Category: premiere
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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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On the rediscovery of Helen Hagan
We are thrilled by this excellent article in the Washington Post about tonights revival (premiere of the new orchestration) of Helen Hagan’s Piano Concerto. The concert will livestream here on the website of the Yale School of Music https://music.yale.edu/live (Starts at 7:30 PM Eastern time, the Hagan is the second piece on the program) …
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Beach work Premiered in WPA Edition
By Liane Curtis Our new edition of Amy Beach’s concert aria “Jephthah’s Daughter” was premiered last week. The edition is part of our project to make high-quality, engraved critical editions available for ALL of Beach’s music. We knew that “Jephthah’s Daughter” was certainly a rarity, but as we examined the history of the work further…
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Miriam Gideon’s “Fortunato” Premiered
We were thrilled to hear the stream of Miriam Gideon’s 1958 chamber opera, Fortunato, last week. This was the world premiere of this work, which Gideon apparently wrote hoping that it would be performed by the NBC Opera Theatre. She composed it in three acts, and orchestrated the first act. While her hope was that…