Featured Guest Blogger: Amy Zigler reviews “The Wreckers”

by Liane Curtis | Jul 29, 2015

    Dr. Amy Zigler is Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Salem College in Winston-Salem, NC.  She specializes in music of the 19th and 20th centuries, with a focus on the cultural study of chamber music, the social history of music in Germany and Great Britain,...

The Wreckers: An Opera for our Time

by Liane Curtis | Jul 23, 2015

Ethel Smyth’s “The Wreckers” (1906) will receive its’ first staged US performance Friday night (July 24) at Bard Summerscape (total of 5 performances).  NPR’s All Things Considered aired a feature (available here)  about this historic performance (Musicologist...

Women-Only Conducting Workshops with Alice Farnham

by sarah | Jul 15, 2015

It is hard to not be encouraged and inspired by the recent attention and action around the lack of opportunities for women conductors.  The momentum continues with the announcement that Alice Farnham will expand the workshop series she began in 2014 to provide even...

Jessica Gethin Wins Conducting Award

by sarah | Jul 1, 2015

Australian conductor Jessica Gethin is the 2015 winner of the Brian Stacey Emerging Conductor Award.  From the press release: The annual awards, established in 2002, recognise an Australian conductor, early in their professional career, who shows significant promise...

Iceland Symphony Orchestra Celebrates Women Composers

by sarah | Jun 12, 2015

Iceland is celebrating the 100th anniversary of women’s right to vote – and in honor of the occasion the Iceland Symphony Orchestra presented a concert June 11 featuring the works of contemporary and historic women composers. The program, which was...

Monday Link Round Up

by sarah | Jun 1, 2015

We’ve rounded up some links of interest from over the weekend. Conductor JoAnn Falletta has renewed her contract with the Buffalo Philharmonic for another six years.  Falletta, who was also conductor of The Women’s Philharmonic (1986-1997),...