Celebrating March With Music by Women

Celebrating March With Music by Women

March is Women’s History Month – and while we think that every month is  good time to include women’s work in concert program, it’s a particularly appropriate time to reflect on women’s work and impact through time. There are several...
New Works This Weekend

New Works This Weekend

Congratulations to the Community Women’s Orchestra and Hartford Independent Chamber Orchestra – both WPA Performance Grant winners presenting works by women composers in concerts this weekend! This Saturday, February 20, the Hartford Independent Chamber...
No Excuses Project

No Excuses Project

We are thrilled for the continued success – and social activism through music – of WPA Board Member, composer, conductor, and educator Kathleen McGuire.  We wrote last year about the premieres and acclaim that her collaborative project Street Requiem...
Concerts Coast to Coast

Concerts Coast to Coast

There is another great weekend of concerts to look forward to – and music by women composers to be heard from Massachusetts and California! First to be heard this weekend is Cappella Clausura, winner of a 2014 Performance Grant.  From their website: Cappella...

NPR Covers “Cold Mountain”

NPR’s Morning Edition covered Jennifer Higdon’s new opera, Cold Mountain.  The work, which has been in development for over two years, premiered last weekend to a sold out audience in Santa Fe.  It will be heard in Philadelphia later this year. Paul Ingles...