by Liane Curtis | Oct 10, 2023
By Dr. April Lynn James. Part 1 is published here My bestselling book,* The Tenth Muse: How Maria Antonia Advanced the Pastoral Opera, is a major revision of the dissertation I completed in 2002. Why did I not publish it then? I had other things to do with my life...
by Liane Curtis | Mar 16, 2020
Annie Janeiro Randall, Professor of Music at Bucknell University, is the author of Dusty! Queen of the Postmods and editor of Music, Power, and Politics. We invited her to share her remembrance of Prof. Karin Pendle, and are happy to offer her thoughts, below. We...
by Liane Curtis | Jan 2, 2020
Happy New Year! We are starting a TBT “Throwback Thursday” series to highlight some of the achievements of The Women’s Philharmonic, the great and influential ensemble (1980-2004). I was reading some work by music critic Joshua Kosman, and I came...
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 | Jan 19, 2019
One of the most important events in music of 2018 was the BBC’s International Women’s Day broadcasts and live concerts. Performances and recordings were aired based on special research aimed at bringing to light unknown music composed by women. The...
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. ...