Category: news
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WPA News Digest – January 6, 2025
We hope your new year is off to a great start! On January 25th, 2025, the MusicaNova Orchestra will present its program “Resistance & Unity: Women Rise” at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. Among the works performed will be Reena Esmail‘s Zeher (for cello and strings) and Victoria Yagling‘s Suite for Cello and Strings,…
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WPA News Digest – December 23, 2024
Happy Holidays, dear WPA readers! There’s plenty of holiday cheer for women in music as 2024 comes to a close! Conductor Stephanie Childress will ring in the New Year on December 31 with the St Louis Symphony Orchestra. This concert will be her second return performance with the SLSO since her time as assistant conductor…
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WPA News Digest – December 16, 2024
It’s an exciting time for women in classical music! Here’s this week’s update! Jessica Joy Harned has recently released her theatrical orchestra experience Classical Queens: Our Time, deriving from Harned’s original research project-turned-podcast Classical Queens. Harned describes the show as: “the story of two black women who have become tired of the experiences that they…
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WPA News Digest – December 2, 2024
There’s lots to be excited about for women in music as we kick off December! (Including a few gift ideas.) On Wednesday November 27, the Raices Negras Trio performed at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. The group featured three members of the larger Raíces Negras Collective (pictured left): Dr.…