by Liane Curtis | Nov 11, 2019
Dr. Penny Brandt offers this report on the recent Symposium in Dallas: The “Women in Classical Music Symposium” hosted by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra was held this week at the Morton Meyerson Symphony Center in downtown Dallas, Texas. Organizers included President...
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...
by Liane Curtis | Aug 2, 2019
By Jennifer DeLapp-Birkett, Ph.D., musicology, [email protected] When Vivian Perlis died last month, the music world lost a respected scholar, a pioneering oral historian, an advocate for American composers and a strong supporter of women in classical music and...
by Liane Curtis | Feb 24, 2019
We welcome our Featured Guest Blogger Dr. Amy Zigler back to share her recent experience! The Recording of Ethel Smyth’s The Prison by James Blachly and the Experiential Orchestra, with Sarah Brailey, soprano, Dashon Burton, bass-baritone, Steven Fox and the...
by Liane Curtis | Jan 7, 2019
Dr. Penny Brandt continues her report on the 2018 joint conference of the American Musicological Society/Society for Music Theory. My favorite session at AMS/SMT this year was the Sunday morning joint session on “The Songs of Fanny Hensel” chaired by R. Larry Todd...
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. ...
