Category: composers
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WPA News Digest – November 25, 2024
2024 is wrapping up with plenty of chances to hear music by women composers! On November 24th, Imogen Holst‘s Concerto for Violin and Strings (1935) received its first public performance at St Andrew’s Holborn in London by the Elgar Sinfonia of London alongside music by Sir Edward Elgar and Gerald Finzi. This premiere took place ninety years…
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Maria Theresia Paradis — Conference continues Live and Online
The Conference on Maria Theresia Paradis continues Saturday Nov. 23 — in person AND streaming at Mount Holyoke College. Titled: Reframing the Gaze: Maria Theresia Paradis, Blind Musicians, and Musical Culture Before & After Braille. Held on November 22-23, the event hosts papers and concerts, including a Schulkonzert – a reconstruction of one of Paradis’s…
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WPA News Digest – November 18, 2024
There’s lots going on for women in music this week! On November 10, 2024 the Cleveland Women’s Orchestra opened its 90th anniversary season with a program of 19th century favorites: the overture from the Verdi/Solera collaboration Giovanna D’arco (Joan of Arc), Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in D, and Brahms Symphony No. 4. Founded in 1935 as one of…
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WPA News Digest — November 11, 2024
Lots to celebrate for women in music! FIRST — our revised Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy Grant program is finally unveiled! Read all about it!! Learn more here! The Grants are now being offered every other month, with the first deadline December 9, 2024. The International Alliance for Women in Music announced the winners of its annual…