FAQs about our Grants: Can New Music Ensembles apply?
Here’s a question we should add to the list of FAQs about our Performance Grants: Q: I see your grants encourage the performance of historic composers (“we prefer that one of the two works be by a historic woman”). I guess that means that new music...Repertoire to Know: Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
The deadline for the WPA Performance Grants is next week! Our latest installment in suggested repertoire brings us to Fanny Hensel (nee Mendelssohn). Hensel is one of the few historic women who have a chance of being included in a music history textbook. (If only as...
Beyond Mrs. Bach
The classical music world has been all a-tizzy in recent days about Martin Jarvis’ work linking Anna Magdalena Bach to J.S. Bach’s Cello Suites. The story first made headlines in 2008, and again last week now that the theory is explored in a film. The...Repertoire to Know: Alice Mary Smith
With only two weeks left until the deadline for the Performance Grants, our next composer that deserves some attention is Alice Mary Smith (1839-1884). Smith was born in London to an affluent family and had impressive opportunities to study and participate in the...