WPA News Digest: May, 27, 2024

by Kathleen McGowan | May 27, 2024

The Orchestra Book Club of the greater Boston area will perform Grażyna Bacewicz’s Symphonic Variations and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini on May 27 at 3:00 PM as part of Arts at the Armory in Somerville, Massachusetts. The event is free and...

Link Roundup: June 26, 2023

by Liane Curtis | Jun 26, 2023

Start the week by catching up with some of the exciting and GOOD news!! San Francisco Opera has staged its first work by a woman composer, El último sueño de Frida y Diego by Gabriela Lena Frank and (librettist) Nilo Cruz.  Also the first production of a work in...

Monday Link Round Up: October 14, 2019

by sarah | Oct 14, 2019

News and music to start your week! Contemporary Musical Theatre interviews composer Georgia Stitt. The focus is the organization Maestra Music which Stitt founded “to give support, visibility, and community to the women who make the music in the musical theater...

Featured Guest Blogger: Quinn Mason on Diversity in Music

by Liane Curtis | Sep 30, 2019

We found Quinn Mason’s Youtube channel devoted to women conductors some months ago.  This is truly an amazing channel, featuring more than 150 recordings of ensembles led by 50+ different women conductors, representing a different range of backgrounds, ages and...

The Impact of The Women’s Philharmonic: Pamela Wilson

by Liane Curtis | May 12, 2019

We received this beautiful testimonial from Pamela Wilson a while — OK, over a year — ago. What a fantastic statement of the unexpected and ongoing resonances of The Women’s Philharmonic! Thank you, Pamela! Pamela Wilson works in advancement at...

2019-2020 Season Follow Up

by sarah | May 1, 2019

We recently posted our initial findings for the data we collected from the 2019-2020 season, and have received many comments and questions, and I’ll answer as many as I can! We were asked was any composer besides Beethoven had more works performed than the total...