by Liane Curtis | Nov 20, 2023
We originally published this post on Feb 26, 2021 and are now reposting, since it is so important to our work! Guest author Mary Purpura completed an MA Thesis about The Women’s Philharmonic in 2016. Her research provided an important history of our founding...
by Liane Curtis | Mar 7, 2023
By Dr. Amy Zigler, an Ethel Smyth scholar and Associate Professor of Music at Salem College. She will be speaking about the recording, the female characters, and issues of agency in Der Wald at the Operatic Feminisms symposium on March 25, 2023, at Columbia...
by Liane Curtis | Jun 23, 2022
Our featured guest author Chris White teaches music theory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and writes for both the popular and academic press. We asked him to comment on the reaction to his important article of two years ago, and are thrilled to have this...
by Liane Curtis | Mar 31, 2022
We are very excited to conclude Women’s History Month with a post by Featured Guest Blogger Elizabeth de Brito. Ms. de Brito is the Founder and Creator of The Daffodil Perspective, a classical music podcast where every show is gender balanced and racially...
by Liane Curtis | Apr 4, 2021
This blog post of May 17, 2020 was one of our most popular of last year, and as we passed the one-year anniversary of the shutdowns and quarantines in response to Covid-19, it is worthwhile to recall Fanny Mendelssohn’s response to the frightening pandemic of...
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)...
