Must-Listen Radio: WQXR’s Price of Admission

by SMBrown | Mar 13, 2013

Offering the perfect coda to our recent posts on Florence Price and Margaret Bonds, WQXR’s just-produced radio documentary The Price of Admission devotes a full hour to the life and music of Price. Hosted by former Morehouse professor of music Terrance McKnight,...

Honoring Margaret Bonds

by sarah | Mar 11, 2013

I was thrilled to hear NPR reporting on a woman composer on All Things Considered recently. Celeste Headlee spoke with Louise Toppin, opera singer and voice professor at the University of North Carolina, on the life and work of Margaret Bonds. Bonds, who died in 1972,...

REALLY Think Outside the Bachs!!

by Liane Curtis | Mar 10, 2013

   

AND a NEW SONG, Launched Today by U.N. Women

by Liane Curtis | Mar 8, 2013

The NEW SONG, being launched today, inspires listeners to join the drive for women’s rights and gender equality.

Florence Price and the Chicago Symphony Are Reunited—by Mei-Ann Chen

by SMBrown | Mar 1, 2013

On the cusp of Black and Women’s History Months, we’re celebrating that 80 years after her orchestral debut Florence Beatrice Price is currently making a comeback on the concert stage—thanks in no small part to conductor Mei-Ann Chen. Chen, maestro of both...

Remembering Vítězslava Kaprálová

by sarah | Mar 31, 2011

I will finish the WPA tribute to historic female composers by remembering the life and music of Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915-1940). Though she lived a tragically short life, she made a dramatic impact as a composer and conductor. Czech by birth, Kaprálová studied at the...