Category: composers
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WPA News Digest – December 16, 2024
It’s an exciting time for women in classical music! Here’s this week’s update! Jessica Joy Harned has recently released her theatrical orchestra experience Classical Queens: Our Time, deriving from Harned’s original research project-turned-podcast Classical Queens. Harned describes the show as: “the story of two black women who have become tired of the experiences that they…
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WPA News Digest – December 9, 2024
There’s lots to celebrate as we prepare for the winter holidays! Videmus Inc., via a new arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, is publishing editions of composer Julia Perry‘s previously-unpublished music. The Estate of Julia A. Perry (which had to be established as a legal entity) assigned copyrights for her unpublished work to Videmus Inc. in…
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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.…