Category: composers
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WPA News Digest – October 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 an Abolitionist by composer Allison Lovejoy. The oratorio honors Lovejoy’s ancestor…
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WPA News Digest — October 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, the orchestra promotes Western classical music by Turkish composers, Turkish classical music, and Turkish contemporary music in…
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WPA News Digest – October 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 it’s been featured in the News Digest in July. Her work Soul Force appeared…
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Composers to Discover! and BOTD: Zenobia Powell Perry (1908-2004)
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 was born on this day in 1908 (probably). She died in 2004. Perry was her married…