Category: statistics
-
2019-2020 Season Follow Up
We recently posted our initial findings for the data we collected from the 2019-2020 season, and have received many comments and questions, and I’ll answer as many as I can! We were asked was any composer besides Beethoven had more works performed than the total number of works by women composers. The short answer is…
-
Featured Guest Blogger: Could an Academic Conference pass the Bechdel Test?
We welcome Dr. Penny Brandt to Feminist in the Concert Hall! She is a musicologist who recently completed a Ph.D. Dissertation on composer Elsa Olivieri Sangiacomo Respighi, and who is known for her leadership role with the Hartford Festival of Women Composers. This past weekend, I attended the annual meetings of the American Musicological Society…
-
A View from Germany: Classical Music is so Sexist
Inge Kloepfer‘s striking article “So sexistisch ist die Klassik — Classical Music is So Sexist” appeared on June 13, 2018 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. We wanted English-speaking readers to be able to read this important journalism, so we asked Elizabeth Osman to translate it for us, and then I polished her translation. Thank you to…
-
NPR on Female Composers At The Symphony (and the lack thereof)
As Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy celebrates the 10th anniversary of our founding, and continues to celebrate the important work of The Women’s Philharmonic, who performed and promoted music by women throughout the 23 years of their existence (1981-2004) we are always happy to hear media attention being given to our central issue, of women composers, and…