by Kathleen McGowan | Nov 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....
by Kathleen McGowan | Oct 28, 2024
Lots of concerts in October and November have been/are featuring works by women composers! (We love to see it!) On November 3, 2024 the Golden Gate Symphony Orchestra & Chorus (San Francisco, USA) will perform the world premiere of Elijah’s Call: An Oratorio for...
by Kathleen McGowan | Oct 21, 2024
We’re here for another exciting week!! On Saturday October 26, the woman-founded Turkish American Orchestra (TAO) will give its debut performance in New York’s Symphony Space under the direction Nisan Ak. Cofounded by Ak and technology executive Ulku Rowe,...
by Kathleen McGowan | Oct 7, 2024
Marin Alsop and the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra have recently enjoyed a successful eleven-city tour of Japan. In addition to classics by Beethoven and Mozart, their program included Jessie Montgomery’s Strum—a work that might be familiar to WPA readers, as...
by Liane Curtis | Oct 3, 2024
Whaaaa??? Another composer named Perry? And also a long neglected African-American woman? In these pages you’ve read a lot about Julia Perry whose Centennial is being celebrated this year, but today let’s recognize another Perry! Zenobia Powell Perry...
by Kathleen McGowan | Sep 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...
