News and music to start your week! WFAE spoke to Nkieru Okoye who was commissioned to compose a new work for The Charlotte Symphony to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the city’s founding! Read the interview, or listen in at the WFAE website. Huge news from...
News and music to start your week! The Pacific Standard spoke to WPA President Liane Curtis about the current state of women’s work in symphonic spaces. Read on here! It’s Hildegard von Bingen’s Feast Day! Celebrate by listening to some of her best...
News and music to start your week! The Philadelphia Orchestra made a stir in the Spring with their season announcement, and lack of diversity among composers. They walked much of that back with the addition of two (rather small) works by women to the concert season,...
News to start your week! Have you seen our report on who is being heard in the 2018-2019 orchestral concert season? Find all the news — good and bad — here. Listening to Ladies has a new podcast ready to stream and share! In the latest episode she talks...
News to start your week! We are saddened by the passing of American Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, pianist, and educator George Walker. He claimed the title of “first” to many achievements in the classical music world, including: first African American...
News and music to start your week! The Philadelphia Orchestra is collaborating with American Composers Orchestra to offer a closed reading session for six up-and-coming women composers. Though not open to the public, the ensemble will perform and critique each work...
