by Liane Curtis | Feb 27, 2014
We are kicking off our Indiegogo campaign with a daily blog series: 32 Composers You Need to Know! This is in honor of Women’s History Month (which is a federally observed celebration; here is last year’s Presidential declaration). But of course it is...
by Liane Curtis | Nov 23, 2013
Tonight! (Nov. 23) Not only will WPA Performance Grant recipient Nashville Symphony present two works by Joan Tower—Stroke (2010) and Violin Concerto (1991)—it will also record them for a 2014 release by Naxos, the same label that released Tower’s...
by Liane Curtis | Nov 7, 2013
“In reading more studies about our recent history in this matter, I have understood that the situation is not slowly getting better, but that the improvements seem to have stopped a while ago. In politics, economy, research and culture in general, women still...
by SMBrown | Sep 27, 2013
Women scored top honors in two of the coveted orchestral categories recently awarded by the American Prize. Leading the way, Michigan Philharmonic maestro Nan Harrison Washburn, formerly the co-founder and artistic director of the Women’s Philharmonic, was named...
by Liane Curtis | May 13, 2013
Mei-Ann Chen is Music Director of the Memphis Symphony and the Chicago Sinfonietta. Earlier this year she guest-conducted with the San Diego Symphony, and on May 9 she made her subscription debut with the Chicago Symphony. This is four orchestras and their audiences...
