Feminist in the Concert Hall
Monday Link Round Up: August 20, 2018
News and music to start your week! The Philadelphia Orchestra is collaborating with American Composers Orchestra to offer a closed reading session for six up-and-coming women composers. Though not open to the public, the ensemble will perform and critique each work...
Beach’s Bal Masqué in Boston Performance
Update: concert postponed to Aug. 23 because of rain. Amy Beach's delightful waltz, Bal Masqué, op. 22, is part of this week's concert by Boston's Landmark Orchestra. Titled "Symphonic Dances" the Aug. 22 event features "music to move by" with professional and...
Monday Link Round Up: August 13, 2018
News and music to start your week! Hugely important piece by composer and musician Elizabeth Baker at New Music Box. In part: The problem continues when organizations promote “diversity initiatives” using only images of cisgender white women. What these actions and...
Monday Link Round Up: August 6, 2018
News to start your week! What better way to tackle the new week than a fantastic conversation? Elizabeth Blair speaks with Emily Doolittle in the most recent episode of Listening to Ladies. Learn more at the website, with lots of links and music, stream the episode...
Monday Link Round Up: July 30, 2018
News and music to start your week! A fascinating article by composer Jenny Giering who compares her own experiences with visions she experienced with migraines and the visions described by Abbess Hildegard von Bingen as she received music and instruction. It is...
A View from Germany: Classical Music is so Sexist
Inge Kloepfer's striking article "So sexistisch ist die Klassik -- Classical Music is So Sexist" appeared on June 13, 2018 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. We wanted English-speaking readers to be able to read this important journalism, so we asked Elizabeth...