by Liane Curtis | Apr 6, 2016
If you have our April calendar, you know that we are celebrating some very important composers’ birthdays this month, including Florence Price, Germaine Tailleferre, and Ethel Smyth! Oh, and Happy Birthday, Phyllis Tate (today, April 6) — here’s part...
by Liane Curtis | Apr 6, 2016
Composer Elena Langer has achieved a brilliant success as she “completes” the Figaro “trilogy” for Welsh National Opera. Complementing Mozart’s “Marriage” and Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville,”...
by Liane Curtis | Mar 28, 2016
The new documentary film “The Caged Bird: the Life and Music of Florence B. Price,” will be broadcast nationally on March 28 and 29 on the PBS World channel. The film tells the inspiring story of the first African-American woman to have her music performed...
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 | Jan 17, 2016
“AND THEY COMPOSE, CONDUCT – OF COURSE!” — two days of exciting and informative events in Munich, 31st Jan. 2016 – 1st Feb. 2016 The Conference addresses the pressing question, “Why there are still so few women conductors and women composers in the...
by Chris Trotman | Nov 22, 2015
Like so much in this time of the Corona Virus, our Performance Grants are currently on hold. Here are our 2019 Grant Winners! Read About Our 2018 Grant Winners! Learn about our 2015, 2016, and 2017 Performance Grant winners.
