Feminist in the Concert Hall
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...
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...