WPA News Digest – February 17, 2025

by Kathleen McGowan | Feb 17, 2025

Let’s get your week going with some news! On February 14, the American Composers Orchestra (ACO) and the American Composers Forum (ACF) announced the inaugural recipient of their new Sorel Fellowship, in honor of pianist, educator, and philanthropist Claudette...

New York Youth Symphony Album nominated for Grammy!

by Liane Curtis | Nov 28, 2022

GREAT NEWS!  A groundbreaking project is receiving deserved recognition!  The New York Youth Symphony turned the limitations of the pandemic — musicians all in lockdown — into an opportunity to record a new CD, which was released in spring of 2022.  This...

Joan Tower Honored by League of American Orchestras

by sarah | Jun 2, 2019

Congratulations to Joan Tower who will be awarded the Golden Baton at this year’s League of American Orchestras Conference in Nashville, TN (June 3-5)!  The Golden Baton is organization’s highest honor. One of Tower’s most well known works, Made in...

A musical “blind taste-test” casts light on the biased processes of Canon-formation

by Liane Curtis | Oct 14, 2018

Salastina Music Society carried out a remarkably original experiment last weekend (Oct. 6 & 7) – raising issues of how and why some works get into the classical music canon – and some works don’t.  Salastina’s two directors were struck by a certain...

Monday Link Round Up: June 11, 2018

by sarah | Jun 11, 2018

News and music to start your week! The Library of Congress blog, In the Muse, highlights Women Composers Hiding in Plain Sight. Written by Music Reference Specialist Melissa E. Wertheimer, she discusses a fantastic photograph she found, and the backstory she...

A Nobel Honor for Amy Beach

by Liane Curtis | Dec 9, 2017

We are thrilled that the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Joana Carneiro, will be performing second movement, Alla Siciliana of Amy Beach’s “Gaelic” Symphony in E minor, Op. 32 (Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy Publications’ revised...