by Liane Curtis | Apr 11, 2021
By Mary Purpura Previously we posted Mary Purpura’s moving account of the work of The Women’s Philharmonic. Today we continue her consideration of the obstacles that remain to bringing women’s compositions into the mainstream. These essays are...
by Liane Curtis | Aug 2, 2019
By Jennifer DeLapp-Birkett, Ph.D., musicology, [email protected] When Vivian Perlis died last month, the music world lost a respected scholar, a pioneering oral historian, an advocate for American composers and a strong supporter of women in classical music and...
by Liane Curtis | Jul 19, 2019
[note: latest version of the opera database, March 2022, is here https://wophil.org/500ops/ ] Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy is happy to unveil our newly-updated database of 500+ Operas by Women! We invited Dr. Penny Brandt (one of the two noted scholars who...
by Liane Curtis | Mar 24, 2014
Today was the first day of the Tenth Annual Festival of Women in Music at the Eastman School of Music (Rochester, NY). The Festival was founded and is organized by pianist and Eastman Faculty member Sylvie Beaudette. Correct me if I’m wrong, but to my knowledge,...
by SMBrown | Aug 24, 2012
With the debut of Margaret Ruthven Lang’s Dramatic Overture in 1893, the world changed: never before had an orchestral work composed by a woman been performed on the American stage. The intervening 119 years have brought monumental social change, much of it due...
