by Chris Trotman | Sep 4, 2017
As this year marks Amy Beach’s 150th birthday, much is being done in celebration about this remarkable woman’s life and work! Numerous orchestras, choral ensembles, chamber ensembles and soloists around the world have performed or will be performing works by the...
by Liane Curtis | Sep 8, 2016
We’ve had pushback on some of the information in our blog post on the 2016-2017 orchestral repertoire of the top 21 U.S. orchestras. A statement by musicologist and writer Steve Ledbetter (on his Facebook page), that these 14 orchestras “have totally turned...
by Liane Curtis | Feb 5, 2016
We at WPA are often reflecting on how our goals of incorporating women into the classical canon are parallel to those who work for racial and ethnic diversity in the music world. Plus, Black History Month – February – is adjacent to Women’s History Month, and...
by Liane Curtis | Dec 11, 2015
Back on Aug. 9, 2015, Jeremy Eichler (the Boston Globe’s classical music critic) annoyed me by repeatedly using male pronouns in an article about the art of conducting. True, the article’s focus was the Boston SO’s new(ish) music director Andris Nelsons, but I...
by Liane Curtis | Jul 29, 2015
Dr. Amy Zigler is Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Salem College in Winston-Salem, NC. She specializes in music of the 19th and 20th centuries, with a focus on the cultural study of chamber music, the social history of music in Germany and Great Britain,...
