Category: broadcasts
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Women Composers on NWPR
This Sunday, March 20, tune into Northwest Public Radio (NWPR) for a marathon of music by women composers. From 9pm to midnight (PST) you can hear the works of historic and contemporary women. The playlist is thanks to Classical Music host Gigi Yellen. You can read more about the music that will be broadcast…
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Sphinx Conference: Igniting Diversity in the Arts
We at WPA are often reflecting on how our goals of incorporating women into the classical canon are parallel to those who work for racial and ethnic diversity in the music world. Plus, Black History Month – February – is adjacent to Women’s History Month, and that connection is also something to be celebrated. So…
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Listen to FEMALE CONDUCTORS — a whole LOT of them!!
Back on Aug. 9, 2015, Jeremy Eichler (the Boston Globe’s classical music critic) annoyed me by repeatedly using male pronouns in an article about the art of conducting. True, the article’s focus was the Boston SO’s new(ish) music director Andris Nelsons, but I bristled and rolled my eyes reading sentences like “…players can size up…
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Iceland Symphony Orchestra Celebrates Women Composers
Iceland is celebrating the 100th anniversary of women’s right to vote – and in honor of the occasion the Iceland Symphony Orchestra presented a concert June 11 featuring the works of contemporary and historic women composers. The program, which was wonderfully titled “Titans and Trailblazers”, included works by Anna Thorvaldsdottir (who name also appears as Þorvaldsdóttir), who…