Category: activism

  • Support Our Work!!

    Support Our Work!!

    We launched our “Giving Tuesday” fund-drive on our Substack account, and now bring it here as well, so everyone is reminded to donate, and has a chance to get our awesome thank you gifts! From: Dr. Liane Curtis, President, Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy Dear friend, We’re nearing the end of 2024 and we are still demanding equity…

  • WPA News Digest – December 2, 2024

    WPA News Digest – December 2, 2024

      There’s lots to be excited about for women in music as we kick off December! (Including a few gift ideas.) On Wednesday November 27, the Raices Negras Trio performed at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. The group featured three members of the larger Raíces Negras Collective (pictured left): Dr.…

  • WPA News Digest – September 30, 2024

    WPA News Digest – September 30, 2024

    Exciting News!! Composer Jeanine Tesori has become the first woman composer to open a season for the Metropolitan Opera in its 141 years of operation. Her opera Grounded was given a gala premiere, starring mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo on September 23,as announced in this Met Press Release.  The opera features a fighter pilot grappling with the…

  • WPA News Digest – August 19, 2024

    WPA News Digest – August 19, 2024

    Here’s some news to start your week! In July, 2024 the all-female Firdaus Orchestra of Dubai performed for two days as part of the multi-day wedding celebration of Radhika Merchant and Anant Ambani, son of Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani. The festivities were a particularly prestigious platform for the young orchestra, which was formed in October…