmonic Advocacy is happy to unveil our newly-updated database of 500+ Operas by Women! We invited Dr. Penny Brandt (one of the two noted scholars who worked on...
Monday Link Round Up: July 15, 2019
News and music to start your week! In case you missed it, don't miss reading Megan Lavengood's excellent piece on gender and hiring as it relates to the field of Music Theory Andrew Clements reviews the new recording by Isata Kanneh-Mason (pictured) of piano works by...
Monday Link Round Up: July 8, 2019
News and music to start your week! Congratulations to Akiko Fujimoto (pictured above), the first woman to be named Artistic Director of the Mid-Texas Symphony. Last season the ensemble had a public audition process to find the new director, with four finalists each...
Monday Link Round Up: July 1, 2019
News and music to start your week! Jessica Duchen of The JC has the story of Erika Fox, a composer born in Vienna in 1936 who now at age 82 is celebrating the release of the first album of her compositions. The CD features chamber pieces spanning a 25-year period...
BBC Proms 2019: By the Numbers
Much has already been noted about the coming performances in the 2019 Proms Season - and the lack of women composers being represented. Editorials appeared in The Guardian shortly after the 2019 Program was announced noting specifically that while the number of women...
Monday Link Round Up: June 24, 2019
News and music to start your week! Marin Alsop has started a fellowship for women conductors to help encourage the number of women entering the field. She was interviewed by the New York Times about this new project, her career until this point, and the hurdles that...