by Kathleen McGowan | Dec 23, 2024
Happy Holidays, dear WPA readers! There’s plenty of holiday cheer for women in music as 2024 comes to a close! Conductor Stephanie Childress will ring in the New Year on December 31 with the St Louis Symphony Orchestra. This concert will be her second return...
by Kathleen McGowan | Dec 16, 2024
It’s an exciting time for women in classical music! Here’s this week’s update! Jessica Joy Harned has recently released her theatrical orchestra experience Classical Queens: Our Time, deriving from Harned’s original research...
by Liane Curtis | Dec 13, 2024
Martin Ash, a free-lance violist/violinist in the London area who has previously provided us these insightful blog posts about Laura Maddelena Lombardini (here and here), was in thick of the recent world premiere performance of Imogen Holst’s Violin Concerto (1935),...
by Liane Curtis | Oct 5, 2024
Marianne Martines’ works continue gaining recognition – Boston’s Horizon Ensemble performs her Symphony in C on Sunday, Oct. 6 – the concert is “pay what you can” and will stream, if you are unable to attend in person. More information here. The theme of the...
by Kathleen McGowan | Sep 16, 2024
To start your week, here are a few recent stories that caught our attention! In a surprising announcement this week, the Berlin Philharmonic’s concertmaster Vineta Sareika has announced that she will leave her position with the orchestra. Her final appearances...
by Liane Curtis | Aug 16, 2024
We know Louise Farrenc is one of our favorite composers, and one we discuss frequently, but still it is not often that a major US orchestra performs her work AND makes it available in a streaming format! The American Symphony Orchestra, directed by Leon Botstein,...
