Category: women’s history month
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Monday Link Round Up: March 4, 2019
Celebrate Women’s History Month by remembering women composers! Our 2019 Women Composers Calendar is now ON SALE! Grab your copy for just $13, including shipping. Find it in our shop. Plan ahead for the Women Composers Festival of Hartford Festival! Find the full schedule of events and get your tickets at the WCFH Website. Get…
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Best of 2018! BBC International Women’s Day Orchestral Concert
One of the most important events in music of 2018 was the BBC’s International Women’s Day broadcasts and live concerts. Performances and recordings were aired based on special research aimed at bringing to light unknown music composed by women. The highlight of the day was this concert by the BBC Concert Orchestra. We wanted to…
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Dora Pejačević — another composer whose time has come?
With two upcoming performances of music by Dora Pejačević taking place in the next few weeks, we wonder if this remarkable but little-known composer, who was writing powerful orchestral works a century ago, is finally ready for rediscovery. [Wondering how to pronounce Pejačević?] A recipient of our Performance Grant, the Willamette Falls Symphony, will be performing…
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Elizabeth Wood Inspires Hartford Festival
The 17th annual Women Composers Festival of Hartford invited musicologist Elizabeth Wood to be their Keynote Speaker, and Wood shares her energizing presentation with us here. It was really more of a Convocation: a kick-off of the Festival, a drawing together of those assembled as well as the composers and pieces of the opening concert …