The Handel and Haydn Society – the oldest continually performing arts organization in the U.S. – is celebrating their bicentennial this year. Founded in Boston in 1815, the chorus has made important U.S. premieres of works by the “great...
The Smithsonian Institution has partnered with Sheet Music Plus to offer digitized works from the archives. They chose 400 titles from the Sam DeVincent Collection of illustrated sheet music. The sale of these digital downloads, the collection of which is largely...
The list of 2015 Grammy nominations has been published – and Anna Clyne’s Prince of Clouds is in the running for Contemporary Classical Composition. Her work shares the ballot with John Luther Adams (Become Ocean), George Crumb (Voices From The...
Tuesday’s broadcast of The Colin McEnroe Show, which broadcasts out of WNPR in Connecticut, featured a conversation with contemporary women composers. The show, inspired by the upcoming documentary, “Written by Mrs. Bach”, was (woefully) titled...
In light of the Mrs. Bach controversy (which is still ruffling feathers…) the BBC has put together a list of 10 women who”changed music”. Check it out here. The usual suspects are on the list – which raises the question, who would you add?...
Next up in our collection of suggestions for repertoire that would be perfect for a performance supported by the Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy Performance Grants, is the work of Florence Price. Price was a prolific composer whose works ranged from spirituals to...
