Feminist in the Concert Hall
Women Composers to Celebrate in 2018-2019
Classical music enthusiasts love to celebrate big years - and we certainly are no exception, as we celebrated Amy Beach’s 150th in 2017. In general we are in favor of any reason to have a party and spend some time immersed in great music. But it is only fair that...
Monday Link Round Up: February 5, 2018
News to start your week! Don't miss Alex Ross's piece on Florence Price in The New Yorker. He speaks of her "rediscovery", a coming premiere, and the attention that her music deserves, also mentioning Amy Beach "Gaelic" Symphony and William Dawson's "Negro Folk...
Monday Link Round Up: January 29, 2018
News to start your week! Very exciting! Congratulations to Jennifer Higdon on winning two Grammy Awards last night! Her Viola Concerto won "Best Contemporary Classical Composition" and she also brought home "Best Classical Compendium" for the recording of All...
Guest Blogger : “Feminist to the Core” offers new strategies for interpreting “La Bohème”
The main focus of "Feminist in the Concert Hall," and in fact our WPA website is to examine and draw attention to music composed by women (especially orchestral music), with the hopes that such works will be performed more often. Thus we seek to expand the canon. In...
Monday Link Round Up: January 22, 2018
News to start your week! There have been a number of articles lately about the canon and the so-called "Invisible Hand" that dictates what art is preserved and celebrated. Read Harvard Musicologist Anne Shreffler's thoughts here, and also a response to Shreffler's...
Monday Link Round Up: January 15, 2018
News to start your week! Celebrate the life and work of Martin Luther King, Jr. by reflecting on the progress that has been made by trailblazers - like Nkeiru Okoye's opera Harriet Tubman. (Thea Musgrave also turned to the life of Harriet Tubman for an...