Feminist in the Concert Hall
WPA News Digest – February 23, 2026
There's lots to listen to this week as we gear up for Women's History Month! Beginning on February 27th and running through March 1st, Tempesta di Mare will present its recital of Italian women’s music from the Baroque era at venues in the Philadelphia area, including...
NEWS: We Publish Helen Hagan’s Piano Concerto!
We’ve been remiss in celebrating Black History Month, but now we are ready to CELEBRATE!!! One of our big projects of 2025 was working with the Estate of Helen Hagan so that we could publish her 1912 Concerto in C minor! And this year we have the joyful project of...
WPA News Digest – February 16, 2026
More exciting news this week! On February 22, composer Stefania Turkevych will have the US premiere of two movements from her Symphony n. 1 (1937) by the Binghamton (NY) Community Orchestra. Turkevych (1898-1977) is Ukraine's earliest known female classical composer,...
WPA News Digest – February 9, 2026
There's lots to listen to in February! Olga Neuwirth's new opera Monster's Paradise had its world premiere in Hamburg on February 1. Neuwirth, as described in The New York Times, "has spent her career composing music seeped in the fractious absurdity of contemporary...
Germaine Tailleferre: Critics, Historians, and her Reception
Happy TBT! (Throwback Thursday) We originally published this blog post in October 2017. Since it is frequently cited, we would like to foreground it again -- ALSO -- we still haven't noticed Tailleferre's Le Marchand d'oiseaux being performed anywhere! (Do correct...
WPA News Digest – February 2, 2026
There's a lot to listen to as we enter February 2026! On January 26th, Bachtrack released its classical music stats for 2025. They have named Anna Clyne and Caroline Shaw as two of the top 10 most-performed composers of 2025. The editors have noted that women...