Feminist in the Concert Hall
Joan Tower & Tania Léon in Conversation at LAO
By Chris A. Trotman, WPA's Director of Music Publications. Thank you to composer Dosia McKay (@dosiamckay) for sharing her photo of the event (Tower, left, and Léon) During the 2019 League of American Orchestras Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, I had the privilege...
Monday Link Round Up: June 17, 2019
Music and News to start your week! The New York Times profiled Alma Deutscher - violinist, pianist, and composer who has been putting the classical music world in awe since she was just 4 years old. Now 14, she's working on a retrospective album and also discusses...
Costa Rican orchestra features women composers
The Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional (OSN -- National Symphony Orchestra) of Costa Rica presents a tribute to women composers on June 14 and 16, 2019. The concert is conducted by Gabriela Mora Fallas (pictured left), returning for her second time to lead the orchestra; for...
Clara’s Schumannfest
The city of Bonn has hosted an annual Schumannfest since 1998 to celebrate the lives and music of two of the city's most famous residents: Robert Schumann and Ludwig van Beethoven. However, in 2007 the name of the festival changed from the Bonn Schumann Festival to...
Monday Link Round Up: June 10, 2019
News and music to start your week! Musicians in Bonn, Germany celebrated the 200th birthday of Clara Schumann with Schumannfest! The event, which runs from June 1 to June 16, will include works by many women composers, not just Clara. However, there will be a...
Monday Link Round Up: June 3, 2019
News and music to start your week! The exciting conference Women, Feminists, and Music: Transforming Tomorrow Today kicks off on Thursday, at Berklee College of Music in Boston. The conference brings together the International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) and...