News and music to start your week! Marin Alsop has started a fellowship for women conductors to help encourage the number of women entering the field. She was interviewed by the New York Times about this new project, her career until this point, and the hurdles that...
Music and News to start your week! The New York Times profiled Alma Deutscher – violinist, pianist, and composer who has been putting the classical music world in awe since she was just 4 years old. Now 14, she’s working on a retrospective album and also...
News and music to start your week! Musicians in Bonn, Germany celebrated the 200th birthday of Clara Schumann with Schumannfest! The event, which runs from June 1 to June 16, will include works by many women composers, not just Clara. However, there will be a...
News and music to start your week! The exciting conference Women, Feminists, and Music: Transforming Tomorrow Today kicks off on Thursday, at Berklee College of Music in Boston. The conference brings together the International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) and...
News and music to start your week. As we pause on Memorial Day, here are some works by women composers appropriate for today’s reflection. Joan Tower’s Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman – a play off of Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man –...
News and music to start your week! Daniel Temkin is writing a series for New Music Box about ethics in music – with the most recent article being who in the new music world gets heard and why, including issues of representation. Read on here. Justin Davidson...
