Feminist in the Concert Hall
Monday Link Round Up: April 2, 2018
News to start your week! The Women Composers Festival of Hartford is getting ready to kick off this weekend! Learn more about this exciting and engaging weekend on their website - including lectures, premieres, and many, many hours of music! Jessie Rosen, President...
Monday Link Round Up: March 26, 2018
News to start your week! OPERA America has announced recipients for their Grants for Female Composers initiative for 2018. Eight women composers have received funds to support operas currently in development. Read more about the winners, and the forthcoming works,...
the 44th Annual SAM Conference (part 1): Three Operas
Our reporter Tim Diovanni continues his report from the Society for American Music 44th Annual Conference. (Read his Introduction here) Operas by Beach, Smyth, and Higdon: Compelling Opportunities for Diversification In this first installment of the series, I...
Monday Link Round Up: March 19, 2018
News to start your week! The March 8 concert performed by the BBC Orchestra --Music by five forgotten women -- is available online until April 7! We'd like to invite critical engagement with the music revealed by this important event! We ask readers to submit their...
Finding Solutions: on the 44th Annual Society for American Music Conference (Intro)
Timothy Diovanni attended a recent scholarly conference, and came away with much to say about the practical value of what he heard, value in the ongoing discussion over the need to diversify the classical canon. Here is the first of his installments in an engaging...
Monday Link Round Up: March 12, 2018
News to start your week! So much is happening! Last week we celebrated International Women's Day, and it was exciting to see how much attention was paid to women's achievements in classical music: Oxford University Press's blog lists Seven Women you may not know from...