Category: orchestras
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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 – November 25, 2024
2024 is wrapping up with plenty of chances to hear music by women composers! On November 24th, Imogen Holst‘s Concerto for Violin and Strings (1935) received its first public performance at St Andrew’s Holborn in London by the Elgar Sinfonia of London alongside music by Sir Edward Elgar and Gerald Finzi. This premiere took place ninety years…
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WPA News Digest — November 11, 2024
Lots to celebrate for women in music! FIRST — our revised Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy Grant program is finally unveiled! Read all about it!! Learn more here! The Grants are now being offered every other month, with the first deadline December 9, 2024. The International Alliance for Women in Music announced the winners of its annual…
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WPA News Digest – October 28 2024
Lots of concerts in October and November have been/are featuring works by women composers! (We love to see it!) On November 3, 2024 the Golden Gate Symphony Orchestra & Chorus (San Francisco, USA) will perform the world premiere of Elijah’s Call: An Oratorio for an Abolitionist by composer Allison Lovejoy. The oratorio honors Lovejoy’s ancestor…