Back-to-School Resources

by sarah | Aug 23, 2023

[Updated Aug. 27 2023] As teachers and students alike get ready to head back to classrooms, rehearsal spaces, and studios, it’s a wonderful time to think about the numerous ways that composers outside of the standard dead, white, male canon can be learned about,...

A Composer Joins the Zoom Call

by Liane Curtis | Mar 12, 2021

Music educator Miriam Capellan returns (her previous blog is here) with a vivid account of special day in the life (pandemic version) of a primary level music teacher.  The new work being rehearsed can be heard in performance Saturday March 13, 2021 (links below)...

Remembering a pioneering scholar of women in music, Dr. Karin Pendle

by Liane Curtis | Feb 21, 2020

In the past few years, so many have “discovered” the issue of women composers and gender in classical music.  That is — for the most part — great!  But sometimes it does seem like we keep on “re-inventing the wheel.” If  instead we...

Featured Guest Blogger: Could an Academic Conference pass the Bechdel Test?

by Liane Curtis | Nov 18, 2018

We welcome Dr. Penny Brandt to Feminist in the Concert Hall!  She is a musicologist who recently completed a Ph.D. Dissertation on composer Elsa Olivieri Sangiacomo Respighi, and who is known for her leadership role with the Hartford Festival of Women Composers.   ...

HAPPY 150th BIRTHDAY, AMY BEACH!!

by Chris Trotman | Sep 4, 2017

As this year marks Amy Beach’s 150th birthday, much is being done in celebration about this remarkable woman’s life and work! Numerous orchestras, choral ensembles, chamber ensembles and soloists around the world have performed or will be performing works by the...

Representation in the Classroom

by sarah | Apr 21, 2017

Representation matters.  In recordings, in publications, in performance halls, and in classrooms. We were thrilled to learn about a new project to encourage more discussion and exploration of works by women in classrooms through music theory curriculum.  The project...