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# Women's Philharmonic Advocacy

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- [WPA News Digest – August 10, 2026](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-august-10-2026/) - By Kathleen McGowan There's lots to listen to by women this week! On August 10 at the Tanglewood Festival's Seiji Ozawa Festival Hall, the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra will perform a concert celebrating American opera including arias from Gabriela Lena Frank's El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego and Missy Mazzoli's Proving Up. (Via the
- [ACSO2026](https://wophil.org/acso2026/) - We are happy to be attending ACSO (Association of California Symphony Orchestras)! We prepared this two-page list of (most of) our music publications (PDF) And here are the slides that went with Liane's Flash Talk. And be sure to visit our Shop page where we sell our music scores!
- [Lessons for us all from Gabriela Lena Frank](https://wophil.org/lessons-for-us-all-from-gabriela-lena-frank/) - We continue with part 2 of the series begun here with “Gabriella Lena Frank is having a long moment.” Attendees at next week's ACSO (Association of California Symphony Orchestras) conference will have the oportunity to hear Frank as Keynote speaker, as well as hearing two of her works be performed by the Santa Rosa Symphony
- [WPA News Digest  – August 3, 2026](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-august-3-2026/) - By Kathleen McGowan There's lots of music by women to listen to and read about this week! Before covering upcoming events this week, Katherine Needleman—professional oboist and principal of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; composer and improviser; writer and tireless activist for women in classical music—has had a full slate of material for reporting this summer.
- [WPA News Digest – July 27, 2026](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-july-27-2026/) - By Kathleen McGowan On July 29, musicians of the Three Choirs Festival will perform at Gloucester Cathedral. Included in their performance are two pieces by Cecilia McDowall: the orchestral version premiere of her A Song for St. Cecilia and Rain, Steam, and Speed (2006) for orchestra. A Song for St. Cecilia was originally commissioned by the Bar
- [2026 BBC Proms: By the Numbers](https://wophil.org/2026-bbc-proms-by-the-numbers/) - By Sarah Baer, with information provided by Sandy Lewis, WPA Board member The 2026 BBC Proms begins in London on July 17 and run through September 12, offering hundreds of hours of music spanning genres and centuries of history. This historic and deeply beloved tradition makes attending concerts a family affair with accessible tickets and
- [WPA News Digest – July 20 2026](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-july-20-2026/) - By Kathleen McGowan There are lots of women to listen to this week! The Madison Symphony Orchestra (MSO) has named Laura Jackson its next music director, only the fifth to hold the position in the Orchestra’s 100-year history. She will begin her tenure for the 2027-28 season. She gave her debut with the orchestra in
- [Review: Highly Effective Recording of Louise Bertin's 1836 <i>Fausto</i>](https://wophil.org/review-highly-effective-recording-of-louise-bertins-1836-fausto/) - We are delighted to present a Guest blog post by Professor Ralph Locke -- his bio is found at the end of the article The Highly Effective 1836 Opera Fausto by Louise Bertin Gets a Devilishly Good First Recording Much praised by Berlioz and others, this Italian opera (composed for the great mezzo Maria Malibran)
- [WPA News Digest – July 13, 2026](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-july-13-2026/) - By Kathleen McGowan There are so many women composers to hear this week! (Especially if you like opera!) Royal Philharmonic Society Composer Nneka Cummins has been appointed as the Composer in Residence at the Chineke Foundation for its 2026-27 season. The season will feature a combination of performances of Nneka's new and existing music. Nneka
- [WPA News Digest – July 6, 2026](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-july-6-2026/) - By Kathleen McGowan There are so many exciting women to listen to this week! On July 12, composer Beth Denisch's All of Us premieres in Cologne, Germany, by the Rainbow Symphony Cologne. Her commission has been supported by five LGBTQ+ orchestras: the Minnesota Philharmonic Orchestra (Minneapolis, USA); the Rainbow Symphony Cologne (Cologne, Germany); the Rainbow
- [WPA News Digest – June 29, 2026](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-june-29-2026/) - By Kathleen McGowan There are plenty of women to listen to this week! Through July 1, Dear Lara streams in Canada with Pay What you Can pricing. The schedule is available here. Lara St. John's documentary is a necessary and unflinching critique of the sexism and sexual abuse prevalent in classical music, and the institutions that
- [WPA News Digest – June 22, 2026](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-june-22-2026/) - By Kathleen McGowan Welcome to another week of listening to women in music! There is lots to hear this week. Announced June 15th, the London Philharmonic Orchestra will extend their partnership with their Principal Guest Conductor Karina Canellakis for an additional three years (through the 2029/30 season). Canellakis began her role with the LPO in
- [Celebrating Juneteenth 2026!](https://wophil.org/celebrating-juneteenth-2026/) - Juneteenth celebrations are many and varied, and are even on different days, not just June 19th. Here are a few concerts including classical music: June 18 -- Minneapolis Philharmonic celebrates with a concert featuring Nkeiru Okoye’s stirring "Voices Shouting Out" and Brittany Green’s "Testify!" Conducted by Kedrick Armstrong, the concert also includes music by Brian
- [WPA News Digest – June 15, 2026](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-june-15-2026/) - By Kathleen McGowan Here are a few things going on mid-June! On Wednesday June 17, the National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic will perform a program that includes Gabriela Ortiz's Antrópolis, led by Marin Alsop (Carnegie Hall Perspectives Artist). This performance marks the ensemble's Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage debut. In her notes about the piece, Ortiz
- [WPA News Digest - June 8, 2026](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-june-8-2026/) - By Kathleen McGowan We hope your June is going well! Here's some news to get your week going!! Beginning June 10, the Welsh National Opera orchestra will perform Sarah Frances Jenkins's The Coming of Night as part of its Summer Soiree program. The Soiree runs from June 10 –20 at various venues in Wales and
- [Introducing Juliette Folville (1870-1946)](https://wophil.org/introducing-juliette-folville-1870-1946/) - Today we have a distinguished Guest Blogger, Dr. Fauve Bougard, a Belgian musicologist currently based in Toronto. Her recent dissertation focused on the education of women at the Conservatoires of Paris and Brussels in the 19th century. Her Master's Thesis was on Juliette Folville, and was published as a book in 2020: Juliette Folville (1870-1946), compositrice
- [2026-2027 By the Numbers](https://wophil.org/2026-2027-by-the-numbers/) - By Sarah Baer It is time, once again, for our annual repertoire report. Compiling this data in the current political and economic landscape felt particularly harrowing this year. The effects of the Trump Administration can be felt throughout every facet of life, including in concert halls and orchestral programming. The combination of the fears felt
- [WPA News Digest - June 1, 2026](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-june-1-2026/) - By Kathleen McGowan We have a range of interesting stories for you to start your week! On May 24th, Marin Alsop was announced as the Festival Director of the 2027 May Festival in Cincinnati, OH. The Festival takes place next year from May 17-30, 2027. Among its large works will feature the U.S. premiere of
- [Gabriela Lena Frank is having a long moment](https://wophil.org/gabriela-lena-frank-a-long-moment/) - Our distinguished guest blogger today is Sarah Clemmens Waltz, a musicologist with a wide range of research interests. She is Professor and Program Director for Music History at the University of the Pacific at Stockton, CA. Her insights on Gabriela Lena Frank are a timely follow-up to the composer being awarded the 2026 Pulitzer Prize
- [WPA News Digest – May 25, 2026](https://wophil.org/elim-chan-may-25-2026/) - By Kathleen McGowan Our digest this week has one story Huge news in US orchestras broke just before the holiday weekend: conductor Elim Chan has been named Music Director Designate of the San Francisco Symphony, the orchestra announced on May 21, 2026. Her tenure with the orchestra begins in September 2027. This is a huge
- [Paying it forward / paying it backward--A new interview series](https://wophil.org/paying-it-forward-composers/) - We at WPA focus on bringing to life the music of historic composers, because they were erased from history, even those who were successful and celebrated in their lifetimes. And composers of the past are unable to promote themselves the way that living composers are able to! :-) So -- as part of our celebration
- [WPA News Digest – May 18, 2026](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-may-18-2026/) - Happy Monday! We note a few concerts from around the world, with links so you can listen to featured selections, and we also start taking a look at next seasons' programming! On May 21-23 the Chicago Symphony performs Anna Clyne's Sound and Fury, a tone poem for chamber orchestra. The piece was written in
- [WPA News Digest -- May 11, 2026](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-may-11-2026/) - By Kathleen McGowan On May 15th, St. Paul's Sinfonia (dir. John Andrews) performs "British Landscapes" at the historic St. Alfege Church, Greenwich, London. The program features Penillion (a symphonic poem) by Grace Williams and the Piano Concerto by Avril Coleridge-Taylor with Dr. Samantha Ege as the soloist. Dr. Ege is rightly known for her
- [Two more upcoming concerts! (one STREAMS tomorrow!)](https://wophil.org/two-more-upcoming-concerts-one-streams-tomorrow/) - Two more exciting concerts you don't want to miss! A rare performance of Helen Hagan's recently rediscovered -- and just published by us, WPA -- Concerto in C minor, takes place and STREAMS tomorrow, Thursday May 7, at 7:30 PM (Eastern Time). The streaming link is here! The Miami University Symphony Orchestra performs, led by
- [WPA News Digest – May 4, 2026](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-may-4-2026/) - By Kathleen McGowan Exciting things going on! And even if you can't get to the concerts we give some links to music so you can have a listen! On May 5th, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and Bamberg University Choir will perform a concert of video game music from classic and contemporary games. Eímear Noone,
- [TBT: Germaine Tailleferre’s Malicious Men](https://wophil.org/germaine-tailleferres-malicious-men/) - A few months ago, we re-published our important post of 2017, Germaine Tailleferre: Critics, Historians, and her Reception, by Tim Diovanni, who is now Arts and Entertainment Editor for the Dallas Morning News, and here on LinkedIn) The article below was actually published before that one, and it offers alarming insights into this brilliant and
- [Germaine Tailleferre: Critics, Historians, and her Reception](https://wophil.org/tailleferres-critics-by-diovanni/) - Happy TBT! (Throwback Thursday) We originally published this blog post in October 2017. Since it is frequently cited, we would like to foreground it again -- ALSO -- we still haven't noticed Tailleferre's Le Marchand d'oiseaux being performed anywhere! (Do correct us if we are wrong! info@wophil.org) Author Tim Diovanni is now Arts and Entertainment
- [WPA News Digest – April 27, 2026](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-april-27-2026/) - By Kathleen McGowan Wow! Exciting news to start the week! Scotland's International Helen Hopekirk Competition & Festival has announced its 2026 dates. The festival will take place from May18–24 at venues in Glasgow & Edinburgh; the live Piano and Organ Competition in Edinburgh on May 22–23; and the Online Competition in Piano, Organ, and Composition
- [WPA News Digest – April 20, 2026](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-april-20-2026/) - By Kathleen McGowan So much going on -- here's some of it! On April 17, Early Music America announced the release of a new album: Marianna Martines Complete Keyboard Works from pianist Idith Meshulam Korman, Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey (Signum Classics, 2026). This is the first complete modern recording of all the
- [New England Concerts on April 18!](https://wophil.org/new-england-concerts-on-april-18/) - We want to highlight two concerts that are both featuring exciting and important repertoire, both taking place on Sat. April 18. Mabel Daniels "Deep Forest" (1933) is featured in Symphony New Hampshire's concert. Born in Swampscott, MA, Mabel Wheeler Daniels lived and worked in the Boston area, serving as head of the Music Department of Simmons
- [WPA News Digest – April 13, 2026](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-april-13-2026/) - By Kathleen McGowan There's lots to listen to by women in the concert hall this week! Announced on April 7th, Anna Handler will be the Los Angeles Philharmonic's conductor-in residence. She will begin her three-year term with the orchestra in the 2026/27 season following Gustavo Dudamel's final season. Handler will spend three weeks each season
- [WPA News Digest – April 6, 2026](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-april-6-2026/) - By Kathleen McGowan Happy Monday! We offer a range of interesting news to get your week started! YourClassical’s Performance Today has selected Gabriela Ortiz as its 2026 Classical Woman of the Year. Ortiz is a Mexican composer and music educator whose work has been performed by the premiere orchestras of the world in the past
- [WPA News Digest – March 30, 2026](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-march-30-2026/) - March is ending! And with the end or Women's History Month, we unfortunately find fewer orchestras including works by women. The point of Women’s History Month is to celebrate the contributions of women, which in the past were so often excluded, and to understand the struggles and that women had to undergo in order to
- [WPA News Round-up – March 23, 2026](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-march-23-2026/) - Lots of ensembles are getting in their celebratory Women's History Month concerts this week! Performances have been a mix of classic names and pieces (Florence Price, Amy Beach) as well as the new and and some less familiar historic works. On March 22, the Community Music Center of Houston presented their Women's History Month concert
- [WPA News Digest – March 16, 2026](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-march-16-2026/) - There's a lot going on! On March 12th, Amy Beach's Gaelic Symphony returned to the Philadelphia Orchestra's repertoire. The orchestra last performed Beach’s Symphony in E minor, “Gaelic” in January 1919—the year before the passage of the 19th amendment. The performance highlights Women’s History Month and serves as part of the ensemble's efforts to promote
- [WPA News Digest - March 9, 2026](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-march-9-2026/) - Happy Women's History Month! And we hope you celebrated International Women's Day! So much is going on! On March 12th Palazzetto Bru Zane will begin a series of concerts that give three women composers a chance to shine: Louise Farrenc, Augusta Holmès and Clémence de Grandval. Their March concerts will all feature large works by
- [Amy Beach on the World Stage! ... and more, Happy IWD!!](https://wophil.org/amy-beach-on-the-world-stage-and-more-happy-iwd/) - In celebration of International Women's Day and Women's History Month, we are happy to highlight two important concerts happening this weekend! The Chicago Sinfonietta presents Still I Rise, a concert of all women composers, led by Mei-Ann Chen, on March 6 and 7. The concert features Marianna Martines' Sinfonia (1770), arguably the first Symphony composed
- [WPA News Digest – March 2, 2026](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-march-2-2026/) - Women's History Month has arrived! On March 1, Grace Lewis leads the Houston Women’s Chamber Orchestra (HWCO) in the Houston Professional Musicians' Association's 3rd Annual International Women's Month celebration. Lewis recently received the Houston Symphony's Excellence in Music Education Award (funded by the Spec Foundation); she is currently the Director of Orchestras at G.W. Carver
- [Feb. 28: PEN Women Composers celebrated!](https://wophil.org/feb-28-pen-women-composers-celebrated/) - A concert in New York City, Feb. 28, Winds of Change, Songs of Time is a concert celebrating the enduring musical legacy of women composers associated with the National League of American Pen Women. Organized as a journey through the four seasons, the program highlights works for voice, piano, strings, and chamber ensemble, spanning lyrical art
- [NEWS: We Publish Helen Hagan's Piano Concerto!](https://wophil.org/we-publish-helen-hagan/) - We’ve been remiss in celebrating Black History Month, but now we are ready to CELEBRATE!!! One of our big projects of 2025 was working with the Estate of Helen Hagan so that we could publish her 1912 Concerto in C minor! And this year we have the joyful project of telling the orchestral world that
- [WPA News Digest – February 23, 2026](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-february-23-2026/) - There's lots to listen to this week as we gear up for Women's History Month! Beginning on February 27th and running through March 1st, Tempesta di Mare will present its recital of Italian women’s music from the Baroque era at venues in the Philadelphia area, including Christ Church Christiana Hundred, Trinity @ 22nd, and Presbyterian Church
- [WPA News Digest - February 16, 2026](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-february-16-2026/) - More exciting news this week! On February 22, composer Stefania Turkevych will have the US premiere of two movements from her Symphony n. 1 (1937) by the Binghamton (NY) Community Orchestra. Turkevych (1898-1977) is Ukraine's earliest known female classical composer, and is considered a pioneer of Ukrainian classical music. Also a musicologist and Ukrainian folklorist,
- [WPA News Digest - February 9, 2026](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-february-9-2026/) - There's lots to listen to in February! Olga Neuwirth's new opera Monster's Paradise had its world premiere in Hamburg on February 1. Neuwirth, as described in The New York Times, "has spent her career composing music seeped in the fractious absurdity of contemporary life. Her compositions blend dizzying references to the classical repertoire and various
- [WPA News Digest - February 2, 2026](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-february-2-2026/) - There's a lot to listen to as we enter February 2026! On January 26th, Bachtrack released its classical music stats for 2025. They have named Anna Clyne and Caroline Shaw as two of the top 10 most-performed composers of 2025. The editors have noted that women composers have made notable gains since 2016: in 2016,
- [WPA News Digest – January 26, 2026](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-january-26-2026/) - By Kathleen McGowan There's lots to listen to this week, as well as a lot of concerts being canceled or postponed because of winter weather. Please take care if you're traveling to hear or perform live music! On January 25th, the Curtis Symphony Orchestra (Curtis Institute of Music) was scheduled to perform Missy Mazzoli's single-movement
- [Concerts Jan. 17 and 18, 2026](https://wophil.org/concerts-jan-17-and-18-2026/) - Two concerts re happening this weekend, that we wanted to be sure to mention – because we always love to highlight important programming! The brilliant pianist Asiya Korepranova brings Amy Beach’s Piano Concerto to life this weekend in Abilene, TX!! The concert takes place Sat. Jan. 17 – here’s the website of the Abilene Philharmonic, and
- [Seattle Philharmonic to perform U.S. premiere of Ruth Gipps’ Symphony n. 1](https://wophil.org/seattle-phil-gipps-symph-1-1942/) - Also featuring Jeanne Demessieux’ Poème, op. 9 for organ and orchestra (1949) Concert takes place Saturday Jan. 31, 2026, 2 pm By Liane Curtis Ruth Gipps (1921-1999) was a British composer whose work is beginning to receive wide recognition and performance. In the US, the work of the Seattle Philharmonic, and their Music Director Adam
- [WPA News Digest – January 12, 2026](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-january-12-2026/) - By Kathleen McGowan Lots going on in mid-January 2026! On January 17th, 2026, the Isle of Wight Symphony Orchestra will present a concert of music by pioneering female composers under the baton of guest conductor James Thomas. The orchestra opens the concert with Elizabeth Maconchy's Proud Thames coronation overture (1952–3), which has appeared previously in
- [WPA News Digest – January 5, 2026](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-january-5-2026/) - We're kicking off 2026 with a full slate of performances! The Prototype Festival (NYC) will be mounting performances from January 7 – 18 at various venues in New York City. Two of the planned works that will be performed are Rima Fand's Precipice (La Mama Experimental Theater Club, Jan 8–11) and Sarah Kirkland Snider's Hildegard
- [WPA 2025 in Albums – December 29, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-2025-in-albums-december-29-2025/) - By Kathleen McGowan Our year-end review of albums concludes with a series of compilations of music by women. Breaking Waves (BIS 2025) is the latest album by the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra (OCO), directed by Malin Broman. It features works by three women composers: Grace Williams' Sea Sketches, Grażyna Bacewicz's fourth String Quartet, and Johanna Müller-Hermann's String Quartet.
- [The Rose Garden and the Kennedy Center, by Another Name](https://wophil.org/the-rose-garden-and-the-kennedy-center-by-another-name/) - We are happy to welcome Miriam Capellan as returning Guest Blogger! Capellan is a Washington D.C. area public school music teacher, violist, and choral enthusiast. Her previous blogs with us are Let’s State Firmly “White Supremacy Has No Place Here” and A Composer Joins the Zoom Call. Mallory Miller and Luke Hall (both mentioned below)
- [WPA 2025 in Albums – December 22, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-2025-in-albums-december-22-2025/) - By Kathleen McGowan Our end-of-year review continues with a selection of four albums (!!) recorded this year by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. 2025 has seen them make a number of records dedicated to music by British women composers, historical and contemporary. In addition to these four, Errollyn Wallen: Orchestral Works appeared in our review of
- [WPA 2025 in Albums – December 19, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-2025-in-albums-december-19-2025/) - By Kathleen McGowen Our year-end review of albums continues with our second installment, featuring some offerings by contemporary composers. (Platoon, July 2025) Gabriela Ortiz: Yanga is the third album in the Los Angeles Philharmonic's series celebrating orchestral music from South and Central America. The orchestra is conducted by Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel. The
- [WPA 2025 in Albums – December 15, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-december-15-2025/) - During our end-of-year wrap-up WPA is looking back at some of albums of music by women released in 2025. The four albums featured today all highlight some of our very favorite composers, performers, and pieces. They've appeared frequently in our pages this year, and are in heavy rotation on our listening lists. In April 2025
- [WPA News Digest – December 8, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-december-8-2025/) - We hope you are keeping warm as you start this December week! The organization New York Women Composers (NYWC) has announced the 2025 recipients of their Seed Money Grants. The organization has awarded eight grants of $1000 each to support seven concert projects and one recording/streaming project. Among the projects that these grants will support are:
- [WPA News Digest – December 2, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-december-2-2025/) - December greetings, everyone! There's lots to listen to this week! On December 4th, the award-winning Miami University Symphony Orchestra (MUSO) will present its concert Women in Music - A Celebration of Women Composers under the direction of Maestro Ricardo Averbach. Their program includes: Jennifer Higdon’s Blue Cathedral and Helen Hagan’s Piano Concerto in C minor.
- [Ways to Support our Work!](https://wophil.org/support-our-work-childrens-book/) - Happy December!! In this season of giving, celebrating, and reflecting we are offering special gifts to those who support us in our work: with a donation of US$100 or more, receive one of these wonderful children's books --"Bea Breaks Barriers! How Florence Beatrice Price’s Music Triumphed Over Prejudice," by Caitlin DeLems, illustrated by Tonya Engel
- ["One Conductor A Day" at 5 Years!](https://wophil.org/one-conductor-a-day-at-5-years/) - We are celebrating five years of #oneconductoraday. Conductor Talia Ilan started this project to recognize and promote women conductors. It also promotes women in all leadership roles, in giving their work a context and wider recognition. In a world where women continually face inequality and challenges to their authority, it is important to celebrate those
- [WPA News Digest – November 24, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-november-24-2025/) - There's lots to listen to this week! Conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson had been scheduled to perform composer Vita Poleva's latest work Sophia at Kyiv's Philharmonic Hall, in early November 2025. The concert was cancelled at the last minute due to a Russian bomb attack. Wilson interviewed Poleva just before the cancelled concert (video below). Poleva is one
- [WPA News Digest – November 17, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-november-17-2025/) - Here's some recent news for your Monday! On November 14th, Paniz Far Youssefi became the first woman to conduct the Tehran Symphony Orchestra. It's a significant achievement in its own right, but even more when one considers how much women's professional and cultural lives are still heavily restricted in Iran. Adding that this was a
- [LunART Festival 2025-26 Begins! ](https://wophil.org/lunart-festival-2025-26-begins/) - Keeley Brooks, advocate for feminist ensembles, sends us this update about this year's LunART Festival Apply by Dec. 15 to the Composers Hub Program, mentored by Libby Larsen The LunART Festival kicks off the 2025-26 season on November 16th with their inaugural LunART Choir concert, directed by Jen Terhune Streit. Titled Metamorphosis, the concert celebrates
- [WPA News Digest — November 11, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-november-11-2025/) - Sarah Kirkland Snider's opera HILDEGARD premiered on November 5th in a production by the Los Angeles Opera, directed by Elkhanah Pulitzer. The production appeared in LA Opera’s Off Grand series that showcases new works. It ran through November 9 at The Wallis in Beverly Hills. Snider writes that she "wanted to write an opera that was
- [WPA News Digest – November 3, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-november-3-2025/) - Happy Monday! We highlight a few important upcoming performances for you! On November 6–9 pianist Michelle Cann performs Florence Price's Piano Concerto in One Movement with the New Jersey Symphony, under the direction of Tito Muñoz. Performances will take place in Newark, Princeton, and New Brunswick. The program will also include works by George Gershwin, Aaron
- [WPA News Digest – October 27, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-october-27-2025/) - Enjoy this week's interesting stories! On Sunday November 9, 2025 the Chamber Orchestra of Barrington at St. John's will present a concert of music by Beethoven, Bloch, and Farrenc. The headlining symphony on this concert will be the infrequently-heard Symphony No. 3 by Louise Farrenc, one of the great women composers of the Romantic era.
- [WPA News Digest – October 20, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-october-20-2025/) - We've gathered more exciting new stories to start your week! On October 17th the University of Maryland Baltimore County's Livewire 15 festival paid tribute to pioneering women composers. The program featured music by four innovative women composers: Sofia Gubaidulina, Joan Tower, Tania León, and Zosha Di Castri. (Music by Di Castri's Columbia University colleague, George Lewis,
- [WPA News Digest – October 13, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-october-13-2025/) - An exciting October keeps moving along! On October 10th, northern Irish composer Amelia Clarkson made her debut with her home orchestra—the Ulster Orchestra— at Belfast's Ulster Hall premiered her piece The Rain Keeps Coming. The piece is an Ulster Orchestra commission, significant in its own right as a commissioned composition from a woman composer and
- [WPA News Digest – October 6, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-october-6-2025/) - The fall concert season is in full swing! On October 18 at the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, in High Street, Oxford (UK) Samantha Ege will join the Oxford Chamber Players under the baton of Cayenne Ponchione-Bailey. She will perform as the featured soloist on Doreen Carwithen's Concerto for Piano and Strings. The
- [WPA News Digest – September 8, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-september-8-2025/) - Sorry! We were so busy celebrating Amy Beach's birthday, we are behind in getting our News Digest out! And speaking of celebrating Beach, two orchestras are including her delightful waltz Bal Masqué -- Savannah Philharmonic (USA), led by Keitaro Harada for their opening night on Sept. 13, and on Sept. 19, The Hallé, in Lincoln
- [WPA News Digest – September 29, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-september-29-2025/) - Here's our news, highlighting some of the interesting work being performed around the world! On its September 20th and 21st concert, the Houston Symphony included the world premiere of Julia Wolfe's Liberty Bell, a Houston Symphony co-commission, on its program. The concert also featured Florent Schmitt's Psalm 47 (1904) and Igor Stravinsky's Suite from the Firebird (1945
- [WPA News Digest - September 22, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-september-22-2025/) - On September 30th the Tryon Concert Association will open its 2025/26 season with a concert by Seraph Brass. Concertgoers will hear music by composer Reena Esmail as well as Jeff Scott, Grieg, Verdi, Mozart, Borodin, Liszt, and Gershwin. Esmail and Scott are contemporary composers who have written original work for brass; the others are all
- [WPA News Digest – September 15, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-september-15-2025/) - There's lots going on in the Pacific Northwest this week! Conductor Xian Zhang has officially taken the podium of the Seattle Symphony as its next music director. Zhang was the Seattle Symphony’s Music Director Designate during its 2024/2025 season, and she led the orchestra in programs featuring Holst's The Planets in HD, a new concerto
- [Elizabeth Maconchy: A Composer for Our Time](https://wophil.org/elizabeth-maconchy-a-composer-for-our-time/) - A Review-Essay by Kathleen McGowan, a PhD student at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her dissertation focusses on women’s musicking in 19th and early 20th century Britain. She is the Blogger-in-Chief from Women's Philharmonic Advocacy. The Life and Music of Elizabeth Maconchy. by Erica Siegel. Boydell & Brewer, 352 pp., £95, 2023, ISBN 9781837650514 Not many
- [September 5, Amy Beach’s 158th birthday!](https://wophil.org/september-5-amy-beachs-158th-birthday/) - TODAY is Amy Beach’s 158th birthday! Let’s celebrate recent successes, and upcoming important performances, as recognition of Beach’s music continues to grow! A few of the recent successes: March saw the release of a spectacular all-Beach orchestral music CD by the Munich Symphony Orchestra. Directed by Joseph Bastien, the recording features exciting first recordings (!!)
- [April 19 – Beach’s Concerto in NYC](https://wophil.org/april-19-beachs-concerto-in-nyc/) - It is no secret that we love Amy Beach’s music. After all we sponsor this Amy Beach website and have been diligently working to make sure that all of her music is available in published form. And for a composer who was also a virtuoso pianist, writing a piano concerto was to create a monumental
- [WPA News Digest – September 1, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-september-1-2025/) - Happy September, and to those in the US, Happy Labor Day! On September 5, 2025 the Bellissima Brass will open the 110th season of the Bellingham Music Club of Bellingham, Washington. Bellissima Brass is an all-women brass quintet—personnel: Michelle Rockwood, Karolyn Labes, Shelly Devlin, Amy Kavanagh, and Emma Eliason. The ensemble specializes in music for
- [WPA News Digest – August 25, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-august-25-2025/) - August is drawing to a close, and with it the summer hiatuses of most regularly-performing orchestras! While we at WPA eagerly await their return—hopefully with programs brimming with music by fabulous women composers—here's a preview of a few exciting evens of the 2025/2026 season. But first, an interesting event combining music with health & wellness.
- [An Interview With The Taki Alsop Fellowship](https://wophil.org/an-interview-with-the-taki-alsop-fellowship/) - We were grateful to have the opportunity to speak with Kristin Jurkscheit, Executive Director of the Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship, about the tremendous work that the organization has completed over the past 23 years, and the way their work is continuing to grow: Sarah: I was delighted to hear about this program, and I think
- [WPA News Digest – August 18, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-august-18-2025/) - As summer hurtles towards a close, we hope your week is off to a great start! On September 13, 2025 Karen Slack (soprano) will bring her concert celebration of historic African Queens to the Patricia Reser Center for the Arts, presented by Portland Opera (Oregon). Amid its celebration of African Queens are new works by
- [WPA News Digest – August 11, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-august-11-2025/) - On August 8th, the Community Women's Orchestra (Oakland, CA) announced that Samantha Burgess, the ensemble's 2024/25 season interim Music Director, will be their next Music Director beginning in Season 41 (2025/26). Samantha has joyfully led the ensemble in its recent programs, including the 40th Anniversary program this past spring. Under her leadership the orchestra is
- [<em>The Elements</em>  World Premiere – BBC Proms #1, 2025](https://wophil.org/the-elements-world-premiere-bbc-proms-1-2025/) - On Friday July 18, the BBC Symphony Orchestra opened the 131st season of the Proms festival. Amid the household names of classical repertoire—Mendelssohn’s Hebrides overture, Sibelius’s violin concerto, Vaughan Williams’s Sancta civitas—was a new addition: the world premiere of Errollyn Wallen’s The Elements, for large orchestra. It is one of five world premieres of her
- [WPA News Digest – August 4, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-august-4-2025/) - It's a great week for fans of music by women! The Schneider Concert Series in New York have announced a new series of six Sunday Matinee concerts for the 2025/26 season at The New School. The series will highlight music by American women composers on each concert, in addition to pieces by the musicians
- [WPA News Digest – July 28, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-july-28-2025/) - News to start your week! The Tapestry Opera’s Women in Musical Leadership (WML) program has announced two graduations and three new members, each with a constellation of musical achievements and awards to her name. Conductors Maria Fuller and Naomi Woo, members of the second cohort of conductors, have completed the program. Fuller was recently appointed
- [WPA News Digest – July 21, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-july-21-2025/) - This week four of our five stories feature women of African descent! The first performance of the African Women's Orchestra will take place during the Rewind, Remix, Reclaim Festival at the Goethe Institute, in Nairobi. The festival runs from 15–25 July 2025, commemorating the original 1985 Festival on the same dates. It will explore the
- [Composer Gena Branscombe: Exploring her Music with Orchestra](https://wophil.org/composer-gena-branscombe-exploring-her-music-with-orchestra/) - We are happy to share with you this essay by Kathleen Shimeta, music researcher, writer and mezzo soprano. Shimeta is co-founder and Chair of The Gena Branscombe Project, a not-for-profit organization that promotes the performance of Gena Branscombe’s art songs, chamber music, instrumental works and piano pieces. In addition The Gena Branscombe Project is awarding
- [WPA News Digest – July 14, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-july-14-2025/) - We hope you are having a beautiful summer! Here's some news to start your week! On Sunday July 20th at 7PM, BBC Radio Scotland will present an all-women composers program of classical music. The program will be available for streaming shortly after the live broadcast. It will feature music by a few classic 19th century
- [Beach's Concerto Comes to Life!](https://wophil.org/beachs-concerto-comes-to-life/) - It's one thing to know a piece from recordings and quite another to hear it come to life in performance. For a deepened understanding of Amy Beach's Piano Concerto, it helps to be familiar with the three songs that she drew on for themes. These are her own songs that she wrote around the time
- [WPA News Digest  — July 7, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-july-7-2025/) - News to start your week! The Women Conductors Program (UK) has announced that their program is taking a new step in their efforts to address gender imbalance in conducting. They have recently changed their name to Royal Philharmonic Society Conductors (RPS Conductors), and are accepting applications from "any conductors at a sufficiently high level who
- [2025 BBC Proms - By the Numbers](https://wophil.org/2025-bbc-proms-by-the-numbers/) - The 2025 BBC Proms season will begin on July 18 and continue through September 13, presenting dozens of concerts throughout the United Kingdom, and celebrating the tradition first started by Henry Wood in 1895. We conducted an in depth analysis of the 2024 Proms repertoire, and are doing so again this year to see how
- [WPA News Digest – June 30, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-june-30-2025/) - We hope your week is getting off to a great start! Here's some news! On June 25th, the Imani Winds played Valerie Coleman's Phenomenal Women (concerto for wind quintet and chamber orchestra) as part of a symphonic program at the Grant Park Music Festival. The Imanis premiered the concerto with the American Composers Orchestra in
- [Grammy for Price, Montgomery, Coleman, NY Youth Symphony! ... and thoughts on Tár](https://wophil.org/grammy-for-price-montgomery-coleman-ny-youth-symphony-and-thoughts-on-tar/) - Exciting News from the Grammys! the NY Youth Symphony has won a GRAMMY in the competitive category of Best Orchestral Performance, with their CD of music by Florence Price, Jessie Montgomery, and Valerie Coleman! Many are pointing out that it is the first time for a Youth group to win, BUT also it is a
- [WPA News Digest – June 23, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-june-23-2025/) - The summer season is in high gear now! The League of American orchestras held its 80th National Conference in Salt Lake City from June 11 – 13. During the conference, Marin Alsop was named the recipient of the Gold Baton Award—the highest distinction that the LAO offers. The award was established in 1948, was presented
- [Happy Juneteenth 2025!](https://wophil.org/happy-juneteenth-2025/) - We are so happy to celebrate Juneteenth! We have a few listening suggestions to help you get in the holiday spirit. It's wonderful to have multiple performances of Florence Price's Violin Concerto n. 2 to choose from, and a recent live performance by Randall Goosby with the Utah Symphony is temporarily available on their website
- [WPA News Digest - June 16, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-june-16-2025/) - Let's get your week rolling with some exciting news!! On June 13th, the New Ground Orchestra announced that it will perform a free concert at Penn State University on July 25, 2025 as part of the New Ground Orchestra Festival. This orchestra is an ensemble of professional women musicians from around the world, with the
- [WPA News Digest – June 9, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-june-9-2025/) - There's lots of news and listening this week! The Community Women’s Orchestra has announced Samantha Burgess’s appointment as Music Director, promoted from her position as Interim Director in the 2024–25 season. She is also Assistant Conductor for the Berkeley Symphony and Berkeley Community Chorus. Previously she has been Assistant Conductor of the Westerville Symphony (OH),
- [WPA News Digest – June 2, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-june-2-2025/) - There's lots to listen to this week! The Denver Young Artists Orchestra has announced the release of its live recording of Marion Bauer's Piano Concerto "American Youth" on Friday, May 30th. The DYAO is a recipient of a 2023 Women's Philharmonic Advocacy Performance grant. Marion Bauer (1882 – 1955) was a composer, music critic, teacher,
- [Happy Birthday, Louise Farrenc!](https://wophil.org/happy-birthday-louise-farrenc-2/) - May 31 we celebrate the birthday of one of the 19th century’s greatest composers, Louise Farrenc (1804-1875). It is so exciting to see Louise Farrenc’s music receiving so many performances, as she has been increasingly recognized in recent years. While The Women’s Philharmonic performed her Symphony n. 3 in the 1980s, and recordings of all
- [2025-2026 Conductors Report](https://wophil.org/2025-2026-conductors-report/) - As we work through the data collected for our annual Repertoire Report, we also are intentional in collecting information about who is leading these performances and ensembles. The resistance of “top” orchestras to performing with a woman conductor has been well documented, for instance dating back to the agitation of some members of the Baltimore
- [WPA News Digest – May 26, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-may-26-2025/) - So much going on!!! On June 1, 2025, Gity Razaz's Methuselah (In Chains of Time) will performed by the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra. The concert is titled "Triumph" and Razaz' work is "a lush and poignant reflection on the endurance of life inspired by an ancient Great Basin bristlecone pine tree growing high in the White
- [Opera: Sanctuary Song; and Class on Climate Change and Opera](https://wophil.org/opera-sanctuary-song-and-class-on-climate-change-and-opera/) - Two opera-themed topics today -- The opera Sanctuary Song is in its final weekend at Tapestry Opera in Toronto. The beautiful, one-hour production, designed for all ages, is about an elephant who journeys from circus performer to being released in a nature sanctuary. Based on a true story, the composer is Abigail Richardson-Schulte, and the
- [WPA News Digest – May 19, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-may-19-2025/) - Hope your week is off to a great start! On May 18 the Boston Orchestra Book Club presented its program "Sounds of the City," a discussion and performance of pieces by three important Boston composers, led by OBC founder and Music Director Reuben Stern. Among them were Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee's first piano Sonata (1986) in
- [WPA News Digest – May 12, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-may-12-2025/) - Exciting news for this week! The Delaware Symphony orchestra has announced the appointment of Michelle Di Russo as its sixth—and first female—music director. The search for a new director began in 2023, and Di Russo will begin leading the orchestra in its 120th season. Her first concert (as Music DIrector) with the orchestra will be
- [WPA News Digest – May 5, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-may-5-2025/) - Lots of exciting news this week! On May 4th, the Santa Barbara City College presented its women composers concert at the Garvin Theater on the SBCC campus. The program selections were an enviable combination of classic/historical composers and contemporary ones—all women, naturally. The contemporaries included: Lucy Simon's "How Could I Ever Know?" from The Secret
- [2023-2024 Season: By The Numbers](https://wophil.org/2023-2024-season-by-the-numbers/) - Sarah Baer offers her annual statistical study of the representation of women composers in the top 21 U.S. orchestras; also the representation and role of women conductors is examined. Liane Curtis also offered editorial input to this article. Symphony orchestras throughout the United States have wrapped up their 2022-2023 season and are looking ahead to
- [WPA News Digest – April 28, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-april-28-2025/) - Here's some news to start your week! Composer Karena Ingram (UMBC, 2016) has received a commission from the Virginia B. Toulmin Orchestral Commissions Program. The Toulmin Commissions Program is under the umbrella of the League of American Orchestras, and partners with the American Composers Orchestra to form the commissioning initiative. It connects orchestra consortiums that
- [April 28: Premiere of 1911 Suffrage Cantata](https://wophil.org/april-28-premiere-of-1911-suffrage-cantata/) - By Liane Curtis Music lovers might know the rich body of work – especially her symphonies and chamber music – by Swedish composer Elfrida Andrée (1841-1929). A premiere of an unknown but important work of hers will take place tomorrow at Whitman College in eastern Washington state (Monday, April 28, 7 PM Pacific time). A
- [WPA News Digest – April 21, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-april-21-2025/) - We have a range of exciting news this week! From April 10–13, 2025, the Perth Symphony Orchestra hosted its Women on the Podium initiative, a comprehensive symposium that promotes women's leadership and directorship in music (focusing on but not limited to, building conducting skills). The 2025 faculty mentors included Kris Bowtell (AU), Alice Farnham (UK), and Jessica
- [2025-2026 Concert Season: By the Numbers](https://wophil.org/2025-2026-concert-season-by-the-numbers/) - Our Annual Repertoire Report By Sarah Baer (and Liane Curtis) It’s a challenging time to be in the arts in the United States. It is unclear exactly how the next four years of the Trump administration is going to change the ways in which the arts are created, supported, and consumed in the United States.
- [WPA News Digest – April 7, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-april-7-2025/) - Our news items will brighten the start of your week! Violinist Phillippe Quint has produced a new album of music by women composers with the Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO). Milestones became available for purchase from Pentatone Records on April 4th, and features concertos by Lera Auerbach, Errollyn Wallen, and Lora Kvint. There is also an
- [AMY BEACH news!](https://wophil.org/amy-beach-news/) - Big Happenings with Amy Beach's music!! The Munich Symphony (Münchner Symphoniker), led by Joseph Bastian, has released a new all-Amy Beach recording, featuring her monumental Symphony op. 32 “Gaelic” and also three world premiere recordings: her concert arias Maria Stuart: Eilende wolken, Segler der Lüfte, op. 18 and Jephthah’s Daughter (C.L. Mollevant), op. 53, and
- [Grant Deadline Monday, April 7, 2025](https://wophil.org/grant-deadline-april-7-2025/) - The next deadline for our Grant program is Monday, April 7, 2025! Learn more and apply here! We have deadlines every other month. While the focus of the grants is still promoting historic women composers, we now can consider more flexible possibilities, including research projects and conferences, as well as concerts, recordings and performances.
- [WPA News Digest – March 31, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-march-31-2025/) - This week is a banner week for composer Valerie Coleman! The Kennedy Center has announced the world premiere of Valerie Coleman's piano concerto, co-commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra, for concerts on June 5th and 6th, 2025. Pianist Michelle Cann will perform the world premiere. Coleman's new concerto will appear on a program of music
- [WPA News Digest – March 24, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-march-24-2025/) - We've gathered some interesting news to start your week! On Sunday April 27, 2025 at 3PM local time, the Women's Orchestra of Arizona will give the final performance of their 2024/25 season. Their program, titled "Spring Awakening," has been billed as a "carnival of music" and will feature Hector Berlioz's Roman Carnival Overture and Beethoven's Symphony
- [WPA News Digest – March 17, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-march-17-2025/) - On March 13, 2025 composer Sofia Gubaidulina died from cancer at her home in Appen, Germany. She was 93 years old. The composer is best known for her apparently contradictory music style, balancing broad scopes and philosophical ideas with intimate and spiritual details that she seemed to conjure from the orchestra. A devout member of
- [WPA News – March 10, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-march-10-2025/) - We hope you had an exciting International Women's Day! Celebrations and Observations for Women's History Month continue! On March 13, 2025 the members of the UN Symphony Orchestra will give their Global Women in Music concert at the NYU Skirball Performing Arts Center, conducted by Esperanza and Josefa de Velasco. The concert is an official
- [WPA News – Happy Women's History Month! March 3, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-march-3-2025/) - There's lots of listen to and celebrate leading up to International Women's Day! On March 8, 2025 BBC Radio 3 will have a full day of live streamable programming to celebrate International Women's Day. "Saturday Morning" (9 AM -- all times are local UK times) will feature soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan; "Music Matters (1
- [WPA News Digest – February 24, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-february-24-2025/) - International Women's Day is coming up on March 8, 2025! In the news this week we note some ensembles that are marking the occasion, both on the 8th and and in the early weeks of Women's History Month. On March 2, 2025 at 3pm EST, pianist Katelyn Bouska will present her recital "Hildegard and Her
- [Thoughts on Black History Month](https://wophil.org/thoughts-on-black-history-month/) - In the USA and Canada, February is Black History Month -- We at WPA are firmly of the opinion that Black composers should be celebrated throughout the year, but we’ll never turn down an opportunity to highlight the tremendous history and future of Black composers. So check out our essay on Substack, which centers on
- [WPA News Digest – February 17, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-february-17-2025/) - Let's get your week going with some news! On February 14, the American Composers Orchestra (ACO) and the American Composers Forum (ACF) announced the inaugural recipient of their new Sorel Fellowship, in honor of pianist, educator, and philanthropist Claudette Sorel. The fellowship is designed to "create opportunities or a mid-career woman composer to workshop and premiere a
- [WPA News Digest – February 10, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-february-10-2025/) - News to start your week! Marin Alsop and Dalia Stasevska will both make their conducting debuts with the Berlin Philharmonic. Alsop will lead the orchestra from February 20–22, and Stasevska from February 27 – March 1. Alsop's program will feature four composers from all over the world and pieces depicting different landscapes: Brett Dean's Fire
- [WPA News Digest – February 3, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-february-3-2025/) - Let's get your week off to an exciting start with our news! As previously reported in Feminist in the Concert Hall, the National Symphony Orchestra will host the all-female Lorelei Ensemble in performances of Julia Wolfe's Her Story— a large-scale choral work with texts drawn from letters written by suffragettes—February 27 to March 1, 2025. Wolfe's piece
- [WPA News Digest – January 27, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-january-27-2025/) - While our focus at Women's Philharmonic Advocacy is on the work of women composers and musicians, we also recognize the importance of recognizing other marginalized groups including BIPOC composers. Thus we are highlighting today the world premiere of Edmond Dédé’s Morgiane (1887). This work is the first full-length opera written by a Black American composer
- [WPA News Digest – January 20, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-january-20-2025/) - Let's get your week of to a great start! On January 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM EST Dr. Caiti Beth McKinney will present "Beyond the Box, Into the Barlines: A Guided Tour of Orchestral Women Composers" in partnership with the Boulanger Initiative. This virtual presentation will preview BI's new guide to repertoire by sixteen women
- [WPA News Digest – January 13, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-january-13-2025/) - On January 25th, the Ensemble for These Times (E4TT) will present "Midnight Serenades," a highly-anticipated annual concert of chamber music by women and non-binary composers at the Center for New Music in San Francisco. This concert will begin the second half of the ensemble's 17th season. E4TT strives to promote music by 20th and 21st
- [WPA News Digest – January 6, 2025](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-january-6-2025/) - We hope your new year is off to a great start! On January 25th, 2025, the MusicaNova Orchestra will present its program "Resistance & Unity: Women Rise" at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. Among the works performed will be Reena Esmail's Zeher (for cello and strings) and Victoria Yagling's Suite for Cello and Strings,
- [WPA News Digest – December 30, 2024](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-december-30-2024/) - It looks like it's contemporary music and chamber music season as 2024 comes to a close and we begin 2025! With many orchestras between Christmas concerts, productions of The Nutcracker, and their upcoming 2025 programs, some smaller ensembles are getting a share of the stage lights. On December 15, 2024, Vox Feminarum presented a concert
- [WPA News Digest - December 23, 2024](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-december-23-2024/) - Happy Holidays, dear WPA readers! There's plenty of holiday cheer for women in music as 2024 comes to a close! Conductor Stephanie Childress will ring in the New Year on December 31 with the St Louis Symphony Orchestra. This concert will be her second return performance with the SLSO since her time as assistant conductor
- [Composers to Discover! Irene Britton Smith (and celebrating her birthday Dec. 22!)](https://wophil.org/composers-to-discover-irene-britton-smith/) - We are happy to continue our series, Composers to Discover! featuring essays by students in the Public Musicology Certificate Program at Columbus State University, coordinated by Dr. Reba Wissner. Today’s essay is by Riley Bryan, a recent graduate of the Schwob School of Music, Columbus State Univ., receiving a BA in Music as well as a Public Musicology
- [WPA News Digest – December 16, 2024](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-december-16-2024/) - It's an exciting time for women in classical music! Here's this week's update! Jessica Joy Harned has recently released her theatrical orchestra experience Classical Queens: Our Time, deriving from Harned's original research project-turned-podcast Classical Queens. Harned describes the show as: "the story of two black women who have become tired of the experiences that they
- [Imogen Holst's Concerto Enthusiastically Received](https://wophil.org/i-holst-concerto-premiere/) - Martin Ash, a free-lance violist/violinist in the London area who has previously provided us these insightful blog posts about Laura Maddelena Lombardini (here and here), was in thick of the recent world premiere performance of Imogen Holst’s Violin Concerto (1935), as section violist. So here is his report about the premiere of this work composed
- [WPA News Digest – December 9, 2024](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-december-9-2024/) - There's lots to celebrate as we prepare for the winter holidays! Videmus Inc., via a new arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, is publishing editions of composer Julia Perry's previously-unpublished music. The Estate of Julia A. Perry (which had to be established as a legal entity) assigned copyrights for her unpublished work to Videmus Inc. in
- [Support Our Work!!](https://wophil.org/support-our-work-2/) - We launched our "Giving Tuesday" fund-drive on our Substack account, and now bring it here as well, so everyone is reminded to donate, and has a chance to get our awesome thank you gifts! From: Dr. Liane Curtis, President, Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy Dear friend, We’re nearing the end of 2024 and we are still demanding equity
- [WPA News Digest – December 2, 2024](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-december-2-2024/) - There's lots to be excited about for women in music as we kick off December! (Including a few gift ideas.) On Wednesday November 27, the Raices Negras Trio performed at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. The group featured three members of the larger Raíces Negras Collective (pictured left): Dr.
- [WPA News Digest – November 25, 2024](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-november-25-2024/) - 2024 is wrapping up with plenty of chances to hear music by women composers! On November 24th, Imogen Holst's Concerto for Violin and Strings (1935) received its first public performance at St Andrew's Holborn in London by the Elgar Sinfonia of London alongside music by Sir Edward Elgar and Gerald Finzi. This premiere took place ninety years
- [Maria Theresia Paradis -- Conference continues Live and Online](https://wophil.org/maria-theresia-paradis-conference/) - The Conference on Maria Theresia Paradis continues Saturday Nov. 23 -- in person AND streaming at Mount Holyoke College. Titled: Reframing the Gaze: Maria Theresia Paradis, Blind Musicians, and Musical Culture Before & After Braille. Held on November 22-23, the event hosts papers and concerts, including a Schulkonzert - a reconstruction of one of Paradis’s
- [Composers to Discover! and BOTD: Zenobia Powell Perry (1908-2004)](https://wophil.org/zenobia-pp/) - Whaaaa??? Another composer named Perry? And also a long neglected African-American woman? In these pages you've read a lot about Julia Perry whose Centennial is being celebrated this year, but today let's recognize another Perry! Zenobia Powell Perry was born on this day in 1908 (probably). She died in 2004. Perry was her married
- [WPA News Digest – November 18, 2024](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-november-18-2024/) - There's lots going on for women in music this week! On November 10, 2024 the Cleveland Women's Orchestra opened its 90th anniversary season with a program of 19th century favorites: the overture from the Verdi/Solera collaboration Giovanna D'arco (Joan of Arc), Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in D, and Brahms Symphony No. 4. Founded in 1935 as one of
- [WPA News Digest — November 11, 2024](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-november-11-2024/) - Lots to celebrate for women in music! FIRST -- our revised Women's Philharmonic Advocacy Grant program is finally unveiled! Read all about it!! Learn more here! The Grants are now being offered every other month, with the first deadline December 9, 2024. The International Alliance for Women in Music announced the winners of its annual
- [The Women's Orchestra Project of Berlin](https://wophil.org/the-womens-orchestra-project-of-berlin/) - VAN Magazine of Germany recently published this interview with two key figures of the Women's Orchestra Project of Berlin. Author Merle Krafeld kindly gave permission for a translation to be published here. Liane Curtis and Laura W. Macy have edited the Google Translation. The original article is here. “This is the sea I want to
- [Listening for Election Day, 2024](https://wophil.org/listening-for-election-day-2024/) - Hello intrepid Women's Philharmonic Advocacy Readers! In honor of the US Election Day 2024, we have a shortened news brief for you featuring Stacy Garrop’s 2020 work The Battle of the Ballot. On this most important of American civic days (and the days leading up to it) please remember to get out and vote if
- [WPA News Digest – October 28 2024](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-october-28-2024/) - Lots of concerts in October and November have been/are featuring works by women composers! (We love to see it!) On November 3, 2024 the Golden Gate Symphony Orchestra & Chorus (San Francisco, USA) will perform the world premiere of Elijah’s Call: An Oratorio for an Abolitionist by composer Allison Lovejoy. The oratorio honors Lovejoy's ancestor
- [WPA News Digest — October 21, 2024](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-october-21-2024/) - We're here for another exciting week!! On Saturday October 26, the woman-founded Turkish American Orchestra (TAO) will give its debut performance in New York's Symphony Space under the direction Nisan Ak. Cofounded by Ak and technology executive Ulku Rowe, the orchestra promotes Western classical music by Turkish composers, Turkish classical music, and Turkish contemporary music in
- [WPA News Digest - October 14, 2024](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-october-14-2024/) - The concert season is in full swing! It’s no secret we adore Amy Beach and her music, but especially her monumental and passionate Piano Concerto in C-sharp minor, Op. 45. Was it “A Virtual Autobiography,” as has been suggested? If so, what a richly emotional life she had! Saturday, Oct. 19, hear it performed by soloist
- [WPA News Digest – October 7, 2024](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-october-7-2024/) - Marin Alsop and the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra have recently enjoyed a successful eleven-city tour of Japan. In addition to classics by Beethoven and Mozart, their program included Jessie Montgomery’s Strum—a work that might be familiar to WPA readers, as it's been featured in the News Digest in July. Her work Soul Force appeared
- [This weekend:  Marianne Martines and Judith Weir](https://wophil.org/this-weekend-marianne-martines-and-judith-weir/) - Marianne Martines’ works continue gaining recognition – Boston’s Horizon Ensemble performs her Symphony in C on Sunday, Oct. 6 – the concert is “pay what you can” and will stream, if you are unable to attend in person. More information here. The theme of the concert is FREEDOM, and Martines was fortunate to have the
- [Celebrating an African American Musician-Activist](https://wophil.org/celebrating-an-african-american-musician-activist/) - Two days of events are celebrating the 150th birthday of Maud Cuney-Hare (1874-1936) who lived and worked in the Boston for more than 30 years, to elevate and preserve the work of African Americans in classical and traditional music. The presentations will made available in video format. More information here https://maudcuneyhare.blog/schedule/ Maud Cuney-Hare's name may
- [WPA News Digest - September 30, 2024](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-september-30-2024/) - Exciting News!! Composer Jeanine Tesori has become the first woman composer to open a season for the Metropolitan Opera in its 141 years of operation. Her opera Grounded was given a gala premiere, starring mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo on September 23,as announced in this Met Press Release. The opera features a fighter pilot grappling with the
- [WPA News Digest – September 23, 2024](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-september-23-2024/) - So much going on as the fall season of concerts and events is in full swing! On September 27–28, Washington University in St. Louis will host a symposium on the music and work of Julia Perry. The event will include guest lectures, a roundtable, and a concert of Perry's music. The Roundtable and lectures on
- ["Is This America?" The Fannie Lou Hamer Opera Premieres](https://wophil.org/is-this-america-the-fannie-lou-hamer-opera-premieres/) - In Boston, a remarkable new opera is being premiered this weekend. “Is This America? The Fannie Lou Hamer Story,” composed by Mary D. Watkins, with a libretto by Watkins and Cerise Jacobs. In this interview that aired on Boston’s WBUR, Mary Watkins describes how she decided to write an opera on the Civil Rights Movement
- [Announcing the 1874 Project – Six Women Composers to be Commissioned](https://wophil.org/announcing-the-1874-project-six-women-composers-to-be-commissioned/) - Today’s author, Carolyn Watson is an Australian-born conductor who has been active in the US since 2013. She serves as Director of Orchestras at the University of Illinois while continuing to enjoy an active freelance career internationally. 2024 marks the 150th anniversary of the first orchestral performance at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. This student-led
- [WPA News Digest - September 16, 2024](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-september-16-2024/) - To start your week, here are a few recent stories that caught our attention! In a surprising announcement this week, the Berlin Philharmonic's concertmaster Vineta Sareika has announced that she will leave her position with the orchestra. Her final appearances with it as concertmaster will be in February 2025. Her departure will occur near the
- [WPA News Digest - September 9, 2024](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-september-9-2024/) - Our big news this week is the Seattle Symphony's announcement that Xian Zhang will be its next music director beginning in the 2025/26 season! This appointment distinguishes her as the first woman conductor to head a major orchestra on the US West Coast. Zhang will become music director designate during the 2024/25 season, and begin
- [Happy 157th Birthday, Amy Beach!](https://wophil.org/happy-157th-birthday-amy-beach/) - September 5 -- Happy Birthday, Amy Beach -- We are proud to be making much of her music available in our carefully edited and reasonably priced editions! and TBT -- 7 years since this wonderful article in the NY Times, to celebrate her 150th!! Much has happened since then, many performances of Beach's music, from
- [WPA News Digest – September 2, 2024](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-september-2-2024/) - As summer ends and fall educational and concert activities ramp back up, a lot of exciting news! From Sept. 15 - 18, The Buffalo Philharmonic and the International Conductors Guild will host a workshop for eight women conductors in Buffalo, New York. The four-day workshop will include roundtable discussions with JoAnn Falletta, Music Director of
- [The Amazing Mrs. Sirmen, aka Maddalena Laura Lombardini Sirmen](https://wophil.org/the-amazing-mrs-sirmen/) - Taking up our #ThinkOutsideTheBachs challenge, London-based musician Martin Ash offers engaging insights on the groundbreaking and innovative violinist-composer (also singer and keyboard player) Maddalena Laura Lombardini Sirmen (1745-1818). Martin Ash is a viola player, folk fiddler, and sometime mandolinist, arranger and composer. His website is www.martinashmusic.com. The first of two posts about Maddalena, it focuses
- [WPA News Digest - August 26, 2024](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-august-26-2024/) - Exciting news this week!! Errollyn Wallen has been appointed Master of the King's Music by King Charles! The Belize-born British composer and performer is the first black woman to be appointed to this position. She will succeed Dame Judith Weir, who was appointed Master of the Queen's Music by Queen Elizabeth II in 2014. Wallen
- [WPA News Digest - August 19, 2024](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-august-19-2024/) - Here's some news to start your week! In July, 2024 the all-female Firdaus Orchestra of Dubai performed for two days as part of the multi-day wedding celebration of Radhika Merchant and Anant Ambani, son of Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani. The festivities were a particularly prestigious platform for the young orchestra, which was formed in October
- [Listen to this!  Farrenc Symphony n. 3 streams!](https://wophil.org/farrenc-symphony-n-3-streams/) - We know Louise Farrenc is one of our favorite composers, and one we discuss frequently, but still it is not often that a major US orchestra performs her work AND makes it available in a streaming format! The American Symphony Orchestra, directed by Leon Botstein, performs Farrenc's Symphony n. 3 in G Minor, Op. 36,
- [WPA News Digest - August 12, 2024](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-august-12-2024/) - Beginning in September of 2024, Anja Bihlmaier will be the Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Bihlmaier has a longstanding relationship with the orchestra, and the players are keen to have her on the podium for her precision, musical intuition, and the relationships that she has build with ensemble members. She made her
- [WPA News Digest - August 5, 2024](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-august-5-2024/) - It's August already! We hope your week and your month are off to a great start! *News Flash* -- NYTimes article on Marianne Martines highlights the work of The Women's Philharmonic and its co-founder, conductor Nan H. Washburn The Northern Chamber Orchestra of the UK has announced two new directors: violinist Zöe Beyers will be
- [TBT: 1998, The Women's Philharmonic -- recognized by the Supervisors of San Francisco](https://wophil.org/tbt-1998-the-womens-philharmonic-recognized-by-the-supervisors-of-san-francisco/) - Throw-Back Thursday! The Women's Philharmonic received this historic commendation from Board of Supervisors of San Francisco, on Dec. 10, 1998. WHEREAS, The Women's Philharmonic is recognized locally and nationally as the only orchestra of its kind, dedicated to the promotion of women composers, conductors, and performers, and, WHEREAS, The Women's Philharmonic, over its 17-year history,
- [WPA News Digest – July 29, 2024](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-july-29-2024/) - Hope your week is off to a great start! Continuing the shake-up at the NYPhil, “A Power Vacuum at the Philharmonic” offers further reporting from Sammy Sussman at New York magazine. The April article “A Hidden Sexual-Assault Scandal at the New York Philharmonic” prompted a renewed investigation within the NYPhilharmonic and since then “at least
- [BBC Proms 2024: Repertoire Report](https://wophil.org/bbc-proms-2024-repertoire-report/) - The 2024 BBC Proms began on July 19 and will continue through September 14, bringing hundreds of hours of music to Royal Albert Hall and other venues across the United Kingdom. This annual event - which has presented music since Henry Wood founded the Proms in 1895 - is always a highlight of the classical
- [WPA News Digest – July 22, 2024](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-july-22-2024/) - We hope you are enjoying your summer! Here are a few of the exciting things happening!! On July 23 from 4:00 to 5:30 PM composer Nathalie Joachim will offer a Master Class in the Visiting Masters – Composition series at the Grant Park Music Festival (Chicago). The following night (July 24 at 6:30 pm central
- [Maria Antonia Walpurgis at 300!](https://wophil.org/maria-antonia-walpurgis-at-300/) - Maria Antonia Walpurgis has turned 300, and we think the Princess could use a little more fanfare, please!! Baptized Maria Antoina Walpurgis Symphorosa, she was born at Nymphenburg Palace in Munich (18 July 1724). Her titles included Princess of Bavaria and Electress of Saxony, and she she received an outstanding education, including painting, writing poetry, and
- [WPA News Digest – July 15, 2024](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-july-15-2024/) - News to start your week on another sultry Monday! On Thursday July 25th at 7:00 PM, the fellows of the Classical Tahoe Academy will perform a concert celebrating women composers with members of the Classical Tahoe Orchestra at the Ricardi Pavilion at Sierra Nevada College. This concert is part of their Chamber Music at Classical
- [WPA News Digest: July 8, 2024](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-july-8-2024/) - Hope you are keeping cool this July! Here's some news! The Chineke! Orchestra announced its 2024–2025 season. On October 9th in the Queen Elizabeth Hall at Southbank Centre (London) they will perform Eleanor Alberga’s Overture, Jupiter's fairground, Avril Coleridge-Taylor’s Sussex Landscape Op. 27, Valerie Coleman’s Concerto for Wind Quintet & Chamber Orchestra “Phenomenal Women” which
- [Composers to Discover! Laura Valborg Aulin -- a “Tableaux” of Her Life and Music](https://wophil.org/composers-to-discover-laura-valborg-aulin/) - We are happy to continue our series, Composers to Discover! featuring essays by students in the Public Musicology Certificate Program at Columbus State University, coordinated by Dr. Reba Wissner. Today's essay is by Brandon Tharp. Brandon is completing an MM in choral conducting at the Schwob School of Music, Columbus State Univ., where he also
- [WPA News Digest, July 1, 2024](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-july-1-2024/) - A few news items to start your week! On June 24th the latest in oboist Kate Rendall’s ongoing quest for justice from the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra (NZSO) was reported on social media. Rendall has been appealing to the NZSO to investigate a previous member—her former oboe teacher—on issues of serious sexual misconduct, for the
- [Ruth Schonthal at 100](https://wophil.org/ruth-schonthal-at-100/) - This week will be celebrating the life and achievements of composer Ruth Schönthal, in honor or her centennial birthday! While there are many important recordings of chamber and solo works by Schönthal, We have been unable to find any readily sharable recording of her music for large ensemble. Please help us out if you can
- [It’s Time to HEAR: Ruth Schonthal – Celebrating the 100th Birthday](https://wophil.org/its-time-to-hear-ruth-schonthal-100th-birthday/) - We love Ruth Schonthal’s music – what we’ve been able to hear of it! (Spotify playlist in this post we did a few days ago). That has been a range of her piano and chamber works, and songs. Of her music for larger ensembles – her operas and orchestral work – we have not been
- [WPA News Digest, June 24th 2024](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-june-24th-2024/) - The summer of 2024 is shaping up to be a summer of women conductors—a welcome sight in a classical music landscape that has famously been hostile to women on the podium. On July 5 & 6, Dalia Stasevska will lead the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in a program of Finnish music: Sibelius’s Symphony No. 5, Einojuhani
- [Listening Guide: Errollyn Wallen](https://wophil.org/listening-guide-errollyn-wallen/) - By Kathleen L. McGowan Today, by way of observing Juneteenth in the United States, we are celebrating the work of composer and performer Errollyn Wallen. This listening guide will direct newcomers to Wallen’s music toward pieces that we hope they will enjoy, as well as help those who already know her work to find some
- [WPA News Digest: June 17, 2024](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-june-17-2024/) - Here's an update to start your week! The National Women’s Music Festival begins this week, June 20 to 23rd, 2024 in Madison, WI. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Festival, the NWMF Orchestra presents a program of women’s work in music led by Music Director Nan Washburn. We previously reported on the festival here, the program
- [Juneteenth Celebrations with Orchestral Music (2024)](https://wophil.org/juneteenth-celebrations-with-orchestral-music-2024/) - We'd like to highlight just a few of the many many Juneteenth Celebrations that will be taking place across the US over the next week, with some orchestras also featuring women composers. The Minnesota Orchestra’s Juneteenth Celebration is today Friday June 14, and includes Margaret Bonds’ Benediction from her Montgomery Variations, and William Grant Still’s
- [Women Conductors in the 2024-2025 Season](https://wophil.org/women-conductors-2024-2025-season/) - By Sarah Baer We recently published our Repertoire Report for the coming concert season - you can read the full piece here. The unsurprising truth is that top tier organizations are actively working backwards – regressing – in terms of equitable programming, with many ensembles performing fewer works by women in the coming season than
- [WPA News Digest: June 10, 2024](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-june-10-2024/) - Start your week with some news highlights! Four women composers had their work workshopped as part of an EarShot composer-orchestra networking program, June 4 -6, 2024. The collaboration included the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra (ROCO) and the American Composers Orchestra (ACO), and culminated in a performance on Friday June 7 as part of the League
- [Composers to Discover! Ida Moberg's Transfiguration](https://wophil.org/composers-to-discover-ida-moberg/) - We continue our series, Composers to Discover! featuring essays by students in the Public Musicology Certificate Program at Columbus State University. Violinist Samuel Vargas Teixeira has an international career as a performer and recently graduated from the Schwob School of Music at Columbus University (Georgia) with a Masters in Music. In 2021 he won first
- [WPA News Digest: June 3, 2024](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-june-3-2024/) - On June 7–9, 2024 Melissa White (soloist, violin) and Carolyn Kuan (conductor) will appear with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra. They will close the orchestra’s 80th Masterworks Season with Carlos Simon’s Amen!, Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 26, and Holst’s The Planets. White is the HSO’s 2023-2024 Joyce C. Willis Artist in Residence. The
- [Happy Birthday, Louise Farrenc!](https://wophil.org/happy-birthday-louise-farrenc/) - We love Louise Farrenc and all her wonderful music! In honor of her birthday today, May 31, we are featuring a Youtube video introduction about Farrenc, recorded by Dr. Liane Curtis in 2021 and lightly edited for this re-release. This TIMELINE is referred to in the Youtube video at 4:36 Louise Farrenc (born Jeanne-Louise Dumont)
- [Celebrating Louise Farrenc's Symphonies](https://wophil.org/celebrating-louise-farrencs-symphonies/) - By Sarah Baer We are remembering the life and work of French composer, pianist, and educator Louise Farrenc. This is fitting not just because her birthday is May 31 (she would be 219 this year), but because WPA Publishing has released new editions of two of her fantastic symphonies. Born Jeanne-Louise Dumont on May 31,
- [By the Numbers: 2024-2025 Repertoire Report](https://wophil.org/by-the-numbers-2024-2025-repertoire-report/) - By Sarah Baer Our favorite spring tradition at Women‘s Philharmonic Advocacy is collecting the season announcements from America‘s top orchestras. This process, which is always full of trepidation and hope as we gather data that indicates the direction of classical music programming in the United States, is extensive. Which makes it all the more heartbreaking
- [WPA News Digest: May, 27, 2024](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-may-27-2024/) - The Orchestra Book Club of the greater Boston area will perform Grażyna Bacewicz’s Symphonic Variations and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini on May 27 at 3:00 PM as part of Arts at the Armory in Somerville, Massachusetts. The event is free and open to the public. A $20 donation is welcome, to
- [<strong>Celebrating Amy Beach</strong>](https://wophil.org/celebrating-amy-beach-2/) - Celebrate the Great American Composer and Pianist! Please Visit our dedicated Amy Beach page at https://www.amybeach.org/ https://www.amybeach.org/
- [WPA News Digest: May 20, 2024](https://wophil.org/wpa-news-digest-may-20-2024/) - The petition to release Cara Kizer from her NDA imposed by the New York Philharmonic continues to accrue signatures. In addition, the open letter to the New York Philharmonic from the Composers Collective continues to raise awareness about the petition. The ongoing legal obstacles that prevent Kizer from speaking openly about her experiences help maintain
- [Composers to Discover! Maria Teresa Prieto -- A Composer between Two Worlds](https://wophil.org/composers-maria-teresa-prieto/) - #We are happy to launch a new series, Composers to Discover! featuring essays by students in the Public Musicology Certificate Program at Columbus State University. Coordinated by Dr. Reba Wissner, this unique program that trains students with real-world experiences in writing and research in a broad range of music topics. Our series of essays offer
- [Live Protest against the NYPhil tomorrow May 20](https://wophil.org/live-protest-against-the-nyphil-tomorrow-may-20/) - Just a quick update that Katherine Needleman and Lara St. John are organizing a protest tomorrow at the NY Philharmonic about the orchestra’s treatment of hornist Cara Kizer. The peaceful protest will take place at Lincoln Center, David Geffen Hall, at Noon. The protesters are urging the NYP to release from Kizer from her NDA
- [Composers to Discover!  Julia Smith -- choosing operas instead of children](https://wophil.org/composers-to-discover-julia-smith/) - We continue our series, Composers to Discover! featuring essays by students in the Public Musicology Certificate Program at Columbus State University. Today's essay is by Madison Witzke, a Columbus-(GA)-born and raised native attending the Schwob School of Music. She is a music education major, is working towards a Public Musicology Certificate, and plays clarinet. Julia
- [Culture of Intimidation in the New York Philharmonic](https://wophil.org/culture-of-intimidation-in-the-new-york-phil/) - A culture of sexual harassment continues to thrive in the world of classical music, as has often been documented, for instance here in 2018. A new article in Vulture, the culture section of New York Magazine, details a case that began in 2010, when the New York Philharmonic was performing in Vail CO. One of
- [Listen to This: Margaret Bonds](https://wophil.org/listen-to-this-margaret-bonds/) - Margaret Bonds (March 3, 1913 - April 26, 1972), was an American composer, pianist, and educator. She is most remembered for her collaborations with poet Langston Hughes. Born and raised in Chicago, she was a student of Florence Price and William Dawson. She began studies at Northwestern University when she was only 16 years old,
- [Happy 100th Birthday, Julia Perry!](https://wophil.org/happy-100th-birthday-julia-perry/) - March 25 -- Happy 100th Birthday, Julia Perry! Her Study for Orchestra was the first work by a black woman to be recorded by a professional orchestra. (Listen here) Her powerful Stabat Mater is performed here. The Akron Symphony has been researching and performing a wide range of her music, including some world premieres, as
- [Julia Perry's Violin Concerto Revealed](https://wophil.org/julia-perrys-violin-concerto-revealed/) - By Dr. Liane Curtis On Dec. 2, 2022 I had the opportunity to hear – more than hear, of course, to experience -- the Experiential Orchestra in New York City (you will recall that EXO brought us the magnificent recording of Ethel Smyth’s The Prison, which won a Grammy in 2021). This was not something
- [Are women composers STILL excluded from orchestral programming?](https://wophil.org/are-women-composers-still-excluded-from-orchestral-programming/) - A look at U.S. data: Our take on the 2016-2017 Season 2015-16 data gathered by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Our take on the 2015-16 Season 2014-15 data gathered by the Baltimore SO 2010-2011 – 2009-2010 – 2008-2009
- [Julia Perry Festival in New York City](https://wophil.org/julia-perry-festival/) - The Julia Perry Festival Centenary Celebration and Festival in New York City is taking place March 13-16. Julia Perry (1924-1979) is a significant composer who has been known by only a very small fragment of her creative output, although she had a recognized period of success in the 1950s and early ‘60s and kept writing
- [Happy Women's History Month!](https://wophil.org/happy-womens-history-month/) - We are thrilled that many concerts are taking place to celebrate Women's History Month – As our friend conductor Wilbur Lin says, “Elevating women artists should not be limited to a single month, but #WomenHistoryMonth is always a good time to review how we are doing!” And, we add, to celebrate when celebration is called
- [2024 Women Composers Festival of Hartford](https://wophil.org/2024-women-composers-festival-of-hartford/) - What better way to kick off Women’s History Month than a festival of work by women composers? The Women Composers Festival of Hartford will hold their annual event this weekend (March 1 & March 2, 2024) on the campus of Central Connecticut State University. Each year WCFH brings together musicians, composers, scholars, and music enthusiasts
- [Listen to This: Dorothy Howell](https://wophil.org/listen-to-this-dorothy-howell/) - Dorothy Howell (February 25, 1898 - January 12, 1982) was an English composer and pianist, who earned great acclaim during her lifetime. Born in Birmingham, Howell was a student at the Royal Academy of Music when she was 15 years old. The work that led her towards fame was her symphonic poem Lamia, linked below,
- [Listen to This: Ruth Gipps](https://wophil.org/listen-to-this-ruth-gipps/) - Ruth Gipps (February 20, 1921-February 21, 1999) was an English composer, oboist, pianist, conductor, and educator. Her tremendous compositional output includes five symphonies, seven concerto, and a vast number of chamber and choral works. Gipps was a child prodigy, winning competitions in performance ad composition when she was still quite small. She attended the Royal
- [Listen to This: Elsa Barraine](https://wophil.org/listen-to-this-elsa-barraine/) - Elsa Barraine (February 13, 1910 - March 20, 1999) was a French composer who worked in Paris just after the neoclassicist movement of Les Six, Ravel, and Stravinsky. Born into a musical family, she attended the Paris Conservatorie, and won the Prix de Rome in 1929. During her lifetime she was highly regarded, considered to
- [Winners of our 2023 Performance Grants!](https://wophil.org/winners-of-our-2023-grants/) - Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy is happy to announce the five winners of our 2023 Performance Grants: Professional Ensembles Boston Landmarks Orchestra Worthington Chamber Orchestra (Ohio) Community Ensembles Seattle Philharmonic Horizon Ensemble (Boston MA) Youth Ensemble Denver Young Artists Orchestra We received 26 applications for this program, which in its post-pandemic revision, offers five awards of $5,000,
- [2023 New Recording Wrap Up](https://wophil.org/2023-new-recording-wrap-up/) - Even as we look forward to the concerts, projects, and music that lie ahead in the new year, let’s reaffirm New Year’s resolutions to listen to more works by women composers and have a look back at some of the best classical albums to come out of 2023. It’s time to look and listen beyond
- [Listen To This: Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté](https://wophil.org/listen-to-this-sophie-carmen-eckhardt-gramatte/) - Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté (1899-1974) was born on January 6. This marks the 50th year of her death. Born in Russia, Eckhardt-Gramatté lived across Europe before becoming a Canadian citizen later in her life. She was a composer as well as a virtuosic pianist and violinist. During her performing career she played with The Philadelphia Orchestra and
- [The "Female Beethoven" rediscovered in north Germany!](https://wophil.org/female-beethoven/) - "The Norwegians have their Grieg, The Finns their Sibelius, the Poles have their Chopin. And WE have Emilie Mayer – we just didn’t know it until now!" So proclaimed the northern German Nordkurrier in May 2012, when the Neubrandenburger Philharmonie celebrated the 200th anniversary of Emilie Mayer’s birth. Despite being very prolific and celebrated in her
- [We are in this for the Long Haul! AND a few of our successes of 2023!](https://wophil.org/we-are-in-this-for-the-long-haul/) - "I've never changed the world before, I'm not really sure how long it takes." Marge Simpson We at Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy have been working to change the world of orchestral music for a long time. We are in it for the long run. We know this is not a fad or a “flavor-of-the-month.” We are
- [Expanding the Music Theory Canon -- new textbook](https://wophil.org/expanding-the-music-theory-canon/) - An important new book is being released today! Expanding the Music Theory Canon: Inclusive Examples for Analysis from the Common Practice Period by Dr Paula Maust is a print volume drawn from her Website of the same name. Providing selections by women and BIPOC composers, 255 musical examples are organized topically and include excerpts as
- [The Absolutely Essential Work of The Women's Philharmonic: Holding On To Women's Music History By A Thin, Fraying Thread](https://wophil.org/the-absolutely-essential-work-of-the-womens-philharmonic-holding-on-to-womens-music-history-by-a-thin-fraying-thread/) - We originally published this post on Feb 26, 2021 and are now reposting, since it is so important to our work! Guest author Mary Purpura completed an MA Thesis about The Women's Philharmonic in 2016. Her research provided an important history of our founding organization, and we encouraged her to draw from her thesis and
- [All Hail The Tenth Muse! Part 2](https://wophil.org/all-hail-the-tenth-muse-part-2/) - By Dr. April Lynn James. Part 1 is published here My bestselling book,* The Tenth Muse: How Maria Antonia Advanced the Pastoral Opera, is a major revision of the dissertation I completed in 2002. Why did I not publish it then? I had other things to do with my life at the time. I had just
- [Monday Link Roundup: Oct. 23, 2023](https://wophil.org/monday-link-roundup-oct-23-2023/) - ICYMI -- Composer Courtney Bryan has been awarded a MacArthur "Genius" Grant -- WRTI has this report. We mourn the death of Jazz great Carla Bley. Her varied and prolific output included the sprawling jazz opera "Escalator Over The Hill." Listen on NPR. An important new book The Cambridge Companion to Amy Beach, is coming soon
- [Chen Yi Premiere Streams!](https://wophil.org/chen-yi-premiere-streams/) - [Update: Chen Yi's role in the US-China Music Institute is discussed here; "U.S.-China forum calls for revitalizing relations through music"] Chen Yi's Symphony no. 3 My Musical Journey to America will will stream live in its east coast premiere tonight (Fri. Oct. 6), from the Bard College Conservatory, as part of the 6th annual US-China
- [Featured Guest Blogger: Virginia Eskin reviews new book on Bauer Sisters](https://wophil.org/eskin-reviews-bauer-sisters/) - This article was reprinted in April 2020, by the Boston Musical Intelligencer, with the provoking title "An American Scriabin?" Today's Featured Guest Blogger is the renowned pianist, educator and radio journalist Virginia Eskin. A Boston and New Hampshire resident, Eskin is a long-time champion of the works of American and European women composers. She was the
- [Morfydd Owen's Life and Work](https://wophil.org/morfydd-owens-life-and-work/) - This week we are celebrating the life and music of Welsh composer Morfydd Owen, who was born October 1, 1891. A brilliant pianist, singer, and composer, Owen’s tremendous oeuvre of work has been underperformed since her tragic death in 1918, when she was only 26 years old. As more of Owen’s works have gained the
- [Chicago Sinfonietta performs Regina Harris Baiocchi’s Muse for Orchestra](https://wophil.org/chicago-sinfonietta-performs-regina-harris-baiocchis-muse-for-orchestra/) - Tonight, October 7, the Chicago Sinfonietta performs Regina Harris Baiocchi’s "Muse for Orchestra," led by Music Director Mei Ann Chen. Their Oct. 5 performance of the work, described as “a powerful tribute to the muses who inspire and guide us,” was its Chicago premiere. The Chicago-based Baiocchi is also a poet and author as well
- [Celebrating Vivian Fine](https://wophil.org/remembering-vivian-fine/) - Today, Sept. 28, 2023, is the 110th birthday of Vivian Fine. This blog was originally published on March 20, 2011, titled Remembering Vivian Fine. Sunday, March 20th (2011), marked the 11th anniversary of the death of Vivian Fine (1913-2000) and the loss of a truly great American composer. Fine was a prolific composer who completed
- [Monday Link Roundup: Sept. 25, 2023](https://wophil.org/monday-link-roundup-sept-25-2023/) - Two Important Festivals: The Women Composers Festival of Tübingen begins on Friday Sept. 29. With a focus on the 19th Century: Tübingen composer Josephine Lang and three contemporaries (Emilie Mayer, Luise Adolpha Le Beau and Ethel Smyth), it continues 10 days and includes more than 50 events, including concerts and a musicological symposium. We are
- [Marianna Martines and Her Symphony](https://wophil.org/marianna-martines-and-her-symphony/) - Marianna Martines (1744-1812) is considered to be among the most acclaimed and prolific composers in Vienna during her lifetime. She was friends with Mozart, and Haydn (who lived on the top floor of her apartment block) gave her keyboard lessons. Mozart and Haydn attended her concerts, and it is believed that they also each dedicated
- [2023 WPA Performance Grant Applications are Open!](https://wophil.org/2023-wpa-performance-grant-applications-are-open/) - Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy is a non-profit organization which (since 2008) has been demanding equity for women composers and celebrating the legacy of The Women's Philharmonic (1980-2004). Applications for 2023 WPA Performance Grants opened on September 1, 2023. Community, professional, and youth orchestras in the United States are eligible. Those that have demonstrated an established commitment
- [All Hail The Tenth Muse!  Part 1](https://wophil.org/all-hail-the-tenth-muse-part-1/) - By Dr. April Lynn James Affectionately known as The PhDiva!!!, Dr. April is a classically trained soprano with a PhD from Harvard best known for her groundbreaking work returning operas composed by women to the world’s stages. She survived her Harvard doctoral studies—aka, “boot camp for book lovers”—by getting away from the computer and engaging
- [Back-to-School Resources](https://wophil.org/back-to-school-resources/) - [Updated Aug. 27 2023] As teachers and students alike get ready to head back to classrooms, rehearsal spaces, and studios, it’s a wonderful time to think about the numerous ways that composers outside of the standard dead, white, male canon can be learned about, performed, and appreciated. We at WPA firmly believe it’s never too
- [Experiential Orchestra will Record Julia Perry's Violin Concerto](https://wophil.org/experiential-orchestra-julia-perrys-violin-concerto/) - By Sarah Baer When we think of the future of classical music - of how this tradition will adapt and change for the better in our digital age - ensembles can turn to the Experiential Orchestra as a model for how to move forward. This fabulous ensemble based in New York City has curated not
- [Tonight, Boston Landmarks Orchestra concert “Seen-Unseen: The Symphonic Legacy of Black American Women”](https://wophil.org/tonight-symphonic-legacy-of-black-american-women/) - Tonight, Boston Landmarks Orchestra presents “Seen-Unseen” -- Wednesday, July 26 at 7:00pm, at Boston’s Hatch Shell on the Charles River. The concert includes the Overture to Shirley Graham’s opera “Tom-Tom,” which was performed in Cleveland in 1932. Dr. Lucy Caplan writes: “Ten thousand spectators came on the first night; fifteen thousand more on the second.
- [Tania León's Stride: A Review](https://wophil.org/tania-leons-stride-a-review/) - When considering that the canon of western art music is based in a system of white supremacy and patriarchy, it is a sad truth that most of the music that is presented in classrooms and concert halls is written by dead, white, men. Scholars continue to spend great amounts of time in archives, studying scores,
- [Link Roundup: June 26, 2023](https://wophil.org/link-roundup-june-6-2023-2/) - Start the week by catching up with some of the exciting and GOOD news!! San Francisco Opera has staged its first work by a woman composer, El último sueño de Frida y Diego by Gabriela Lena Frank and (librettist) Nilo Cruz. Also the first production of a work in Spanish, the opera was premiered last
- [The Programming of BIPOC Composers](https://wophil.org/the-programming-of-bipoc-composers/) - By Sarah Baer Our 2023-2024 repertoire report for the top 21 orchestras in the US (as determined by operating budget) is out -- with not-great news about the current state of programming as it relates to works by women and non-binary composers. In this post I’m returning to the same data set and looking at
- [500+ Operas by Women: Perform one today!](https://wophil.org/500-operas-by-women-perform-one-today/) - [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 worked on the update) to comment. “Why is nobody performing operas by female composers?” asked
- [Link Roundup: June 6, 2023](https://wophil.org/link-roundup-june-6-2023/) - Readers have bemoaned the lapse of our Link Roundup feature, SO, we are going to try and get back in the swing of it! It just seems like there is SO much important news sometimes, and we can't claim to have a complete grasp on it -- but here are a FEW important and exciting
- [On The Passing of Kaija Saariaho](https://wophil.org/on-the-passing-of-kaija-saariaho/) - We are saddened to hear about the death of Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, who passed away at home in Paris overnight. In October 2022 there were celebrations around the world for her 70th birthday. Immediately prior to her passing, Saariaho completed a concerto for Trumpet which will be premiered in Helsinki in August, 2023. We
- [A few events, May 5-7, 2023](https://wophil.org/a-few-events-may-5-7-2023/) - There are so many exciting concerts happening in this busy time! We hope you get to take in a few -- or more! Just to highlight some very special events -- May 5-6, the Boulanger Initiative has their annual WOCO Fest "Awaken!" -- celebrating Women and gender-marginalized Composers! The Festival takes place in Bethesda Maryland
- [Joan Tower & Tania Léon in Conversation at LAO](https://wophil.org/joan-tower-tania-leon-lao-2019/) - By Chris A. Trotman, WPA's Director of Music Publications. Thank you to composer Dosia McKay (@dosiamckay) for sharing her photo of the event (Tower, left, and Léon) During the 2019 League of American Orchestras Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, I had the privilege of attending a discussion and Q/A session with composer-conductor-pianist-educators Joan Tower and Tania
- [Marion Bauer: Educator and Composer](https://wophil.org/marion-bauer-educator-and-composer/) - Marion Bauer (1882-1955) was born in Washington state the youngest of seven children to working class immigrant parents. But even though resources were limited, the Bauers supported their daughter's musical aptitude. Though she studied extensively, including being the first American to study with Nadia Boulanger, Bauer never earned a formal degree for her music education.
- [Happy Birthday, Chen Yi!](https://wophil.org/happy-birthday-chen-yi/) - The remarkable Chinese American composer Chen Yi turns 70 today! See our recent features on her here -- January Composer-of-the-Month and here, on some performances of her music taking place.
- [BBC Announces ‘New Strategy’ and Closes the BBC Singers](https://wophil.org/bbc-closes-bbc-singers/) - Dr. Amy Zigler (a musicologist and pianist and serves as Associate Professor of Music at Salem College) recently wrote about attending a recording session in the U.K. Today she has an update about a devastating piece of news from the British cultural landscape. UPDATE: Responding to public outcry, the BBC has cancelled its decision to
- [Smyth's <em>Der Wald</em> in forthcoming recording!](https://wophil.org/smyth-der-wald-recording/) - By Dr. Amy Zigler, an Ethel Smyth scholar and Associate Professor of Music at Salem College. She will be speaking about the recording, the female characters, and issues of agency in Der Wald at the Operatic Feminisms symposium on March 25, 2023, at Columbia University. Event info here. On January 10-12, 2023, I had
- [WINNERS Announced of our 2022 Grant Program!](https://wophil.org/winners-2022-grant-program/) - From: Liane Curtis (President), and Sarah Baer (Director of Research), Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy is delighted to announce the five winners for the their revised grant program: Akron Symphony Orchestra Chamber Orchestra of the Springs (Colorado) Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras Portland Youth Philharmonic (Oregon) Seattle Collaborative Orchestra WPA looks forward to working with
- [Composer of the Month - Modesta Bor (1926-1998)](https://wophil.org/cotm-modesta-bor/) - By Elizabeth de Brito After a paralysing illness derailed a bright career as a concert pianist, Modesta Bor found passion and purpose as a composer, emerging as one of the most significant musical figures in 20th century Venezuela. Not just through her glittering compositional career but also through her work as an educator, Modesta Bor influenced
- [Beach work Premiered in WPA Edition](https://wophil.org/beach-work-premiered-in-wpa-edition/) - By Liane Curtis Our new edition of Amy Beach’s concert aria “Jephthah’s Daughter” was premiered last week. The edition is part of our project to make high-quality, engraved critical editions available for ALL of Beach’s music. We knew that “Jephthah’s Daughter” was certainly a rarity, but as we examined the history of the work further
- [More on Chen Yi, Composer of the Month!](https://wophil.org/chen-yi-cotm-2023/) - We've been celebrating Chen Yi as our Composer Of The Month! Elizabeth de Brito commented on the lack of events celebrating Chen Yi’s 70th birthday. This is true – but there are many events featuring Chen Yi and her music – just none that name and celebrate the auspicious occasion of her turning 70. But
- [Hidden Herstory – Dmitri Shostakovich and his female contemporaries](https://wophil.org/hidden-herstory-shostakovich/) - By Elizabeth de Brito Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) left a deep impression on 20th century classical music, however many great women contributed to the Russian and international music scene. Here we shine a light on his female contemporaries, from fellow students at Leningrad Conservatory, friends from Moscow Conservatory, peers during his career and finally the next
- [Composer of the Month – Chen Yi](https://wophil.org/composer-of-the-month-chen-yi/) - By Elizabeth de Brito One of the greatest living Chinese composers, this month I’m thrilled to illuminate the brilliant work of Chen Yi. With a list of commissions from practically every major classical ensemble and a resumé of performances that circumvent the globe, Chen Yi is one of our most important musical voices. In this,
- [Year-End Reflections from Elizabeth de Brito](https://wophil.org/year-end-elizabeth-de-brito/) - By Elizabeth de Brito Phew, what a year it’s been! This time last year COVID still hung firmly over our festivities but this year the party is back on! I think it’s fair to say we’ve all enjoyed returning to some semblance of normality, with live music gradually returning for good across the world and
- [Elizabeth Recommends: Holiday Music for Orchestra](https://wophil.org/elizabeth-recommends-holiday-music/) - by Elizabeth de Brito Happy Holidays, everybody! As the festive season is firmly underway, I’ve curated a selection of the finest holiday orchestral and choral music written by women. Whilst the gazillionth performance of Handel’s Messiah may be a longstanding tradition in many places, this week I offer some amazing alternative holiday and Christmas classics
- [Hidden Herstory – Brahms and his female contemporaries](https://wophil.org/hidden-herstory-brahms-female-contemporaries/) - by Elizabeth de Brito Two Germans, a Brit and a Swede walk into a Leipzig salon – sounds like the beginning of a bad joke doesn’t it? In this month’s Hidden Herstory article we explore the work of four composers –Amanda Maier, Ethel Smyth, Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms, whose lives intersected in late 19th
- [COTM: Julia Perry](https://wophil.org/cotm-julia-perry/) - Composer of the Week – Julia Perry by Elizabeth de Brito Conductor, violinist, pianist, singer, teacher, composer – this multi-talented woman ushered in a new era of neoclassicism with her wonderful compositions. As the revised edition of her Violin Concerto receives its world premiere in New York later this week, I explore Julia Perry’s life
- [New York Youth Symphony Album nominated for Grammy!](https://wophil.org/nyys-grammy/) - GREAT NEWS! A groundbreaking project is receiving deserved recognition! The New York Youth Symphony turned the limitations of the pandemic -- musicians all in lockdown -- into an opportunity to record a new CD, which was released in spring of 2022. This was (as so much during the pandemic) unprecedented: 110 young musicians recording remotely.
- [Elizabeth Recommends: Piano Concertos](https://wophil.org/elizabeth-recommends-piano-concertos/) - by Elizabeth de Brito This month on Elizabeth Recommends, discover 200 years of phenomenal piano concertos. From 19th century Germany to 21st century Mexico, enjoy my selection of the finest piano concertos you need to hear. As always I’ve included links to recordings, Youtube videos and scores so you can listen and program these great,
- [Dr. Marcia J. Citron on <em>The Wreckers</em> at Houston Grand Opera](https://wophil.org/marcia-j-citron-wreckers-houston/) - We are deeply honored to have Dr. Marcia J. Citron as a guest blogger. Dr. Citron is Professor Emerita at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University. The author of When Opera Meets Film (Cambridge UP, 2010) and Opera on Screen (Yale UP, 2000), her groundbreaking book Gender and the Musical Canon (1993, reprint 2000)
- [More good news! A Premiere by Marion Bauer!](https://wophil.org/more-good-news-marion-bauer/) - More good news! .... And some silliness! Marion Bauer's Symphony n. 1, one of the last works she composed, will receive its long delayed premiere on Nov. 15 by the Seattle Collaborative Orchestra. Bauer's Symphony composed in 1951, was scheduled to be conducted by Howard Hanson at the Symposium of American Orchestral Music at the
- [Composer of the Month: Maria Theresia von Paradis (1759-1824)](https://wophil.org/composer-of-the-month-maria-theresia-von-paradis-1759-1824/) - By Elizabeth de Brito Maria Theresia von Paradis (The Blind Enchantress, as she was sometimes known) captivated Europe with her prodigious music talents. She concertized widely, composed wonderful music, and became a powerful inspiration, both in classical music and through her work educating the blind. Education Von Paradis’s father worked as court secretary for her
- [Some (GOOD) News for Today!](https://wophil.org/some-good-news-for-today/) - Some GOOD News for your Wednesday! We are so excited that Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers is receiving an important production at the Houston Grand Opera, and that critics and audiences are THRILLED! The Houston Press calls the 1906 work “an absolute marvel” and demands “Where has she been and what has taken so long?” Dr.
- [<em>The Wreckers</em> Storms Houston!](https://wophil.org/the-wreckers-storms-houston/) - by Amy Zigler, PhD, Associate Professor of Music, Salem College 116 years after its premiere, Dame Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers received its first-ever staging by a major American opera house. In keeping with its renewed focus on the ‘grand’ in Houston Grand Opera, the HGO production on Friday October 28, 2022 was a powerful tour-de-force,
- [Elizabeth Recommends: Symphonic Poems](https://wophil.org/elizabeth-recommends-symphonic-poems/) - By Elizabeth de Brito This month on Elizabeth Recommends I am focusing on Tone Poems, introducing seven of the most essential symphonic poems from the past two centuries and around the world. Each one depicts an extraordinary story, some inspired by specific poetry, some taking inspiration from folklore and others creating their own narrative. These
- [On the rediscovery of Helen Hagan](https://wophil.org/on-the-rediscovery-of-helen-hagan/) - We are thrilled by this excellent article in the Washington Post about tonights revival (premiere of the new orchestration) of Helen Hagan's Piano Concerto. The concert will livestream here on the website of the Yale School of Music https://music.yale.edu/live (Starts at 7:30 PM Eastern time, the Hagan is the second piece on the program)
- [Hidden Herstory: An 18th-Century Royal Musical Dynasty](https://wophil.org/hidden-herstory-an-18th-century-royal-musical-dynasty/) - By Elizabeth De Brito Have you heard of this amazing classical-era royal musical dynasty from Prussia? Two generations of remarkable royals who, through their leadership and musical talent, shaped much of 18th-century German artistic culture and strongly influenced the development of classical music, composers themselves and also inspiring some of the finest works of the
- [Some news for your Friday!  Oct. 14, 2022](https://wophil.org/some-news-friday-oct-14-2022/) - Applications for our Grant Program are open, and we have extended the deadline to Nov. 15! We realize that that our revised program is unconventional, proposing channels of communication between your artistic planners and the experts on our Board. But we believe the process of programming needs to be renovated to support the systemic change
- [Honoring Diversity Work by two Women](https://wophil.org/honoring-diversity-work-women/) - We are saddened to learn of the passing of Dr. Barbara Garvey Jackson (1929-2022, obituary here), who worked for decades to advocate for music by women composers. She was a Professor at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, and has generations of students who attest to her dedication. She was part of the pioneering second
- [Smyth's Mass in Australia, Oct. 9!](https://wophil.org/smyths-mass-in-australia-oct-9/) - We rarely blog on the weekends, but we wanted to make sure we mentioned the performance tomorrow (Sunday, Oct. 9) in Australia of Ethel Smyth’s Mass -- it may in fact be the first performance of that monumental work in Australia, and it is very a rare all-Smyth concert (including overtures from her opera The Wreckers),
- [Composer of the Month: Chiquinha Gonzaga](https://wophil.org/cotm-chiquinha-gonzaga/) - Editor's Note: While our focus at WPA is on women in classical music, we know the boundaries of the term "classical" have always been flexible and porous, from the earliest music of the Western church appropriating popular melodies, to Lizzo playing a flute that belonged to the fourth US President. Our featured composer excelled in
- [Elizabeth recommends: Essential Orchestral Music by Women](https://wophil.org/elizabeth-recommends-essential-orchestral-music-by-women/) - By Elizabeth de Brito In this brand-new series, we will be introducing some of the essential orchestral music by women. We offer starting points for those unfamiliar with the vast body of work by women. This is not an exhaustive list, there are many more brilliant pieces to recommend, however these represent a solid base on
- [2022-23 Repertoire Report: Are the top-level US Orchestras committed to Diversity?](https://wophil.org/2022-23-repertoire-report/) - While several other organizations now produce reports on the programming by orchestras in regard to diversity of composers, WPA started with our annual report in 2008, and we have consistently focused on the same set, the top level of U.S. orchestras. This provides detailed information on their change (or lack thereof) by these ensembles over
- [2021-2022 Season: By the Numbers](https://wophil.org/2021-2022-season-by-the-numbers/) - It's our Annual Repertoire Report! As vaccination rates rise and U.S. CDC guidelines change, those of us in the classical music community are finding ourselves cautiously optimistic for the coming season of performances. Though we have certainly learned the lesson of unpredictability, we have also seen ensembles be able to react and adapt in meaningful and
- [Our Performance Grants are on hold :-(](https://wophil.org/our-performance-grants-are-offered-each-year/) - 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.
- [Hidden Herstory – Saint-Saëns and his female contemporaries](https://wophil.org/hidden-herstory-saint-saens-and-his-female-contemporaries/) - By Elizabeth de Brito Camille Saint-Saëns may enjoy a revered status amongst French classical composers, partly due to his various popular works and for his work in founding the Société Nationale de Musique (SNM). But are you familiar with the numerous important women that worked in his circle? Saint-Saëns sustained close friendships with several important female
- [Grant Program Revised and Accepting Applications!](https://wophil.org/grant-program-2022/) - The core mission of Women's Philharmonic Advocacy has always been to advocate for, support, and celebrate the works of women composers being performed and recorded in contemporary orchestras. It is not enough to know of these composers or their music - they deserve to be heard. Our Performance Grants were first developed to support individual
- [Composer of the Month: Young-ja Lee (1931- )](https://wophil.org/cotm-young-ja-lee-1931/) - By Elizabeth de Brito Young-ja Lee’s impact upon Korean classical music is enormous, with a life full of firsts: the first female composer of Western classical music in Korea; the first female composer to study abroad; one of the first (if not the first) female composition professors in the country and the co-founder of the
- [Happy Birthday, Amy Beach!](https://wophil.org/happy-birthday-amy-beach-4/) - She was born Amy Marcy Cheney on this day in Henniker, NH. In celebration we are giving away copies of our critical edition of Mvt. II -- Alla siciliana -- from her Symphony op. 32, "Gaelic" -- please fill out this form to receive your PDF copy! Supplies are limited; this offer is valid through Sept.
- [Alma Mahler and #MeToo (oh, and Happy Birthday, Alma!)](https://wophil.org/alma-mahler-and-metoo/) - By Liane Curtis To honor Alma Mahler on her birthday (she was born Alma Maria Schindler on 31 August 1879 in Vienna), I thought I would highlight some of her music, but also note the issue that 17 songs are all that survive of her compositional output, and consider why that is. Then I discovered
- [Hidden Herstory – Benjamin Britten and his Female Contemporaries](https://wophil.org/hidden-herstory-benjamin-britten-and-his-female-contemporaries/) - By Elizabeth de Brito Benjamin Britten may be a great composer, widely considered the fourth ‘B’ after Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. But are you aware of these four extraordinary British composers with whom he associated? Dame Elizabeth Maconchy, Grace Williams, Imogen Holst CBE and Elisabeth Lutyens CBE, were all born within fourteen months of one
- [Link-Round-up August 8, 2022](https://wophil.org/link-round-up-august-8-2022/) - Hope your week is off to a great start! The continuing push for women conductors, and Marin Alsop’s role in supporting more recognition, training and opportunities for women in the field is noted in this review of the “Breaking Barriers” Festival at Chicago’s Ravinia. And also this one. Pictured, Laura Jackson, Jeri Lynne Johnson, and
- [Composer of the Month: Gaziza Zhubanova](https://wophil.org/composer-of-the-month-gaziza-zhubanova/) - Note from Liane Curtis -- as professional musicologist, I've been researching women composers for over 30 years. So every time I learn about a composer I haven't heard of, I am reminded that we still have so much we need to do! Our culture tended to marginalize women for so many decades and centuries (of
- [Hidden Herstory: Mozart and his female contemporaries](https://wophil.org/hidden-herstory-mozart-and/) - The music of the traditional male canon is well documented; however the roles of the female composers who had roles in the musical lives of those men has been marginalized -- this is the historic process of patriarchy. For our new Hidden Herstory series we are taking in turn a famous male composer, and giving
- [Link Round-Up: July 25, 2022](https://wophil.org/link-round-up-july-25-2022/) - Africlassical blog brings us lots of good news! We always love hearing what Jeri Lynne Johnson and Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra are up to (pictured, Johnson at left leading a workshop) – fantastic news that they have been awarded a Mellon Foundation Grant for their “Kaleidoscope Initiative” to support the next generation of rising young
- [Link Round-Up: July 19, 2022](https://wophil.org/link-round-up-july-19-2022/) - The music of Dame Ethel Smyth continues to draw more performances and recognition. Liane Curtis attended the moving performance of Smyth’s opera “The Wreckers” at the renowned Glyndebourne Festival, and offered this review. Glyndebourne’s video of the production will be available in August. And, a “semi-staged” version will be performed as part of The Proms
- [Link Roundup: July 12, 2022](https://wophil.org/link-roundup-july-12-2022/) - We have news about women conductors this week!! At the Chicago Symphony, Apprentice Conductor Lina González-Granados stepped in for Ricardo Muti with a minute’s notice – (really!) exciting moments in the life of a young conductor, and she has earned acclaim all around! (reports HERE and HERE in the Chicago press) An intrepid musician, she
- [NEW! Composer of the Month: Cécile Chaminade](https://wophil.org/composer-of-the-month-feature/) - We are thrilled to launch a new Composer of the Month feature, authored by Elizabeth de Brito, a journalist and cultural activist for diversity in classical music as well as the producer of The Daffodil Perspective podcast/radio show. If you follow much social media about expanding the canon in music, you have probably encountered Elizabeth
- [How My Essay on Fullnaming Composers Melted the Internet (and other thoughts)](https://wophil.org/how-my-essay-on-fullnaming-composers/) - Our featured guest author Chris White teaches music theory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and writes for both the popular and academic press. We asked him to comment on the reaction to his important article of two years ago, and are thrilled to have this update from him. Here’s a few phrases that have
- [Michiru Oshima: Eastern Musical Icon](https://wophil.org/michiru-oshima-eastern-musical-icon/) - We are very excited to conclude Women's History Month with a post by Featured Guest Blogger Elizabeth de Brito. Ms. de Brito is the Founder and Creator of The Daffodil Perspective, a classical music podcast where every show is gender balanced and racially equitable, available on the website here, or through Mixcloud. Michiru Oshima: Eastern
- [U.S. Women Lose a Basic Right](https://wophil.org/u-s-women-lose-a-basic-right/) - By Liane Curtis We were hoping to resume our weekly link round-up and continue to bring you an assortment of news about women (especially composers) in the world of classical music. But on Friday, June 24, U.S. women were stripped of an important right, the right to bodily autonomy, the right to control and plan
- [Celebrating Juneteenth!](https://wophil.org/celebrating-juneteenth/) - We return refreshed from our blog hiatus to celebrate Juneteenth! Thank you so much to all our fans who missed us! A. Kori Hill’s recent article, “Florence Price, NANM, & Self-Determination: Making a way for Black classical artists in Jim Crow America” tells us so much about the importance of community to Price and others.
- [Big events this weekend!](https://wophil.org/big-events-this-weekend/) - We wanted to highlight a few of the many exciting events that are taking place this weekend! Pamela Madsen's massive ORATORIO FOR THE EARTH is being premiered in the resonant Meng Concert Hall at Cal State Fullerton, 3 pm (Pacific time), today Sat. May 14th. Tenor AJ Rodriguez' has dedicated his Master's recital as a
- [Celebrating Florence Price](https://wophil.org/remembering-florence-price/) - The work to level the playing field for women composers means more than encouraging the inclusion of compositions by women on concert programs. Advocating for women can mean helping the wider public to become familiar even with the names of significant figures. Most people are familiar with the names of Bach, Beethoven, or at least one of the
- [A Canadian opera performed and problematized in new film](https://wophil.org/a-canadian-opera-performed-and-problematized-in-new-film/) - A new film, The Lake / nx̌aʔx̌aʔitkʷ , is being screened in Vancouver, BC on May 5 and 12, as part of the DOXA Film Festival. The film may also be viewed online, but only in Canada! (Those who view online have 11 days to start watching once the material is available). According to Director
- [Monday Link Round-Up: May 2, 2022](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-may-2-2022/) - The rediscovery and exploration of important music by Margaret Bonds is continuing! Wed. May 4, 10:30 AM EDT: Online presentation and discussion: “Margaret Bonds and Black Radicalism” with Dr. Malcolm J. Merriweather, Dr. Rollo A. Dilworth and Dr. Tammy L. Kernodle. This event was filmed to complement the recent performance by the Dessoff Choirs (of
- [Featured Guest Blogger: Anna Edwards](https://wophil.org/guest-blogger-anna-edwards/) - We are thrilled to share our newest installment in our Featured Guest Blogger series. Dr. Anna Edwards is a conductor and educator in the Seattle area. Two of her ensembles, the Seattle Collaborative Orchestra and the Saratoga Orchestra of Whidbey Island, have been recipients of WPA Performance grants. In addition, she is the music director
- [Monday Link Roundup: April 18, 2022](https://wophil.org/monday-link-roundup-april-18-2022/) - A bit of news to start your week! Bethan Langford as Maria Theresia von Paradis in The Paradis Files. Photograph: Patrick Baldwin We are intrigued by the new opera that explores the life of the blind composer and pianist, Maria Theresia von Paradis (1759-1824). “The Paradis Files” is receiving positive reviews, and definitively gives much
- [Monday Link Roundup: April 11, 2022](https://wophil.org/monday-link-roundup-april-11-2022/) - Exciting News to start your week!!: Opera American has announced the 2022 winners of their Discovery grants. Eight women composers will receive grants to support the development of new opera and music-theater works: Layale Chaker, Ashi Day, Susan Kander, Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti, Pamela Madsen, Rachel J. Peters, Amber Vistein, and Alyssa Weinberg. WE can’t
- [Weekly Link Round-Up March 25,](https://wophil.org/weekly-link-round-up-march-25/) - Sorry to be so late with our weekly update! We do want to make sure everyone knows that the Women Composers Festival of Hartford is completely available online (until April 7), and for no fee (donations are encouraged, of course!) The 2022 Ensemble-in-residence Hartford Independent Chamber Orchestra (HICO) features the world premiere of Music Box
- [Monday Link Roundup: March 14, 2022](https://wophil.org/monday-link-roundup-march-14-2022/) - We hope you had an exciting International Women's Day! March 8 revealed this statue of Dame Ethel Smyth, in the town of Woking, UK, where the great composer lived the last decades of her life. Sculptor Christine Charlesworth presents Smyth "wearing her customary tweed skirt, enthusiastically conducting … her face full of concentration ... In
- [Happy International Women's Day!  And Link Round-Up!](https://wophil.org/happy-international-womens-day-and-link-round-up/) - Happy Women’s History Month and (tomorrow) International Women’s Day! We are thrilled to unveil our newly updated and expanded database “500 Operas by Women”!! Last week we scolded the Met Opera for their continued denial of women’s creativity as composers. So here is our reply: HUNDREDS of operas from every era and a wide span
- [Link Round-Up! March 1, 2022 -- Happy Women's History Month!](https://wophil.org/link-round-up-march-1-2022-happy-womens-history-month/) - Instead of our weekly news round-ups, we will be offering more frequent updates and commentary throughout this exciting and important month! Just in time for women’s History Month, the Met Opera made their annual statement that women cannot and do not compose opera. “In our long history, there have been two exceptions,” said the imaginary
- [Monday Link Roundup: February 21, 2022](https://wophil.org/link-roundup-feb-21-2022/) - It’s a BIG week in Black History Month! We knew Julia Perry wrote a lot of music, of which only a small but astounding handful of works are ever heard. But a dramatic turn-around is happening – perhaps the result of BLM, and the re-assessment of everything prompted by the downtime of the pandemic (and
- [Monday Link Roundup: February 14, 2022](https://wophil.org/monday-link-roundup-february-14-2022/) - Here’s some news for this week! Gabriella Smith’s vast and remarkable new work “One” was premiered by the Santa Rosa Symphony on Jan. 8. We are happy that it is available via this stream, (but only until until February 16), and we are proud to have supported this work with one of our 2019 Performance
- [Monday Link Round Up: February 7, 2022](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-february-7-2022/) - Florence Price received national attention this week when television personality Kelly Clarkson included a feature about the composer and her work on Clarkson's show. The feature includes a performance of Price's Fantasy n. 2 in F-sharp minor, by two of the students who helped write a new children's book about her life. Watch here, or
- [Monday Link Round Up: January 31, 2022](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-january-31-2022/) - The new documentary film about Marin Alsop, CONDUCTOR, directed by Bernadette Wegenstein, is earning well-deserved praise and attention. This includes an interview with Alsop on NPR, and a review in the New York Times. But (so far) our favorite response is from The Alliance of Women Film Journalists, Inc. "Alsop has fought tooth and
- [Link Round Up: January 25, 2022](https://wophil.org/link-round-up-january-25-2022/) - Here's some news for this week! Juilliard Focus Festival 2022, The Making of an American Music, 1899-1948 is taking place this week with much of it streaming. The January 28 concluding orchestral concert will be conducted by Mei Ann Chen, and features Melissa White as soloist in Florence Price's Violin Concerto n. 1! . Musicologist
- [Ruth Crawford Seeger's Andante for Strings -- and a problematic publisher](https://wophil.org/ruth-crawford-andante/) - Welcome to our Guest-blogger, Ian Sewell, a PhD Student in Music Theory at Columbia University. We thank him for sharing his experience about one of the 20th-century's best- known works -- and the difficulty in making an accurate and scholarly edition of that work available. Scholars of Ruth Crawford’s music are all too familiar with
- [Monday Link Round Up: January 17, 2022](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-january-17-2022/) - News and music to start your week! Happy Martin Luther King Day! To commemorate their 10th anniversary, OperaCréole has planned "A celebration of Black Women in classical music and civil rights, from Ida B. Wells to Kamala Harris." Unfortunately the concert date is "TBD" due to Covid, but it is an inspiration to read about
- [Monday Link Round Up: January 10, 2022](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-january-10-2022/) - News and music to start your week! Composer Dr. Sharon Willis, pictured, has collaborated with author Margaret L. Thomas to create music to accompany a children's book. The book, titled Suazu and Nomeka's Heir is now also a musical with 16 songs, which they hope to bring to a theatre in the near future. Read
- [Monday Link Roundup: January 3, 2022](https://wophil.org/monday-link-roundup-january-3-2022/) - News and music to start off your YEAR! We are so excited for the upcoming premiere of Gabriella Smith's first symphony!. Smith, pictured above, was commissioned by the Santa Rosa and Eugene Symphonies for the work, titled One, and which will receive its world premiere on January 8. Learn more, and read the program notes,
- [Monday Link Round Up: December 20, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-december-20-2021/) - News and music to start your week! The New York Times recapped the rather challenging year in classical music - including awarding Kaija Saariaho (pictured) The Composer of the Year. Other highlights include building a more diverse repertoire, firsts at the Met, and more. Don't miss an excellent piece by musicologist Dr. Douglas Shadle about
- [Monday Link Round Up: December 13, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-december-13-2021/) - News and music to start your week! Composer Nomi Abadi, pictured above, founded the Female Composer Safety League last year after recognizing that female composers have been left out of the #MeToo movement. Read her conversation with Rebecca Keegan in the Hollywood Reporter. We mentioned last week that Olga Neuwirth's opera, Orlando, won the Grawemeyer
- [Monday Link Round Up: December 6, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-december-6-2021/) - The Philadelphia Orchestra, led by Yannick Nézet Séguin, performs Florence Price's Symphony No. 3 in a Digital Stage performance on Wednesday, December 8. The concert is then available for on-demand access until Dec. 15. Also on the program is Amanda Harberg's Piccolo Concerto, with Erica Peel, soloist. Florence Price is also in the news as a
- [Monday Link Round Up: November 29, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-november-29-2021/) - News and music to start your week! NPR featured the life and music of Sofia Gubaidulina, pictured above, on All Things Considered. Gubaidulina just turned 90, and there is a new album revisiting some of her greatest works. Read more at NPR's website, or listen in below. The Wichita Eagle speaks with conductor Laura Jackson,
- [Monday Link Round Up: November 22, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-november-22-2021/) - Composer Stephanie Ann Boyd honored feminist activist Betty Friedan (pictured) in a new composition commissioned and premiered by the Peoria Symphony Orchestra. Born in Peoria 100 years ago. The work featured lyrics drawn from Friedan's influential work, The Feminine Mystique. The rest of the concert was entirely music by Boyd, including her 2018 work "Sheltering
- [Monday Link Round Up: November 15, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-november-15-2021/) - News and music to start your week! Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's birthday was honored with a Google Doodle! November 14 marked the 216th birthday of the composer, pictured above. In case you missed it, you can see the animated doodle here. NPR interviewed Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason - sibling superstars of the classical music world. The
- [Monday Link Round Up: November 8, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-november-8-2021/) - News and music to start your week! The New York Times offers a profile for the French composer and organist Jeanne Demessieux, pictured above. Considered one of the greatest organist of the 20th century, the article explores her life and work, and includes examples of her performance as well as others playing her compositions. Louise
- [Monday Link Round Up: November 1, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-november-1-2021/) - News and music to start your week! Read about the work of Boston based composer Mason Bynes, pictured above, who is using her work to give voice to others. From The Scope: As a Black, female composer, Bynes examines the idea of composing and creating music with a calculated ear and swift mind, always thinking
- [Monday Link Round Up: October 25, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-october-25-2021/) - News and music to start the week! The New York Times spoke to conductor Eun Sun Kim, pictured above, the first woman to serve as music director for one of America's largest opera companies, the San Francisco Opera. Even CNN is recognizing the influx of performances by Black composers in today's orchestras. The question remains,
- [Monday Link Round Up: October 18, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-october-18-2021/) - News and music to start your week! Congratulations to Nathalie Stutzmann, pictured above, who has been named the new conductor of the Atlanta Symphony! Stutzmann will be the only woman conducting one of America's top orchestras when she takes the podium next year. Marin Alsop, who previously led The Baltimore Symphony stepped down at the
- [Monday Link Round Up: October 11, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-october-11-2021/) - News and music to start your week! The New York Times ran a feature on the life and music of Louise Farrenc, pictured above. The French composer broke boundaries on many fronts, and her symphonies are fantastic works long overdue of performances and recognition. Read the story here, which includes a Spotify playlist of
- [Monday Link Round Up: October 4, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-october-4-2021/) - News and music to start your week: We are thrilled at the release of new recordings of works by Florence Price! Recorded by The Philadelphia Orchestra and with the help and talent of pianist and Price advocate Michelle Cann (pictured above). The Philadelphia Orchestra intends to release recordings of all four of her symphonies. Learn
- [Monday Link Round Up: September 27, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-september-27-2021/) - News and music to start your week! Congratulations go to Terrance Blanchard (pictured above), the first Black composer to have a work performed at the Metropolitan Opera. His work, Fire Shut Up In My Bones, opens tonight! The New York Times talks to Blanchard about this opportunity and his career that led him to this point
- [Monday Link Round Up: September 20, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-september-20-2021/) - News and music to start your week! Congratulations to Mary Watkins, recipient of Opera America's Opera Grants for Female Composers! Learn more about her opera Dark River: The Fannie Lou Hammer Story as well as her Emmet Till: The Opera, scheduled for premiere in March 2022. Women Composers Festival of Hartford is back with its latest
- [Monday Link Round Up: September 13, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-september-13-2021/) - News and music to start your week! The New York Times has an extensive feature of composer, violinist and teacher Jessie Montgomery, pictured above. Montgomery is one of the leading contemporary composers of 2021, with hundreds of performances in large and small ensembles, a residence at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and a commission calendar booked
- [Monday Link Round Up: September 6, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-september-6-2021/) - Music and news to start your week! Violinist Jennifer Koh, pictured above, turned the pandemic - and the silencing of the performing arts industry - into an opportunity to collaborate and create in a new way. She contacted composers and commissioned 40 new works for solo violin. The composers included Tania León, Missy Mazzoli, Angélica
- [Monday Link Round Up: August 30, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-august-30-2021/) - New and music to start your week! A new set of albums have been released, remastering the recordings of contralto Marian Anderson, pictured above. This groundbreaking performer had a tremendous talent, and overcame daunting obstacles in order to perform in history-making events. NPR shares photos, history, and a sneak peek of the album, released August
- [Monday Link Round Up: August 23, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-august-23-2021/) - News and music to start your week! We are saddened at the passing of conductor Michael Morgan, pictured above, who served at the Oakland Symphony since 1991. The Oakland Symphony became a model for other ensembles who sought to engage not only their audience but wider communities, to have music that is representative of the
- [Featured Guest Blogger: Could an Academic Conference pass the Bechdel Test?](https://wophil.org/women-composers-in-musicology/) - 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
- [Link Round-Up: August 16, 2021](https://wophil.org/link-round-up-august-16-2021/) - Start your week with our look at the news! The Bard Music Festival transfixed us with its many amazing concerts, focusing on Nadia Boulanger and Her World. And while the live concerts are over, the preconcert lectures remain available, as is this panel discussion (featuring Festival Scholar-in-Residence Dr. Jeanice Brooks.) And we hope some of
- [Monday Link Round Up: August 9, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-august-9-2021/) - News and music to start your week! Women Composers Festival of Hartford has announced Hanna Kim, pictured above, as their 2022 composer-in-residence! They have also put out their annual calls for Participation - including performances, scores, and scholarly presentations. Musicologist, educator, and WPA Board Member Tammy L. Kernodle will be giving a presentation on the
- [Monday Link Round Up: August 2, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-august-2-2021/) - News and music to start your week! The San Diego Union-Tribune profiles the life and work of composer Gabriela Lena Frank, pictured above. The article discusses her identities as a disabled woman of color (being of Peruvian, Chinese, and Lithuanian heritage). The composer's work is being presented at La Jolla Music Society's SummerFest 2021 Composer
- [Monday Link Round Up: July 26, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-july-26-2021/) - News and music to start your week! In the latest installment of the Women Composers Festival of Hartford HerStory series Kathryn Woodard speaks to composer and performer Yshani Perinpanayagam (pictured above). Learn more at the WCFH website or watch the interview below: The New York Times reported on the history being made at The Bayreuth
- [News Round-Up, July 6, 2021](https://wophil.org/news-round-up-july-6-2021/) - Here is our Selection of News Links! Chi-Chi Nwanoku (OBE), bassist and founder of Chineke! Orchestra, has worked to recover the role of George Bridgetower, a violinist of African descent, who inspired and premiered Beethoven's Sonata op. 47. Nwanoku's work has led the publisher Peters to reprint the Sonata naming it after Bridgetower, rather than
- [Monday Link Round Up: July 19, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-july-19-2021/) - News and music to start your week! Learn more about composer, conductor, and pianist Avril Coleridge-Taylor, pictured above, daughter of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Classical FM introduces readers to the composer, who is too often forgotten, and shares some of her music. The New York Times profiles Pauline Viardot - composer and opera star who just celebrated
- [2020-2021 Season: By the Numbers](https://wophil.org/202021-by-the-numbers/) - By Sarah Baer Even amid all of the chaos and uncertainty - and cancelled seasons - due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ensembles are planning for the future. All major ensembles have released their 2020-2021 season announcements, so we have once again read through, made lists, designed charts, and crunched the numbers. With the continued attention
- [Monday Link Round Up: July 12, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-july-12-2021/) - News and music to start your week! Composer Ellen Reid, pictured above, is profiled in the San Francisco Classical Voice. Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for music, Reid is also a sound artist and spoke with SFCV about her work, her background, and collaboration with Missy Mazzoli in creating the Luna Composition Lab. Kaija
- [Monday Link Round Up: June 28, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-june-28-2021/) - News and music to start your week! Congratulations go to conductor Oksana Lyniv, pictured above, who will be the first woman to lead the orchestra at the Bayreuth festival. Learn more about her career and her experiences being the only woman studying conducting at the college in Lviv. DW.com has the interview. Opera Steamboat has
- [Monday Link Round Up: June 21, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-june-21-2021/) - News and music to start your week! The Chicago Tribune spoke with Missy Mazzoli, pictured above, who is wrapping up her third year as Composer In Residence at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She speaks with the Chicago Tribune about what it was like to be a composer in residence during a pandemic, and her work
- [Monday Link Round Up: June 14, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-june-14-2021/) - News and music to start your week! Tremendous congratulations go to Tania León who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music for her work entitled Stride. Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic as part of their 19th Amendment Anniversary commissioning project, Stride was premiered at Lincoln Center just prior to the shutdown due to Covid 19. Read
- [Tanglewood -- and Beethoven Idolatry -- is Back For 2021](https://wophil.org/tanglewood-and-beethoven-idolatry-is-back-for-2021/) - By Sarah Baer (with some input by Liane Curtis) The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer home is getting ready to welcome guests again in what is perhaps an ideal venue for events in these strange times. The traditions of lawn chairs and picnics while enjoying some of the highest-quality performances available in the United States will
- [Monday Link Round Up: June 7, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-june-7-2021/) - News and music to start your week! Composers Now shared a feature on the life and work of Mary D. Watkins in their IMPACT series. Watch the episode below: The Boulanger Initiative had an exciting weekend at Strathmore with their WoCo Fest 2021! Read about the concerts that took place featuring the works by, and
- [BBC Proms 2021: By the Numbers](https://wophil.org/bbc-proms-2021/) - In a year unlike any other for classical music programming, it is simply a relief to know that live music is once again being scheduled, and that audiences are once again meeting in person. Those of us that crave concert halls and the anticipation of a downbeat will accept just about anything as long as
- [Monday Link Round Up: May 31, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-may-31-2021/) - News and music to start your week! Marin Alsop, pictured above, is preparing to step down from her position at the Baltimore Symphony. She spoke to The Washington Post about her history with the orchestra, the glass ceilings that she broke along the way, and the work that still needs to be done towards equality
- [Monday Link Round Up: May 24, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-may-24-2021/) - News and music to start your week! Read about the beautiful collaboration that is occurring in the Burkina Faso capital, Ouagadougou. Japanese composer Keiko Fujiie and a Burkinabè griot (traditional story-teller and musician) Maboudou Sanou (pictured above) are working together to develop an opera based on a novel by Moyi Mborangon. The BBC has the
- [Monday Link Round Up: May 17, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-may-17-2021/) - News and music to start the week! Learn about Kathleen Riddick, a British conductor who has been unjustly forgotten. Riddick (pictured above) pioneered the way for future women to take the podium. The Isle of Wight County Press profiles the conductor, who lived from 1907 to 1973. NPR has the story of the International Sweethearts
- [Monday Link Round Up: May 10, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-may-10-2021/) - News and music to start your week! San Francisco Classical Voice shares the news of a new series at the Marsh featuring the art songs of Black composers. Soprano Candace Johnson, pictured above, will be performing works by Adolphus Hailstork on May 22. Find out how you can tune into the livestreamed event at TheMarsh.org.
- [Monday Link Round Up: May 3, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-may-3-2021/) - News and music to start your week! Congratulations go to composer Errollyn Wallen, pictured above, who was named the recipient of the 2020 ISM Distinguished Musician Award. From the website: "Established in 1976, the ISM Distinguished Musician Award recognises outstanding contributions to musical life in the UK. Errollyn joins such esteemed recipients as Dame Sarah
- [Monday Link Round Up: April 26, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-april-26-2021/) - News and music to start the week! Congratulations to composer Jessie Montgomery, pictured, who was just named the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's new composer in residence! Her three year term begins July 1. Read more at the Chicago Sun Times. The CSO Press release (PDF) is here. Also, these seven women have been appointed Guggenheim Fellows
- [A Great Composer responds to the pandemic.  Fanny Mendelssohn in 1831](https://wophil.org/fanny-mendelssohns-response-to-the-epidemic-of-1831/) - This blog post of May 17, 2020 was one of our most popular of last year, and as we passed the one-year anniversary of the shutdowns and quarantines in response to Covid-19, it is worthwhile to recall Fanny Mendelssohn's response to the frightening pandemic of 190 years ago. Thank you again to Dr. Regine Angela
- [Monday Link Round Up: April 19, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-april-19-2021/) - News and music to start your week! Congratulations to Sherri Chung, pictured above, the first Asian-American woman to compose the music for an hour-long network drama. Listen in to her scores on the new series, "Kung Fu" (a "reimagining of the 1970s classic") and read on at Variety. Catch the latest episode of Julia Adolphe's
- [Monday Link Round Up: April 12, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-april-12-2021/) - News and music to start your week! Read about the Sister Cities Girlchoir and their work with composer Erin Busch, pictured above, to educate and inspire. Busch, who is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania, is dedicated to the education of women composers, which is evidenced in part by her Young Women Composers
- [We Hold On To Women’s Music History By A Thin, Fraying Thread](https://wophil.org/we-hold-on-to-womens-music-history/) - 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 drawn from Mary's 2016 M.A. Thesis The Women's Philharmonic: Its History and Legacy I began to fully grasp
- [Monday Link Round Up - April 5, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-april-5-2021/) - Music and news to start your week! Frank Oteri speaks to composer Pamela Z, pictured above, about her beginnings as a singer songwriter and development into an experimental composer. Listen to the interview, and read along at NewMusicBox where you can also hear some of her music and learn about her process. She describes creating
- [Monday Link Round Up - March 29, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-march-29-2021/) - News and music to start your week! Arizona State University is in the news for their new Black Women Composers Project. Lorrie McAllister, associate university librarian of collections and analysis at ASU library says: The Black Women Composers Project is illustrative of our strategic initiative to prioritize the preservation and digitization of resources that elevate
- [Monday Link Round Up: March 22, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-march-22-2021/) - News and music to start your week! Congratulations continue to pour in for Ethel Smyth's first-ever Grammy, thanks to the recording by James Blachly and The Experiential Orchestra! This crowdfunded CD, which WPA was proud to help support, has been praised since its release, and this award further reinforces not only this work, but the
- [Monday Link Round Up March 15, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-march-15-2021/) - We start with some BIG NEWS! Dame Ethel Smyth's "The Prison" has become the first work by a historic woman composer to win a Grammy Award. Smyth: The Prison, with soloists soprano Sarah Brailey and bass-baritone Dashon Burton, and the Experiential Orchestra and Chorus directed by James Blachly, won in the Best Classical Solo Vocal
- [A Composer Joins the Zoom Call](https://wophil.org/a-composer-joins-the-zoom-call/) - Music educator Miriam Capellan returns (her previous blog is here) with a vivid account of special day in the life (pandemic version) of a primary level music teacher. The new work being rehearsed can be heard in performance Saturday March 13, 2021 (links below) Composer and poet Regina Harris Baiocchi meets with students Miriam Capellan:
- [Monday Link Round Up - March 8, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-march-8-2021/) - News and music to start your week! Happy International Women's Day! Check out this post for the ways we've found you can listen to works by women composers (as well as learn about them) throughout today! Great news from BBC Radio 3 which has announced funding to seven researchers to give recognition to classical composers
- [International Women's Day Events 2021](https://wophil.org/international-womens-day-events-2021/) - March 8 is International Women's Day - and one of the few days of the year that those of us who seek out music by women composers have an abundance of choice. Listen in to the different offerings that we have found: Renowned scholar and pianist Dr. Samantha Ege, pictured above, will present a lecture
- [Women's History Month 2021 Listening](https://wophil.org/womens-history-month-2021-listening/) - Throughout the month of March we will be posting a new work by a woman composer on Twitter every day. Find us @WomensPhil to follow along, or bookmark this page, which will be updated as we go! [table id=11 /]
- [Monday Link Round Up: March 1, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-march-1-2021/) - News and music to start your week - and happy Women's History Month! Join us throughout the month of March as we highlight works that deserve to be heard more often. Follow along on Twitter: @WomensPhil Learn about the rising composer Hannah Kendall (pictured above) and the U.S. Premiere of Kanashibari with the Seattle Symphony
- [Monday Link Round Up: February 22, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-february-22-2021/) - News and music to start your week! The Philadelphia Orchestra performed Florence Price's Piano Concerto this past week. It is no surprise to anyone familiar with Price's work that the piece was well received, and left audience members asking why it was the first time that they were hearing the piece. Read about the performance
- [Monday Link Round Up: February 15, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-february-15-2021/) - News and music to start your week! We are excited about the new podcast from composer Julia Adolphe, pictured above, discussing creativity and mental health. Read more about her personal connection between the two, and where you can listen in to Looseleaf Notebook at New Music Box. The New York Times' Anthony Tommasini has a
- [Monday Link Round Up: February 8, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-february-8-2021/) - News and music to start your week! I Care if You Listen posed five questions to Canadian composer Alexina Louie (pictured above) and Evie Mark, who is a throat singer. They talk about Louie's Take The Dog Sled - a Inuit-Western musical collaboration that by all accounts is equitable and equal. Links in the article
- [Monday Link Round Up: February 1, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-february-1-2021/) - News and music to start your week! On the first day of Black History Month (which should be every month) let's look at Colorado Public Radio's list of Contemporary Black Composers You Should Know. Included in the list are Valerie Coleman, Jessie Montgomery (pictured above), Quinn Mason (who has guest blogged for us!), Nkeiru Okoye,
- [Let's State Firmly "White Supremacy Has No Place Here"](https://wophil.org/white-supremacy-has-no-place-here/) - Musician and Educator Miriam Capellan published the letter below on her blog, Dear Clara. Given the ongoing importance of the issues it raises, we are reprinting it here. We offer a few comments following the letter. Ms. Capellan offers these comments to frame her remarks: This post was written following a Proud Boys demonstration in
- [Monday Link Round Up: January 25, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-january-25-2021/) - News and music to start your week! Celebrations are underway (to the extent possible given the pandemic) for the centennial birthday of pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams, pictured above. She is featured in a story on NPR by reporter Lara Pellegrinelli. Read the text or listen in to the six minute story here. Pellegrinelli
- [Trailblazing Women featured by Santa Rosa Symphony](https://wophil.org/trailblazing-women-santa-rosa-sym/) - -- by Liane Curtis The Santa Rosa Symphony (SRS) has seized upon the need to change their programming due to Covid19 as an opportunity to celebrate diversity and highlight some brilliant works by women. They have named Ellen Taaffe Zwilich as Artistic Partner and are featuring her works in all five upcoming concerts this spring.
- [Monday Link Round Up: January 18, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-january-18-2021/) - News and music to start your week! We in the United States are greatly anticipating Wednesday, January 20, which is inauguration day. Though Washington D.C. will be missing the parades and festivities that are typically associated with the event, we can look forward to a performance of Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man and Joan
- [Monday Link Round Up: January 11, 2021](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-january-11-2021/) - News and music to start your week! Opera Wire profiles composer Thea Musgrave, pictured above, who has led an extraordinary and prolific career. David Salazar's essay includes several examples of her works throughout her career. Happy Birthday to composer Libby Larsen who turned 70 on Christmas Eve! She speaks to the Minnesota Star Tribune about
- [Happy New Year! and Link Round Up: January 4, 2021](https://wophil.org/happy-new-year-january-4-2021/) - Happy New Year to ALL! We are proud to announce that our 2021 Women Composers' Calendar is available for purchase, to help you celebrate the work of women in the coming year. Featuring the birthdays and achievements of a wide range of composers, it is available for purchase here, from Lulu.com. Lulu.com offers international print-on-demand
- [Monday Link Round Up: December 28, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-december-28-2020/) - News and music to start your week! Happy Christmas to all who celebrate! Enjoy this lovely Christmas Prelude for Chamber Orchestra by Vítězslava Kaprálova, pictured above. It was composed in 1939 and broadcast as part of the Paris PTT Radio program "Noël à Prague," on Dec. 24, 1939, just a few months before the composer's
- [Monday Link Round Up: December 21, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-december-21-2020/) - News and music to start your week! The Orange County Women's Chorus, like so many ensembles this year, have found and exciting and innovative way to share their music this season. The Voice of OC has a story about how they collaborated to create a varied concert experience, including a new commission by Dale Trumbore,
- [Ballet set to music of Ethel Smyth (streams Dec. 19 & 20)!](https://wophil.org/ballet-set-to-music-of-ethel-smyth-streams-dec-19-20/) - We were excited to learn that Ballet Co. Laboratory's big holiday production is The Snow Queen, set to music by Dame Ethel Smyth. Artistic Director Zoé Emilie Henrot sat down with Liane Curtis (WPA President) to talk about how she came to use Smyth's music, including what she listens for in ballet music. https://youtu.be/GB7BWVffT9A Streaming
- [Monday Link Round Up: December 14, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-december-14-2020/) - News and music to start your week! Congratulations go to Nathalie Stutzmann, pictured above, who was just named principal guest conductor of The Philadelphia Orchestra. The three year contract will begin with the 2021-2022 season. The Philadelphia Inquirer has more. For those readers who celebrate the Advent season, be sure to explore the online Advent
- [Monday Link Round Up: December 7, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-december-7-2020/) - News and music to start your week! Leah Broad writes for The Guardian about the importance in remembering all histories in the retelling of music history. She particularly champions the life of and work of Dame Ethel Smyth, pictured above, throughout her article - but as just one example of the multitude of voices that
- [Support Our Work!](https://wophil.org/support-our-work/) - Women's Philharmonic Advocacy has launched our year-end fund-drive! Over the years we have worked to support orchestras in their efforts to program more works by women, and to bring these composers -- of all historic eras, and from a range of backgrounds -- into the arena of public understanding. Now we are asking all our
- [Monday Link Round Up: November 30, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-november-30-2020/) - News and music to start the week! NewMusicBox spoke to composer and flautist Valerie Coleman (pictured) about her work. She is one of the eight American composers participating in the New Music USA's Amplifying Voices program - commissioning new works by composers of color. Read the interview here. This past week on Lara Downes program
- [Monday Link Round Up: November 23, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-november-23-2020/) - News and music to start your week! Ellen Taylor writes for Voice about what she learned after a presentation about Black classical music by pianist and musicologist Dr. Samantha Ege, pictured above. Dr. Ege is a particular champion of the works of Florence Price, including a recording project featured in The Bristol Magazine. Classical FM
- [Monday Link Round Up: November 16, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-november-16-2020/) - News and music to start your week! Congratulations go to Grace Moore, pictured below, who had her work premiered by members of the New York Philharmonic as part of their Very Young Composers program. Moore, who was born in Brooklyn, said that her work was inspired in part by the Black Lives Matter movement. Read
- [Monday Link Round Up: November 9, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-november-9-2020/) - Some news and music to start your week! The Handel and Haydn Society of Boston featured a concert yesterday of works by women composers in honor of the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment. The Boston Music Intelligencer wrote about what the audience could expect, and introduced readers to the list of women composers -
- [Monday Link Round Up: November 2, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-november-2-2020/) - News and music to start your week! Trumpeter Theresa May, pictured above, has had a diverse career in music - performing in classical ensembles as well as big bands. She was interviewed at WSKU out of Northeast Ohio about her career, the challenges she has faced, and the continued stigma that surrounds women brass players.
- [Happy Halloween!](https://wophil.org/happy-halloween/) - It's the spookiest time of year - and even beyond the costumes and candy, Halloween has become a reason to indulge in horror movies. There are plenty of examples of classical music being used as film scores to some of the scariest films ever made (WQXR lists several here), but there is one composer whose
- [Monday Link Round Up: October 26, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-october-26-2020/) - News and music to start your week! The New York Times profiles Gabriela Lena Frank (pictured), composer and educator who works to encourage inclusion and representation in the field of classical music. She hosts an academy on her farm in California, that works with composers, including those whose background is not that of the traditional
- [Monday Link Round Up: October 19, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-october-19-2020/) - News and music to start your week! ICareIfYouLIsten poses five questions to Nia Imani, pictured above, soprano and founder of ComposeHer, “an initiative meant to advance and nurture women and girls in classical composition and musicianship.” The blog at WQXR highlights the new recordings that have been made - including works by Florence Price, Julius
- [Monday Link Round Up: October 12, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-october-12-2020/) - News and music to start your week! Congratulations go to Cécile McLorin Salvant, pictured above, the only musician named in the 2020 MacArthur Fellowships ("genius grants"). Salvant is a composer, pianist, and vocalist. Learn more about her work at NewMusicBox. Read about the work being done by British musicians to reform classical music programming to
- [Monday Link Round Up: October 5, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-october-5-2020/) - News and music to start the week! There is a new organization, La Maestra, based in Paris and set out to encourage and promote more women conductors. Their first competition, held in September, drew more than 200 applicants, and 12 chosen contestants (including Jiajing Lai, pictured above) to compete for prizes including cash, mentoring, and
- [Monday Link Round Up: September 28, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-september-28-2020/) - News and music to start your week! I Care If You Listen featured two women composers last week. First, Pulitzer Prize Winner Du Yun (pictured above) shared a list of listening suggestions - a great way to expand our weekly playlists. They also spoke with composer and singer Mari Esabel, whose vocal works use texts
- [Monday Link Round Up: September 21, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-september-21-2020/) - News and music to start your week! We are mourning the loss of Ruth Bader Ginsburg - one of the greatest legal minds and champions for equality in American history. Let us remember her life and work, and recommit to carry on in the fight for equality and democracy in her honor. We can recall
- [Monday Link Round Up: September 14, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-september-14-2020/) - News and music to start your week! Tune into NPR's Morning Edition for a conversation with Amanda Jones, pictured above, who just became the first African American woman to earn an Emmy nomination for original television score. She is a singer and songwriter as well as a score composer. Read on to find out where
- [Monday Link Roundup: September 7, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-roundup-september-7-2020/) - Happy Labor Day to everyone in the United States! We are reminded, on this day of rest, of the work that still needs to be done for racial equality. We missed this article in June, but it is just as relevant now. Conductor Jeri Lynne Johnson, pictured above, founder of the Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra
- [Monday Link Round Up: August 31, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-august-31-2020/) - News and music to start the week! Sorry we didn't post about this sooner! The Dream Unfinished Activist Orchestra presents a live community reading of Fannie Lou Hamer's 1964 speech, "Sick and Tired," today, Monday, Aug. 31 at 11:30 AM EST! Sign-up is required. Some amazing members of the music community will be participating (some
- [Celebrating Undine Smith Moore](https://wophil.org/celebrating-undine-smith-moore/) - This week we are celebrating the birthday of American composer Undine Smith Moore. She was born August 25, 1904 and died February 6 1989. Considered the "Dean of Black Women Composers" she was in the generation that followed the groundbreaking work of Florence Price. Trained as a classical pianist, she turned to composition. Her output
- [Monday Link Round Up: August 24, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-august-24-2020/) - News and music to start your week! The Philadelphia Orchestra joins in the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the passing of the 19th amendment in the US. In a special conversation taking place on August 26, First Associate Concertmaster Juliette Kang, Composer In Residence Gabriela Lena Frank, soprano Angel Blue (pictured above), and Jennifer
- [Monday Link Round Up: August 17, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-august-17-2020/) - News and music to start your week! A lot to celebrate! August 18th marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment, granting U.S. women the right to Vote! Our illustration is from the Music in the Women's Suffrage Movement article of the Library of Congress. Music events commemorating the anniversary include the
- [The Heart of A Woman: A Review](https://wophil.org/the-heart-of-a-woman-a-review/) - By Sarah Baer The recent publication of Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price marks a bittersweet celebration. This definitive biography of Price, long awaited, is an invaluable addition to the field of feminist musicology, and joins the (thankfully) growing list of biographies of neglected women composers. We are only
- [Monday Link Round Up: August 10, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-august-10-2020/) - News and music to start your week! We are saddened to hear about the death of Helen Jones Woods - a trombonist who performed with the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, an interracial all-female Big Band that toured widely during WWII. Jones, pictured above, was 96 and tragically died fighting COVID-19. Read more at NPR about
- [Monday Link Round Up: August 3, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-august-3-2020/) - News and music to start your week! Congratulations go to Rhiannon Giddens - a trained opera singer, virtuoso fiddler and banjo player, founding member of The Carolina Chocolate Drops, MacArthur Genius grant winner, and composer who is pictured above. Giddens was just announced to be the artistic director of Silkroad, the cross-cultural music organization founded
- [Monday Link Round Up: July 27, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-july-27-2020/) - News and music to start your week! Calling young women composers! Pamela Z, pictured above, will be presenting on her compositional process TODAY, July 27 at 5pm EST, in a free presentation on the Young Women Composers workshop series. Gabriela Lena Frank will be presenting on July 30! Register for the zoom call here, where
- [The Music of the Remarkable Mrs. Sirmen](https://wophil.org/the-music-of-mrs-sirmen/) - We apologise for taking so long to get back to Part II of our post about composer and violinist Maddalena Laura Lombardini Sirmen (1745-1818). Part I, about her life, is found here. Our guest author is the London-based musician Martin Ash, whose website is www.martinashmusic.com. When Maddalena Laura Lombardini Sirmen embarked on her career, the
- [Monday Link Round Up: July 20, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-july-20-2020/) - News and music to start your week! Nine Black musicians spoke to the New York Times about their experiences, and describe the steps they would like to see being made in transforming the field to being more inclusive. Hear from Monica Ellis, Thomas Wilkins, Jessie Montgomery, Rodrick Cox, Anthony McGill, Lawrence Brownlee, Terence Blanchard, Latonia
- [Monday Link Round Up: July 13, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-july-13-2020/) - News and music to start your week! We are saddened to hear about the passing of composer Marga Richter (1926-2020), pictured above. Sezquenza21 has an obituary with links to other remembrances, her website, and samples of her work. George Lewis highlighted more Black composers and their music in The New York Times. Included are Tania
- [Considering the 2020 BBC Proms](https://wophil.org/considering-the-2020-bbc-proms/) - By Sarah Baer This year marks the 125th anniversary of the BBC Proms, and in true British fashion, the organizers have kept calm and figured out a way to carry on even during a pandemic. Though the Proms will be very different than in years past - with performances of archival recordings over the history
- [Monday Link Round Up: July 6, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-july-6-2020/) - News and music to start your week! Even in the middle of a pandemic, the BBC Proms has found a way to keep calm and carry on! Plans are under way for a largely virtual season, and the potential for two weeks of live events in late August. Read more at BBC News, and keep
- [Monday Link Round Up: June 29, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-june-29-2020/) - News and music to start your week! One of the effects of the attention that is finally being paid to the systemic racism that is embedded in our culture is that new attention is being paid to voices that have been omitted from the canon. NPR brought the spotlight to William Dawson's Negro Folk Symphony. Dawson,
- [The Role of Activist Orchestras](https://wophil.org/the-role-of-activist-orchestras/) - By Sarah Baer With the world in turmoil, nothing is known about what the future will look like for classical music performances. The Coronavirus Pandemic ended seasons early for ensembles around the world, and some of the most well-known institutions - including the Met Opera and New York Philharmonic - have already announced that they
- [Monday Link Round Up: June 22, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-june-22-2020/) - News and music to start your week! TODAY we celebrate the publication of the long-awaited The Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price, by Dr. Rae Linda Brown, from the University of Illinois Press. (June 22 is listed by Amazon as the publication date, but hey, best to buy from
- [2019-2020 Season Follow Up](https://wophil.org/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
- [Monday Link Round Up: June 15, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-june-15-2020/) - News and music to start the week. In the continued protests, and continued attacks by police on peaceful protesters, we are heartened by the reactions from musicians, and music scholars, in working towards a more just society. One of the standouts from the past week was an amazing story coming from Boston. Tufts University Professor
- [Fanny Hensel at the Ballet](https://wophil.org/fanny-hensel-at-the-ballet/) - "Fanny for ballet!!" read the text message. I blinked and did a double-take at the accompanying photo. Indeed, selections of Fanny Hensel's "Das Jahr" -- The Year -- a cycle of piano pieces composed in 1841, were the music for a new ballet, "Her Notes," choreographed by Jessica Lang and being premiered by the
- [Monday Link Round Up: June 8, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-june-8-2020/) - News and music - and social justice - to start your week. We at Women's Philharmonic Advocacy stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter community in striving for justice. Today we will focus on some of the conversations that musicians have been having regarding the current climate and how to move forward. Anthony McGill,
- [Monday Link Round Up: June 1, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-june-1-2020/) - It's been an unbelievably difficult week for BIPOC (black, indigenous, and people of color) and allies. We at WPA stand with you in the fight for justice. Though not outwardly stated by NPR, I suspect there's little coincidence that they featured Lara Downes' Tiny Desk Concert this past week. Downes (pictured above), a pianist, scholar,
- [TBT: A conversation with JoAnn Falletta, 1991](https://wophil.org/tbt-joann-falletta-1991/) - We are so excited to share this archived broadcast (from KPFK's Pacifica Radio, 1991, 2 hours in length) that features an interview with Maestro JoAnn Falletta from 1991. The Women's Philharmonic (still known as The Bay Area Women's Philharmonic) had just released its first recording, "Baroquen Treasures" -- directed by Falletta. The palpable excitement about
- [Monday Link Round Up: May 25, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-may-25-2020/) - News and music to start your week! The New York Times introduced readers this week to the Iranian Female Composers Association, members of which are included above (from left: Anahita Abbasi, Aida Shirazi, and Niloufar Nourbakhsh). Learn about this wonderful organization and listen in to the fabulous music being created. The San Francisco Classical Voice
- [Monday Link Round Up: May 18, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-may-18-2020/) - News and music to start your week! Don't miss 5 Questions to Sunita LeGallou, who is a the producer and host of Music for PhD's, a podcast that features different Canadian composers each episode. LeGallou is, herself, a visual artist and paints to a piece by that composer in real time. It's a fascinating visual
- [Follow up to the 2020-2021 Repertoire Report](https://wophil.org/follow-up-to-the-2020-2021-repertoire-report/) - We went back to the numbers - and looked back over the past three seasons - to see how the most prestigious ensembles in the United States are shaping their programming in terms of inclusion and diversity. There has been significant pressure in recent years, between the #MeToo movement and the 2020 Centennial of Women's
- [Monday Link Round Up: May 11, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-may-11-2020/) - News and music to start your week! Belated Happy Mother's Day greetings! Continue the celebration with Classical FM's recommendations for music to honor mothers - including works by Amy Beach, Rebecca Dale (pictured above), Roxanna Panufnik, and Rachel Bruerville. In the ultimate age of at-home listening, Opera News shared 10 Essential Works By Women Composers
- [Monday Link Round Up: May 4, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-may-4-2020/) - News and music to start your week! The Washington Post has more about music being created during the current crisis - including more about Lisa Bielawa's Broadcast from Home, the fourth installment was released this past week. Bielawa, pictured above, is an American composer based in New York City, and her awards include the Prix
- [Met Opera to stream Kaija Saariaho's Opera, <em>L'amour de loin</em> on May 6-7](https://wophil.org/met-opera-kaija-saariaho/) - We are happy to report that the Met Opera's ongoing daily streams (offered in response to their cancelling the remainder of their season because of COVID-19) will feature a work by a woman, Kaija Saariaho's "L'amour de loin," on Wed. May 6. Watch it on the Met website or through the Met App. More info
- [Kaija Saariaho: A Primer](https://wophil.org/kaiji-saariaho/) - By Susan M. Brown Though now hailed as one of the greatest Finnish composers of her generation, Kaija Saariaho readily recalls a time at the Sibelius Academy when male teachers balked at teaching a "pretty girl," claiming it was a waste of their time. But Saariaho, who as a child would ask her mother to
- [Monday Link Round Up: April 27, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-april-27-2020/) - News and music to start your week! Happy birthday to Dame Ethel Smyth! (April 22) Read reflections about the great composer, pictured right, by WPA Board Member Robyn Bramhall. There's a wonderful new newsletter, "Fantastic Women Composers and Where To Find Them" (we are told the title is a Harry Potter reference :-) ). Created
- [On her birthday, thoughts about Ethel Smyth](https://wophil.org/birthday-ethel-smyth/) - By Robyn Bramhall -- Our author is a WPA Board Member and Secretary who has been involved with WPA since our inception, and who also worked with The Women's Philharmonic for almost the entirety of its influential and important lifespan, including serving as its President. Today we celebrate the birth of Dame Ethel Smyth (1858-1944),
- [Monday Link Round Up: April 20, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-april-20-2020/) - News and music to start your week! The Digital Festival of Women in Music ( German version, Feminale der Musik) continues TODAY (April 20) with live interviews about Ethel Smyth (with Marleen Hoffmann) and Rebecca Clarke (with WPA President Liane Curtis, in English :-) German time, 20:00, 2 pm US East Coast time, 11 AM
- [Monday Link Round Up: April 13, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-april-13-2020/) - News and music to start your week! Another work by Pauline Oliveros, pictured above, is being performed during this time of social distancing (the first being her Tuning Meditation, taking place every Saturday in April). The LA Times has the story of Opera Povera organizing a performance of Oliveros' The Lunar Opera: Deep Listening For_Tunes, -- timed
- [Monday Link Round Up: April 6, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-april-6-2020/) - News and music to start your week! Frank Oteri at New Music Box has another insightful interview to share. This time with composer, vocalist, and flautist Nathalie Joachim, pictured above. Read on and listen in at NewMusicBox. The Center for Art and Media of Karlsruhe University (ZTM) is launching a four-week online conference on women
- [Monday Link Round Up: March 30, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-march-30-2020/) - News and music to start your week! Congratulations go to composer and flautist Valerie Coleman, pictured, who was named 2020 Classical Woman of the Year by Performance Today. Read more at Broadway World. Alex Ross writes at his blog, The Rest is Noise, about the upcoming performance of Kate Soper's opera The Romance of the Rose,
- [Monday Link Round Up: March 23, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-march-23-2020/) - News and music to start your week! We are saddened to hear about the death of trailblazer Doriot Anthony Dwyer, pictured above. She was the second ever woman to be awarded a principal chair position with an American orchestra. She played principal flute with The Boston Symphony for 38 years. The New York Times has
- [Quinn Mason on Vítězslava Kaprálová](https://wophil.org/quinn-mason-on-vitezslava-kapralova/) - Once again, we are happy to welcome Quinn Mason (fresh from his Seattle conducting debut) as Guest Blogger! He offers his insights on Vítězslava Kaprálová, in particular two of her orchestral works, Rustic Suite (1938) and Military Sinfonietta (1936-1937). Vítězslava Kaprálová Brief biographical sketch Vítězslava Kaprálová was born in Brno on January 24, 1915, the
- [Remembering Karin Pendle (by Annie Janeiro Randall)](https://wophil.org/karin-pendle-by-annie-janeiro-randall/) - Annie Janeiro Randall, Professor of Music at Bucknell University, is the author of Dusty! Queen of the Postmods and editor of Music, Power, and Politics. We invited her to share her remembrance of Prof. Karin Pendle, and are happy to offer her thoughts, below. We mentioned Prof. Pendle's passing a few weeks ago and linked to Dr.
- [What to Listen to During Social Distancing](https://wophil.org/what-to-listen-to-during-social-distancing/) - These are anxious times. As we do our part to participate in the self-imposed social isolation that most of the world is finding themselves in these days, we have collected some resources that we may all turn to in the coming restless days. Many arts organizations are cancelling events, or moving them to be online
- [Monday Link Round Up: March 16, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-march-16-2020/) - News (including some good news!) and music to start your week! The NPR Show Jazz Night in America has an hour long conversation with bassist Linda May Han Oh, pictured above. She speaks about her love of the form, her compositions, and what it's like to be a woman working in jazz. Read more at the
- [On the death of the Hungarian composer and pedagogue Erzsébet Szőnyi](https://wophil.org/on-the-death-of-erzsebet-szonyi/) - We received this moving obituary of Erzsébet Szőnyi, written by Matthias Funkhauser of the German Kodály Society. Erzsébet Szőnyi (25 April 1924 – 28 December 2019) (also Erzsébet Szilágyi) was a Hungarian composer and music teacher. Her works encompass symphonic compositions, chamber music works, art songs, and oratorios. She also wrote numerous stage works including eight operas. (from Wikipedia) Erzsébet
- [Monday Link Round Up: March 9, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-march-9-2020/) - News and music to start your week! We hope that all women --and people of all genders! -- were able to celebrate and enjoy International Women's Day yesterday (March 8). There were musical celebrations around the world! Classical-Music.com compiled a selection of broadcasts and events being held in celebration. Sadly, some (like that of the
- [Monday Link Round Up: March 2, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-march-2-2020/) - News and music to start your week! The Baltimore Sun reports that next season at The Baltimore Symphony will be the last for conductor Marin Alsop, pictured above. She has served as the conductor and artistic leader of the ensemble for 14 years. Opera Philadelphia has announced that they will open the 2020-2021 season with
- [Conferences, concerts as eventful Women's History month is launched](https://wophil.org/conferences-concerts-as-eventful-womens-history-month-is-launched/) - March is always busy, and this one is especially so! Feb. 29 (Leap day!) we have a concert by the Bay Area Rainbow Symphony featuring the he West Coast premiere of Ethel Smyth's Overture to her opera The Boatswain's Mate. This overture includes Smyth's famous anthem, The March of the Women, and is included in
- [Monday Link Round Up: February 24, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-february-24-2020/) - News and music to start your week! The Seattle Times introduces readers to Lina Gonzalez-Granados (pictured above) - one of the first Latin American women to hold a conducting position with the Seattle Symphony. BTW, Gonzalez-Granados' Boston-based Unitas Ensemble received a WPA Performance Grant in 2018 for a concert that included the north American premiere
- [Remembering a pioneering scholar of women in music, Dr. Karin Pendle](https://wophil.org/karin-pendle-scholar-mentor/) - In the past few years, so many have "discovered" the issue of women composers and gender in classical music. That is -- for the most part -- great! But sometimes it does seem like we keep on "re-inventing the wheel." If instead we recognized and built on the work that has taken place in the
- [Monday Link Round Up: February 17, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-february-17-2020/) - News and music to start your week! Huge congratulations to Hildur Guðnadóttir, pictured above, the first woman to ever win an Oscar for a dramatic score. Now learn more about her, and listen in to more works! Pitchfork offers a great place to start! The Seattle Opera appointed what is believed to be the country's
- [Monday Link Round Up: February 10, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-february-10-2020/) - News and music to start your week! The New York Philharmonic is commissioning 19 new works by women composers in honor of the 100th anniversary of Women's Suffrage. Read more about the project, titled simply Project 19, on the New York Philharmonic's website or at the NYTimes. The first debut is by Tania León, pictured
- [Monday Link Round Up: February 3, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-february-3-2020/) - News and music to start your week! Congratulations go to Jennifer Higdon, pictured, for winning the Grammy for Best contemporary classical compositions for her Harp Concerto. Caroline Shaw also won the Grammy for Best Chamber Music Performance for her piece, Orange, performed by Attacca Quartet. See the full list of Classical Winners here. NewMusicBox rasies the
- [TBT: 1996 -- TWP Performs (and records) Chen Yi](https://wophil.org/tbt-1996-chen-yi/) - In celebration of Chinese New Year, we'd like to recall composer Chen Yi's marvelous work with The Women's Philharmonic. In the mid-1990s, Chen Yi served as composer-in-residence for The Women's Philharmonic (TWP). This role culminated in 1996 with the beautiful CD of TWP led by JoAnn Falletta, of Music by Chen Yi, the fourth of
- [Monday Link Round Up: January 27, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-january-27-2020/) - Music and news to start your week! For the first time ever, the orchestra of the Academy Awards Ceremony (the Oscars, Feb. 9) will be led by a woman. Congratulations go to Irish conductor Eímear Noone, pictured above, who will lead excerpts from the films nominated for Best Music (Original Score). Noone herself is both
- [Juilliard's 2020 Focus festival - Trailblazers: Women Composers of the 20th Century](https://wophil.org/juilliard-2020-focus-fest/) - We are welcoming composer, pianist and soprano Tamara Cashour to our blog as our New York City-based correspondent. Tamara sends her first installment: In 2020, Juilliard continues to ride the crest of the Zeitgeist by presenting an all-women composer concert series for their annual FOCUS festival, a festival which has typically espoused a single thematic idea,
- [Monday Link Round Up: January 20, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-january-20-2020/) - News and Music to start your week! Wishing everyone a meaningful and reflective Martin Luther King, Jr. Day! Celebrate by listing in to DiscoverClassical.com which features a day of music programming by Black composers - including works by Florence Price and Margaret Bonds. The Los Angeles Times talks about the legacy of George Walker (pictured)
- [TBT -- The Women's Phil as an American Orchestra (1999)](https://wophil.org/tbt-twp-as-an-american-orchestra-1999/) - An article published by New Music Box on Sept. 1, 1999, celebrates The Women's Philharmonic as one of twenty orchestras that are making a special commitment to new American music. Author Andrew Druckenbrod notes that TWP ... has commissioned 35 works since its first concert in 1981, the preponderance of which are by American composers.
- [Symphony Guide Featuring Louise Farrenc](https://wophil.org/symphony-guide-featuring-louise-farrenc/) - In case you missed it, Tom Service, music critic for The Guardian, featured Louise Farrenc's Third Symphony in his running Symphony Guide series on his blog. It's always wonderful to see a historic(!) woman(!)'s work being featured in a serious column—but this piece is a personal favorite, so it was an even more meaningful surprise. Of the fourth movement Service
- [Repertoire to Know: Louise Farrenc](https://wophil.org/repertoire-to-know-louise-farrenc/) - Only 13 days left to submit your Performance Grant application! If you are still in need of inspiration, consider the work of Louise Farrenc. Farrenc (1804-1875) is a personal favorite of mine, and stands out as being a prolific composer in the 19th century, finishing numerous works for piano, voice, and chamber ensembles - but also
- [Monday Link Round Up: January 13, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-january-13-2020/) - News and music to start your week! Jessie Montgomery, pictured above, is profiled by Angela Allen, about diving into the world of opera. Read more at Classical Voices in America. The Daffodil Perspective has a list of 10 ways to make classical music more accessible. Read the great blog article here! Rebecca Letjes, writing for
- [Remembering Dr. Nancy B. Reich](https://wophil.org/dr-nancy-b-reich/) - The expanded and updated version of this page is here. Thank you and sorry for the detour! https://wophil.org/nancy-reich-tribute/ On January 31, 2019, renowned musicologist Dr. Nancy B. Reich passed away at the age of 94. Her extensive obituary is available via the New York Times. Dr. Reich was a tremendous advocate for music by female composers,
- [Congratulations to the 2019 WPA Grant Winners!](https://wophil.org/congratulations-to-the-2019-wpa-grant-winners/) - The 2019 WPA Performance Grant cycle was our most exciting - and most challenging - so far! We had a record breaking 92 applicants and all of the judges were impressed with the variety of engaging programs that are planned for the coming years! Unfortunately, difficult decisions needed to be made in offering funding, as
- [Monday Link Round Up: January 6, 2020](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-january-6-2020/) - News and music to start your week! What better way to start off the new year than with Musicology Duck's Listen Wider Challenge! The goal is to encourage music enthusiasts to move out of their comfort zone and expand their playlists to include a wider variety of works, composers, styles, and representation. A wonderful reminder
- [All kinds of reasons to love Amy Beach's "Gaelic" Symphony!](https://wophil.org/love-amy-beachs-gaelic-symphony/) - Paired with a work by Stanford in Irish-themed evening An edited and shortened version of this article appeared in the Boston Musical Intelligencer. The Boston Globe had an exciting piece last week in anticipation of the performance of Beach's "Gaelic" by the Mercury Orchestra on August 7. The Mercury Orchestra's performance of Beach's monumental work emphasizes
- [TBT -- Celebrating The Women's Philharmonic!](https://wophil.org/tbt-celebrating-twp-2000/) - Happy New Year! We are starting a TBT "Throwback Thursday" series to highlight some of the achievements of The Women's Philharmonic, the great and influential ensemble (1980-2004). I was reading some work by music critic Joshua Kosman, and I came across the review from 2000 linked below. There are certainly details I disagree with; Amy
- [Joshua Kosman's Tribute to The Women's Philharmonic](https://wophil.org/joshua-kosman-twp-today/) - Joshua Kosman is my favorite music critic. His energy, devotion, precision in focusing on the important issues as well as having a perspective on "the big picture" mean that I never tire of reading his work. I often ponder how fortunate the Bay Area of California is to have his enthusiasm and invigorating insights. That
- [Monday Link Round Up: December 30, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-december-30-2019/) - News and music to start your week! With 2020 only a few days away, now is the time to grab your new WPA Calendar! Newly revised and better than ever - featuring the birthdays of historic and contemporary composers, and celebrating the anniversaries of exceptional works in music history composed by women. Speaking of exceptional
- [Monday Link Round Up: December 23, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-december-23-2019/) - News and music to start your week! Musicologist Bonnie Gordon has a wonderful piece in The New York Times about the life and work of Barbara Strozzi, who turns 400 this year. Strozzi, pictured above, was a renowned singer and prolific composer during the 17th century, and her work continues to be increasingly recognized. Annea
- [Monday Link Round Up: December 16, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-december-16-2019/) - News and music to start your week! Our 2020 Calendars are hot off of the press! Get yours - and gift one to a friend - here! We brought in rising-star artist Micaela Brody to design the calendar, which features twelve important premieres by women from the 17th c to the present, as well as
- [Project W by the Chicago Sinfonietta -- CD Review by Quinn Mason](https://wophil.org/project-w-chicago-sinfonietta-cd/) - We've followed the important work of the Chicago Sinfonietta for many years (for instance, here is our 2013 interview with their music director, Mei Ann Chen) and are happy to present a review of their latest CD, reviewed by Quinn Mason. Quinn's previous post for us was "On Diversity in Music." Cedille Records has recently
- [Monday Link Round Up: December 8, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-december-8-2019/) - News and music to start your week! Congratulations to Eun Sun Kim, pictured, who was named the next music director of the San Francisco Opera - and the only Asian woman to hold an artistic leadership role with any major opera company in North America. Read more at Datebook (of the SF Chronicle), the San
- [Monday Link Round Up: December 2, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-december-2-2019/) - News and music to start your week! This week we learned of the amazing Ofentse Pitse (pictured above) – the 27 year old South African is the first conductor and CEO of an all-black orchestra, called Anchored Sound. Learn more about composer Tania León at the Library of Congress Performing Arts Blog: In the Muse. A researcher
- [Monday Link Round Up: November 25, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-november-25-2019/) - News and music to start your week! Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto was performed at Susquehanna University under the baton of Jordan Randall Smith this past weekend! One of the performances honoring her 200th year! Read more here. Andrew Clements of The Guardian has another review of Caroline Shaw’s new album with the Attacca Quartet. The music of Florence
- [CONCERT REVIEW:  Ustvolskaya and Eckhardt-Gramatté featured by The Symphony of the City of New York](https://wophil.org/concert-review-ustvolskaya-and-eckhardt-gramatte-featured-by-the-symphony-of-the-city-of-new-york/) - Thanks to NYC-based composer, coach, organist and pianist Tamara Cashour for her review of this important recent concert! “Music Born from Times of Strife” — All Saints Episcopal Church, Manhattan, NYC — Sat. Nov. 9, 2019 The Symphony of the City of New York offered a musically vibrant program on November 9th, as part of their Sally Jenks Memorial Concert
- [DSO Women in Classical Music Symposium: Bringing “First and Only” into Community](https://wophil.org/dso-women-in-classical-music/) - [et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”]Dr. Penny Brandt offers this report on the recent Symposium in Dallas:Dr. Penny BrandtThe “Women in Classical Music Symposium” hosted by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra was held this week at the Morton Meyerson Symphony Center in downtown Dallas, Texas. Organizers included President and CEO of the DSO Kim Noltemy,
- [Monday Link Round Up: November 18, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-november-18-2019/) - News and music to start your week! Congratulations to composer Gabriela Ortiz for her recent premiere with the LA Philharmonic. Her Yanga for orchestra and choir, was commissioned by the LA Phil. Learn more at NPR or listen in below. Congratulations are also owed to Professor Josephine Wright (pictured above), who teaches at The College of
- [Another perspective: The Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Women in Classical Music Symposium](https://wophil.org/another-perspective-the-dallas-symphony-orchestras-women-in-classical-music-symposium/) - Last week Penny Brandt reflected on the DSO Symposium, but we certainly felt such an important event could be looked at from multiple perspectives, so we are happy to welcome back Quinn Mason. By Quinn Mason We’re well aware of some of the problems in the classical music profession but how often do we ask
- [Monday Link Round Up: November 11, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-november-11-2019/) - News and music to start your week! Marin Alsop is the new chief conductor of Vienna's ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra - it's the first time a woman has been named chief conductor in Austria. Read on at RTL Today. Tom Huizenga of NPR's Deceptive Cadence reviews Caroline Shaw's new work for voice and string quartet
- [Nancy Reich Honored with AMY Award](https://wophil.org/nancy-reich-honored-with-amy-award/) - Ossining, NY -- Sept. 20. 2012 As President of Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy, I am proud to grant the AMY Award for Lifetime achievement in Music Scholarship to Dr. Nancy B. Reich. Her book, Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman (1985; rev. ed. 2001), was the first book of serious musicological scholarship devoted to a female musician. The
- [Monday Link Round Up: November 4, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-november-4-2019/) - News and music to start your week! In sad, but perhaps not surprising news, The Guardian reports that according to the Musicians Union, half of its members have received harassment at work, and a significant percentage of those who chose to leave their careers in music do so because of the abuse and sexism. Soprano
- [Libby Larsen Opera in Staged Reading, Oct. 31](https://wophil.org/libby-larsen-opera-reading/) - Libby Larsen's "Barnum's Bird," a chamber opera about Jenny Lind, the superstar soprano "Swedish nightingale" and P.T. Barnum, who launched her on a 150-performance U.S. tour, will receive a staged reading at Circle in the Square Theatre in New York City on Thurs. Oct. 31. Larsen describes her work as a means to ponder our
- [Monday Link Round Up: October 28, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-october-28-2019/) - News and music to start your week! It's the perfect time of year to revisit one of our favorite blog posts about Elisabeth Lutyens (pictured above) who is often remembered as a composer for her many contributions to horror movie soundtracks! Enjoy! If you dare .... And to check out some recent horror soundtracks by
- [Monday Link Round Up: October 21, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-october-21-2019/) - News and Music to start your week! Last week saw the New York Premiere of Unsuk Chin's "Su," concerto for sheng, which had its world premiere in 2009. The New York Times spoke to Ms. Chin (pictured above) in advance of the Philharmonic's performance, led by Susanna Mälkki. .Listen on Soundcloud to Melissa Dunphy's conversation with
- [Monday Link Round Up: October 14, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-october-14-2019/) - News and music to start your week! Contemporary Musical Theatre interviews composer Georgia Stitt. The focus is the organization Maestra Music which Stitt founded "to give support, visibility, and community to the women who make the music in the musical theater industry." Read Five Questions to composer Katherine Balch from I Care if you Listen.
- [Monday Link Round Up: October 7, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-october-7-2019/) - News and music to start your week! Music Specialist Susan Clermont, at the Library of Congress, wrote a post for the LOC blog "In the Muse" to celebrate the life and work of Barabara Strozzi, pictured above. The Baroque era composer and singer published over 7 books of compositions during her lifetime - but only
- [Monday Link Round Up: September 30, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-september-30-2019/) - News and music to start your week! The Philadelphia Orchestra has announced that they have discovered letters from Clara Schumann in their archives! This is just after Clara's 200th birthday celebration in which many world-famous ensembles spoke about her achievements, but no top-tier U.S. orchestra programmed any of her works. Read more at the Philadelphia
- [Featured Guest Blogger: Quinn Mason on Diversity in Music](https://wophil.org/featured-guest-blogger-quinn-mason-on-diversity/) - We found Quinn Mason's Youtube channel devoted to women conductors some months ago. This is truly an amazing channel, featuring more than 150 recordings of ensembles led by 50+ different women conductors, representing a different range of backgrounds, ages and nationalities. Plenty of pieces composed by women are included as well. He also has specialty
- [Monday Link Round Up: September 23, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-september-23-2019/) - News and music to start your week! History was made at the Philadelphia Orchestra when they performed Umoja by Valerie Coleman - the first classical work by a living African American woman that they have every performed. Read more at The Philadelphia Inquirer. After last year's Supreme Court confirmation hearing of Brett Kavanaugh, several composers responded
- [Monday Link Round Up: September 16, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-september-16-2019/) - News and music to start the week! There was a lot of coverage of Clara Schumann's 200th Birthday on Friday! Read more through the Library of Congress blog, from Isata Kanneh-Mason (who recently recorded Clara's works for piano) at The Guardian, find a thorough synopsis of her life and works at Deutsche Welle, and listen
- [Monday Link Round Up: September 9, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-september-9-2019/) - News and music to start your week! The topic of women's bodies - and body shaming - is not new to the world of classical music, and opera in particular. In recent news, soprano Kathryn Lewek received more words on her body in a review than about her actual performance. Read more at BBC News
- [Monday Link Round Up: September 2, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-september-2-2019/) - Celebrating women's work in music - today and every day! Happy Labor Day (in the U.S.!) An excellent new Podcast from Listening to Ladies was just released with Elizabeth Blair speaking to Eleanor Alberga. Don't miss it! NPR's All Things Considered reviews the upcoming new release of Julia Wolfe's latest large scale piece and recording, Fire
- [Monday Link Round Up: August 26, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-august-26-2019/) - News and music to start your week! We are now accepting applications for our Performance Grants! Find funding to support U.S. performances of works by women composers! Erica Jeal reviews a new recording of chamber works - specifically pieces for cello and piano - by Fanny Hensel (pictured) and Felix Mendelssohn for The Guardian. Also
- [Announcing the WPA Orchestral Events Calendar](https://wophil.org/announcing-the-wpa-events-calendar/) - We are always thrilled to hear about performances of works by women - but inevitably fail in catching all of the performances and sharing all the good news. We're proud of the community we have built surrounding the legacy of The Women's Philharmonic and want to share all of the events (and forward momentum!) that
- [Monday Link Round Up: August 19, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-august-19-2019/) - News and music to start your week! Congratulations to the winners of the 2019 International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) Search for New Music Competition! See the full press release at the IAWM Website. Lidiya Yankovskaya writes for New Music Box about Shaping the American Operatic Canon - a topic that is apropos to
- [Monday Link Round Up: April 22, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-april-22-2019/) - News and music to start your week! Congratulations to Ellen Reid on her Pulitzer Prize for p r i s m, an opera she composed with a libretto by Roxie Perkins. Read more at NPR, read what Alex Ross wrote about the piece in The New Yorker, and learn more about Reid in a conversation
- [Monday Link Round Up: August 12, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-august-12-2019/) - News and music to start your week! Many throughout the classical music community celebrated Cecile Chaminade's birthday last Thursday! WQXR in New York City republished a video of pianist Joanne Polk performing some of Chaminade's works. And here is Chaminade's Concertstück for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 40, as performed by Rosario Marciano, piano, with the
- [Monday Link Roundup: August 4, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-roundup-august-4-2019/) - News and music to start your week! The 2020 Women Composers Festival of Hartford has been announced! The composer-in-residence will be Melika Fitzhugh (pictured) and the ensemble-in-residence is Craft Ensemble. They have also posted calls for presentations, performances, and scores! Find all the information at the WCFH website. David Weininger helped inform readers of the
- [Vivian Perlis Remembered](https://wophil.org/vivian-perlis-remembered/) - By Jennifer DeLapp-Birkett, Ph.D., musicology, jdelapp88@gmail.com 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 jazz. Among her greatest achievements is the nationally recognized Oral History of American Music at Yale University
- [Monday Link Roundup: July 29, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-roundup-july-29-2019/) - News and music to start your week! Don't miss composer Emily Doolittle's wonderful piece about her experience with gender imbalance in concert programming. It is wonderfully titled, Why Yes, I Do Want My Music Performed and is available on NewMusicBox. Chapman University posted a conversation with conductor Kalena Bovell (pictured above), a Chapman graduate. She
- [Monday Link Round Up: July 22, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-july-22-2019/) - News and music to start your week! Conductor Karina Canellakis (pictured) made BBC Proms history by being the first woman conductor to lead the ensemble at the First Night of the Proms. Read more about the historic night, and the kick off of the 2019 Proms Season, at BBC.com. The opening night kicked off with
- [Monday Link Round Up: July 15, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-july-15-2019/) - News and music to start your week! In case you missed it, don't miss reading Megan Lavengood's excellent piece on gender and hiring as it relates to the field of Music Theory Andrew Clements reviews the new recording by Isata Kanneh-Mason (pictured) of piano works by Clara Schumann. Read on at The Guardian. Also at
- [Monday Link Round Up: July 8, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-july-8-2019/) - News and music to start your week! Congratulations to Akiko Fujimoto (pictured above), the first woman to be named Artistic Director of the Mid-Texas Symphony. Last season the ensemble had a public audition process to find the new director, with four finalists each leading a concert. Fujimoto was a somewhat familiar face as she was
- [Monday Link Round Up: July 1, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-july-1-2019/) - News and music to start your week! Jessica Duchen of The JC has the story of Erika Fox, a composer born in Vienna in 1936 who now at age 82 is celebrating the release of the first album of her compositions. The CD features chamber pieces spanning a 25-year period (1980-2005). Says Fox: "I’ve got
- [BBC Proms 2019: By the Numbers](https://wophil.org/bbc-proms-2019-by-the-numbers/) - Much has already been noted about the coming performances in the 2019 Proms Season - and the lack of women composers being represented. Editorials appeared in The Guardian shortly after the 2019 Program was announced noting specifically that while the number of women being heard this year is impressive, it is still a far cry
- [Monday Link Round Up: June 24, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-june-24-2019/) - News and music to start your week! Marin Alsop has started a fellowship for women conductors to help encourage the number of women entering the field. She was interviewed by the New York Times about this new project, her career until this point, and the hurdles that women conductors continue to face. Several organizations, including
- [Monday Link Round Up: June 17, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-june-17-2019/) - Music and News to start your week! The New York Times profiled Alma Deutscher - violinist, pianist, and composer who has been putting the classical music world in awe since she was just 4 years old. Now 14, she's working on a retrospective album and also discusses her future aspirations. Pass on the word! Women
- [Costa Rican orchestra features women composers](https://wophil.org/costa-rican-orchestra-features-women-composers/) - The Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional (OSN -- National Symphony Orchestra) of Costa Rica presents a tribute to women composers on June 14 and 16, 2019. The concert is conducted by Gabriela Mora Fallas (pictured left), returning for her second time to lead the orchestra; for her first time, two years ago, she received a National Award
- [Monday Link Round Up: June 10, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-june-10-2019/) - News and music to start your week! Musicians in Bonn, Germany celebrated the 200th birthday of Clara Schumann with Schumannfest! The event, which runs from June 1 to June 16, will include works by many women composers, not just Clara. However, there will be a special focus on her anniversary year, including two biographical films
- [Clara's Schumannfest](https://wophil.org/claras-schumannfest/) - The city of Bonn has hosted an annual Schumannfest since 1998 to celebrate the lives and music of two of the city's most famous residents: Robert Schumann and Ludwig van Beethoven. However, in 2007 the name of the festival changed from the Bonn Schumann Festival to Schumannfest, "to illustrate the core concerns of the festival:
- [Monday Link Round Up: June 3, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-june-3-2019/) - News and music to start your week! The exciting conference Women, Feminists, and Music: Transforming Tomorrow Today kicks off on Thursday, at Berklee College of Music in Boston. The conference brings together the International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) and the academic meeting Feminist Theory and Music, as well as Berklee's recently formed Institute
- [Joan Tower Honored by League of American Orchestras](https://wophil.org/joan-tower-lao/) - Congratulations to Joan Tower who will be awarded the Golden Baton at this year's League of American Orchestras Conference in Nashville, TN (June 3-5)! The Golden Baton is organization's highest honor. One of Tower's most well known works, Made in America, was commissioned by a consortium of 65 orchestras throughout the country through the League of
- [Miriam Gideon's "Fortunato" Premiered](https://wophil.org/miriam-gideons-fortunato-premiered/) - We were thrilled to hear the stream of Miriam Gideon's 1958 chamber opera, Fortunato, last week. This was the world premiere of this work, which Gideon apparently wrote hoping that it would be performed by the NBC Opera Theatre. She composed it in three acts, and orchestrated the first act. While her hope was that
- [Monday Link Round Up: May 27, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-may-27-2019/) - News and music to start your week. As we pause on Memorial Day, here are some works by women composers appropriate for today's reflection. Joan Tower's Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman - a play off of Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man - is a brilliant work. Julia Perry's Stabat Mater is a poignant work,
- [Monday Link Round Up: May 20, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-may-20-2019/) - News and music to start your week! Daniel Temkin is writing a series for New Music Box about ethics in music - with the most recent article being who in the new music world gets heard and why, including issues of representation. Read on here. Justin Davidson shares the history and music of French composer
- [Monday Link Round Up: May 13, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-may-13-2019/) - News and music to start your week! After a brief hiatus, Listening to Ladies is back with a new episode! Don't miss Elizabeth Blair's conversation with Kaley Lane Eaton. Find more information, images, and links on the LtL website and listen in below! Alex Ross pointed his readers to an article about Canadian composer Linda
- [The Impact of The Women's Philharmonic: Pamela Wilson](https://wophil.org/the-womens-phil-pamela-wilson/) - We received this beautiful testimonial from Pamela Wilson a while -- OK, over a year -- ago. What a fantastic statement of the unexpected and ongoing resonances of The Women's Philharmonic! Thank you, Pamela! Pamela Wilson works in advancement at Connecticut College and is the founder and director of the New London Drone Orchestra. The
- [Monday Link Round Up: May 6, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-may-6-2019/) - News to start your week! On entertainment site Vulture, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Justin Davidson discusses the work of Lili Boulanger (pictured), and why it is so deserving of the performances it is finally beginning to receive. Jennifer Dautermann at NewMusicBox has a great article titled Listening To and Learning From Each Other - a great
- [Monday Link Round Up: April 29, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-april-29-2019/) - News and music to start your week! WQXR often posts listicles of note - this week they shared again their list of 12 Romantic Composers Not Named 'Liszt' or 'Brahms'. Included are: Louise Farrenc, Clara Schumann, Augusta Holmès, Teresa Carreño, Cecile Chaminade, and Dora Pejačević. Last week we shared our findings in the 2019-2020 concert season
- [2019-2020 Season: By the Numbers](https://wophil.org/2019-2020-season-by-the-numbers/) - The 2019-2020 season announcements have been made, so now it’s time to crunch the numbers. As in years past, we looked at the top 21 orchestras with the highest operating budgets throughout the country to see what, and who, they were playing.* You can see last year’s report here. The information we gathered was directly
- [SAM Conference: Day 3](https://wophil.org/sam-conference-day-3/) - Our adventures at SAM in New Orleans continue with more fantastic papers, food, and camaraderie! On Saturday morning I attended a truly wonderful session focusing on the lives and music of Florence Price and Margaret Bonds, and considering new and intersectional ways to analyze and appreciate their respective bodies of work. Kori Hill presented on
- [Monday Link Round Up: April 15, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-april-15-2019/) - News and music to start your week! Sorry to be late with our update, we're just back from Minneapolis, where huge things are happening at the Minnesota Orchestra with Maestro Sarah Hicks! A few weeks ago, the hip-hop artist Dessa live-recorded an album with the orchestra, a first for a hip-hop artists and a major
- [Monday Link Round Up: April 8, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-april-8-2019/) - News and music to start your week! The Philadelphia Orchestra was in the news this week for hiring two new conductors - both of whom happen to be women. Erina Yashima has been appointed assistant conductor, and Lina Gonzalez-Granados is the newly appointed conducting fellow. Read more at the Philly Inquirer. We are particularly excited
- [Monday Link Round Up: April 1, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-april-1-2019/) - News and music to start your week! Smithsonian Magazine has a great article about Hawai'i's last ruler and composer Queen Lili'uokalani. Last year a new orchestra formed in the UK specifically for musicians with disabilities. Classical FM has a story on how the first year has gone and how they are looking forward to the
- [Monday Link Round Up: March 25, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-march-25-2019/) - News and music to start your week! Did you read all of our reports from the Society for American Music conference in New Orleans? You can catch up on Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3! The Boston Globe has a great piece on the efforts by conductor Thomas Wilkins to diversify the Boston Symphony
- [SAM Conference: Day 2](https://wophil.org/sam-conference-day-2/) - Friday brought another exciting day of conversation, connection, and potential for future collaboration! After a day of papers and conversations the WPA team had the opportunity to visit the historic Cabildo - which was the title of and setting for Amy Beach's only opera which incorporates Creole tunes. The evening brought us through Louis Armstrong
- [At Last ! Music by Florence Price performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra](https://wophil.org/at-last-music-by-florence-price-performed-by-the-boston-symphony-orchestra/) - Music by Florence Price performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra -- 70-plus years after she wrote them There is no doubt that Florence Price's music is undergoing a resurgence. The first performance of her music by the Boston Symphony Orchestra – which will perform three movements of her Symphony No. 3 in C minor, on
- [SAM Conference: Day 1](https://wophil.org/sam-conference-day-1/) - We are at the Society for American Music Conference in New Orleans and looking forward to many days of great papers, conversations, and opportunities to advocate for the works of women composers. Today was filled with fascinating and intersectional conversations about music and meaning, race and gender, and how individuals are represented and given a
- [Monday Link Round Up: March 18, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-march-18-2019/) - News and music to start your week! Afghanistan's first all-female orchestra is now on tour in the UK! They will perform in Oxford and London, with the highest profile venue being the British Museum. Read more about the orchestra and the tour at the BBC website. Bachtrack has an in-depth article about the tradition of
- [Concerts & Events March 16-31](https://wophil.org/concerts-events-march-16-31/) - Future Concerts & Events March 16-31 (by U.S. State, alphabetically) California The Bay Area Rainbow Symphony will perform Florence Price's Symphony No. 1 on March 16. On March 24 the Berkeley Symphony will feature Sofia Gubaidulina's Concerto for Symphony Orchestra and Jazz Band. Jessie Montgomery and Louise Farrenc will be featured by the Oakland Symphony on March 22.
- [Monday Link Round Up: March 11, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-march-11-2019/) - Happy Women's History Month, and we hope you had a great International Women's Day! News and music to start your week! Go to the Washington Post to read Anne Midgette's piece last week about International Women's Day, the Boulanger Initiative, and the importance of representation of women in contemporary programming. Then follow up with her
- [Monday Link Round Up: March 4, 2019](https://wophil.org/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
- [Cal State Fullerton Celebrates 18th Annual New Music Festival](https://wophil.org/cal-state-fullerton-celebrates-18th-annual-new-music-festival/) - With a truly exhilarating range of programming the 18th annual CSU Fullerton New Music Festival offered four days of interaction with influential performers and composers and memorable, cutting-edge concerts, February 19-23. Among the highlights were performances by the student ensembles, including the Wind Ensemble which performed Cindy McTee's "The Unquestioned Answer." The CSUF New Music
- [Monday Link Round Up: February 25, 2019](https://wophil.org/mon-link-round-up-feb-25-2019/) - News and Music to start your week! ICYMI, Musicologist Douglas Shadle has a new post at NewMusicBox about the life and legacy of Florence Price, specifically remembered in this #BlackLivesMatter era. If you haven't already, make time for this great piece now! Composer and performer Helga Davis spoke at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in
- [The First Recording of Ethel Smyth’s <em>The Prison</em>](https://wophil.org/recording-of-ethel-smyths-the-prison/) - We welcome our Featured Guest Blogger Dr. Amy Zigler back to share her recent experience! The Recording of Ethel Smyth’s The Prison by James Blachly and the Experiential Orchestra, with Sarah Brailey, soprano, Dashon Burton, bass-baritone, Steven Fox and the Clarion Choir, and Blanton Alspaugh and Brandon Johnson of Soundmirror. 14-15 February
- [Conference Report: American Women Composer-Pianists](https://wophil.org/conference-diovanni/) - The recent international conference "American Women Composer-Pianists" named Amy Beach (1867-1944) and Teresa Carreño (1853-1917) as focal points, in celebration of the notable anniversaries connected with them (the 150th anniversary of Beach's birth, and the 100th anniversary of Carreño's death). But the conference expanded to cover a wide range of other composer-pianists, including the British
- [Camellia Symphony Celebrates Black History Month](https://wophil.org/camellia-symphony-celebrates-black-history-month/) - I hope you are having a great Black History Month! I know I am, and as part of my celebration I attended the Camellia Symphony Orchestra's concert, titled Past, Present, and Future. An ambitious and excellent community orchestra in Sacramento, they offered an exciting program on Saturday in celebration of Black History Month. Now in their
- [Monday Link Round Up: February 18, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-february-18-2019/) - News and Music to start your week! We are saddened to report the loss of Dr. Nancy B. Reich - renowned musicologist and advocate for women's work in music. Her daughter Susanne Reich suggested in her late mother’s obituary the opportunity for people to donate to Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy in Nancy Reich’s memory. You may
- [A musical "blind taste-test" casts light on the biased processes of Canon-formation](https://wophil.org/a-musical-blind-taste-test-casts-light-on-the-biased-processes-of-canon-formation/) - Salastina Music Society carried out a remarkably original experiment last weekend (Oct. 6 & 7) – raising issues of how and why some works get into the classical music canon – and some works don't. Salastina's two directors were struck by a certain piano trio, and astonished that they hadn't heard of it previously. So
- [Monday Link Round Up: February 11, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-february-11-2019/) - News and music to start your week! The Financial Times calls composer Anna Thorvaldsdottír "the most exciting force in Icelandic music since Björk" but clearly she is a dynamic artistic figure outside of Icelandic music! The article looks at her life, music, current projects, and future aspirations (although it's behind a paywall, so we are just
- [Monday Link Round Up: January 21, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-january-21-2019/) - News and music to start your week! Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day! As we remember his life and tragic death, we also work towards a truly equal society. Julia Perry's Stabat Mater seems like an apt soundtrack for this deeply meaningful day: On a positive note, Perry is one of the previously neglected composers
- [Music to Love - Upcoming Concerts](https://wophil.org/music-to-love-upcoming-concerts/) - February is bringing us a wonderful assortment of concerts! Last weekend saw the performances of works by Joan Tower and Amy Beach by the Springfield Symphony (read an excellent review at MassLive), as well as Libby Larsen's Symphony No. 4 by the California Chamber Orchestra. This weekend Orchestra Seattle | Seattle Chamber Singers will perform
- [Monday Link Round Up: February 4, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-february-4-2019/) - News and music to start your week! PBS Newshour had the story about the San Fransciso Civic Symphony and their conductor, Jessica Bejarano. Growing up in an environment that didn't particularly embrace classical music, Bejarano speaks about the challenges she experienced in receiving her classical music education, and now as a Mexican-American woman conductor in
- [The Impact of The Women’s Philharmonic: Ann Krinitsky](https://wophil.org/the-impact-of-twp-ann-krinitsky/) - Continuing the celebration of Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy 10th anniversary, honoring our source of inspiration, namely The Women’s Philharmonic. Our second essay is by Ann Krinitsky. As Director of Marin Symphony Youth Performance programs and the Virtuoso Program at San Domenico School, Ann Krinitsky also conducts Family Concerts with the Marin Symphony. She graduated from the University of California,
- [Monday Link Round Up: January 28, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-january-28-2018/) - News and music to start your week! It's always exciting to listen to a new episode of Listening to Ladies! Episode 24 features a conversation with Alondra Vega-Zaldivar, a Canadian composer born in Cuba. Find more information and examples of her work on the LtL website, and listen in through your favorite Podcast app, or stream it
- [Best of 2018! BBC International Women’s Day Orchestral Concert](https://wophil.org/best-of-2018-bbc-international-womens-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
- [Monday Link Round Up: December 31, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-december-31-2018/) - Wrap up the year with news and music from Women's Philharmonic Advocacy! If you haven't already, be sure to grab your 2019 WPA Calendar - celebrating the lives and work of historic and contemporary women composers! NPR's list of best classical albums of 2018 includes works by Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Caroline Shaw, Gabriella Smith, Alma
- [Monday Link Round Up: Jan. 14, 2019](https://wophil.org/link-round-up-jan-14-2019/) - News to start your week! BachTrack has their 2018 year round up - with some promising and exciting results for women composers and conductors! See the data for yourself at BachTrack. The New York Times has an important piece about just how underrepresented women are in film music. Though there is no lack of women
- [Featured Guest blogger: Musicologists on Fanny Hensel's songs](https://wophil.org/fanny-hensels-songs/) - Dr. Penny Brandt continues her report on the 2018 joint conference of the American Musicological Society/Society for Music Theory. My favorite session at AMS/SMT this year was the Sunday morning joint session on “The Songs of Fanny Hensel” chaired by R. Larry Todd (Duke University). In this session, ten scholars gave "lightning" presentations describing their
- [Monday Link Round Up: January 7, 2019](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-january-7-2019/) - News and music to start your week! As the 2018 retrospectives continue, we also remember those composers who are no longer with us. Don't miss the beautiful remembrance of George Walker written by his son, Gregory, at New Music Box. NPR spoke to violinist Rachel Barton Pine who is committed to preserving and performing the
- [Congratulations to the 2018 Performance Grant Winners!](https://wophil.org/congratulations-to-the-2018-performance-grant-winners/) - The 2018 WPA Performance Grant cycle brought a record number of applicants, exciting and diverse concerts to consider, and many wonderful programs to anticipate throughout the years of 2019 and 2020! As in the past, the strongest applicants programmed works by more than one composer, included works by both contemporary as well as historic composers,
- [Our 2019 Calendar is here!](https://wophil.org/2019-calendar/) - Our new calendar is here! Available at our shop!
- [Monday Link Round Up: November 19, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-november-19-2018/) - News and music to start your week! The Guardian has a profile of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor presented in an editorial by Lenny Henry. The profile highlights a program called Our Classical Century, which can be heard online. Composer Reena Esmail was interviewed by the Los Angeles Times discussing her musical influences, the challenges she has faced as
- [Monday Link Round Up: November 26, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-november-26-2018/) - News and music to start your week! Funny thing - as more women musicians are being asked to listicle their favorite pieces, more works by women are being noted and gaining some much deserved attention. Take, for example, the recent article in The Guardian by saxophonist Jess Gillam who includes in her top five classical
- [Monday Link Round Up: December 3, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-december-3-2018/) - News and music to start your week! I can think of no better way to start a new week than with a new episode of Listening to Ladies! In this latest episode Elizabeth Blair discusses composition with Reena Esmail. Listen below - but find even more links and videos mentioned in the conversation on the
- [Monday Link Round Up: December 10, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-december-10-2018/) - News and music to start your week! Congratulations to Du Yun and Missy Mazzoli for their Grammy nominations in the Best Contemporary Classical Composition category! The Los Angeles Times has the full list of classical nominees, which also includes Laurie Anderson's "Landfall" for Best Chamber Music. Read Joseph Horowitz's article in the Weekly Standard about
- [The Impact of The Women's Philharmonic: Dr. Kathleen McGuire](https://wophil.org/twp-dr-kathleen-mcguire/) - It's time for Women's Philharmonic Advocacy to celebrate our 10th anniversary! We were founded in 2008, so -- before 2018 slips by us -- we are honoring our achievements, our goals, and our source of inspiration, namely The Women's Philharmonic. We were founded with the goal of continuing the legacy of The Women's Philharmonic, and
- [Monday Link Round Up: November 12, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-november-12-2018/) - News and music to start your week! NewMusicBox takes on the importance of hearing, well, new music. It also gives readers ways to advocate for hearing works by living composers! (We can also add, that some of these tips, like writing the orchestra administration to thank them for a performance, are also applicable to works
- [Monday Link Round Up: November 5, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-november-5-2018/) - News and music to start your week! The American Composers Orchestra blog, SoundAdvice, featured a conversation with Joan Tower last week in honor of their performance of her work, Chamber Dance. The piece was included in a concert entirely of work by women composers titled "Phenomenal Women". Learn more about the event, which was held on
- [Monday Link Round Up: October 29, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-october-29-2018/) - News and Music to start your week! Listening to Ladies has a new episode - this week talking to composer Jenn Kirby. Find out more information about Kirby and her works on the website (which also has information on how to help make sure more episodes happen!) and stream the conversation below: Los Angeles Magazine
- [Monday Link Round Up: October 22, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-october-22-2018/) - News and music to start your week! Congratulations to composer Julia Wolfe for being named the Musical America 2019 Composer of the Year! NewMusicBox has more winners. And those not familiar with Wolfe can learn more about the composer, and her Pulitzer Prize winning work, at NPR here or listen in below: Quartz at Work
- [A Weekend of FIRST LADIES in Boston!](https://wophil.org/a-weekend-of-first-ladies-in-boston/) - This weekend brings two performances of a concert titled "First Ladies" from Cappella Clausura, Inc. A professional vocal ensemble based in Boston, Cappella Clausura has been dedicated to performing works by women composers since it's founding - featuring composers who worked in the 9th century to in present day. The acclaimed ensemble, led by Amelia
- [Monday Link Round Up: October 15, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-october-15-2018/) - News and music to start your week! Our congratulations to Tania Leon - composer, conductor, educator, and now member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences! Broadway news has the story. Congratulations also go to Unsuk Chin who was just awarded the Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music and a commission from the New York
- [Monday Link Round Up: October 8, 2018](https://wophil.org/link-round-up-oct-8-2018/) - News and music to start your week! The BBC announced this week that they will be opening up their classical music archives. The trove of recordings - dating back 100 years - will be available online and through a BBC app. I'm looking forward to sifting through the catalog and finding recordings of works by
- [Monday Link Round up: October 1, 2018](https://wophil.org/link-round-up-october-1-2018/) - News to start your week? But this last week was not just any week. For those in the US, the past week was something unique and critical. On Thursday we listened to a woman's account of a violent sexual attack that she experienced. And we heard men -- angry, hostile men -- say we should
- [Linda Luebke Strings Festival & Meira Warshauer](https://wophil.org/linda-luebke-strings-festival-meira-warshauer/) - This weekend (September 29-30) is the 2018 Linda Luebke Strings Festival in Terre Haute, Indiana. The Festival offers a unique experience for strings students to grow in their musicianship through small ensemble experience, music theory, dance, composition, development of technique, and camaraderie with other like-minded young people. The two day festival also offers workshops for
- [Monday Link Round Up: September 24, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-september-24-2018/) - News and music to start your week! WFAE spoke to Nkieru Okoye who was commissioned to compose a new work for The Charlotte Symphony to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the city's founding! Read the interview, or listen in at the WFAE website. Huge news from the Metropolitan Opera which, for the first time in
- [Monday Link Round Up: September 17, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-september-17-2018/) - News and music to start your week! The Pacific Standard spoke to WPA President Liane Curtis about the current state of women's work in symphonic spaces. Read on here! It's Hildegard von Bingen's Feast Day! Celebrate by listening to some of her best known works! In the Muse, the blog for the Arts Division of
- [Monday Link Round Up: September 10, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-september-10-2018/) - News and music to start your week! The Philadelphia Orchestra made a stir in the Spring with their season announcement, and lack of diversity among composers. They walked much of that back with the addition of two (rather small) works by women to the concert season, and promised a score reading of works by six
- [Monday Link Round Up: August 20, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-august-20-2018/) - News and music to start your week! The Philadelphia Orchestra is collaborating with American Composers Orchestra to offer a closed reading session for six up-and-coming women composers. Though not open to the public, the ensemble will perform and critique each work with the composer and administration from other ensembles in an effort to have more
- [Monday Link Round Up: August 27, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-august-27-2018/) - News to start your week! We are saddened by the passing of American Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, pianist, and educator George Walker. He claimed the title of "first" to many achievements in the classical music world, including: first African American pianist to play a recital at New York's Town Hall, first black instrumentalist to play solo
- [2018-19 Season: By The Numbers](https://wophil.org/2018-19-season-by-the-numbers/) - The end of summer marks the beginning of a new orchestral season. As in past years, it's time look at what the top American orchestras have planned for the coming year. I was especially wanted to see if the recent national and international conversations about women and representation had any influence on artistic decisions --
- [Chen Yi and Zhou Long honored by SAM](https://wophil.org/chen-yi-and-zhou-long/) - Timothy Diovanni concludes his reporting on the Society for American Music conference by joining with Liane Curtis and offering insights on the on the Vivian Perlis Concert in Honor of Chen Yi and Zhou Long. Zhou Long and Chen Yi are are Chinese-American composers who were honored with the Society of American Music's distinguished Honorary
- [Monday Link Round Up: September 3, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-september-3-2018/) - News to start your week! Have you seen our report on who is being heard in the 2018-2019 orchestral concert season? Find all the news -- good and bad -- here. Listening to Ladies has a new podcast ready to stream and share! In the latest episode she talks to American composer Judith Shatin. Find
- [Beach's Bal Masqué in Boston Performance](https://wophil.org/beachs-bal-masque-in-boston/) - Update: concert postponed to Aug. 23 because of rain. Amy Beach's delightful waltz, Bal Masqué, op. 22, is part of this week's concert by Boston's Landmark Orchestra. Titled "Symphonic Dances" the Aug. 22 event features "music to move by" with professional and community dancers. Directed by Christopher Wilkins, the concert is free to all. Bal Masqué
- [Monday Link Round Up: August 13, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-august-13-2018/) - News and music to start your week! Hugely important piece by composer and musician Elizabeth Baker at New Music Box. In part: The problem continues when organizations promote “diversity initiatives” using only images of cisgender white women. What these actions and inactions tell women who look like me—women of color, and individuals for whom I
- [Monday Link Round Up: August 6, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-august-6-2018/) - News to start your week! What better way to tackle the new week than a fantastic conversation? Elizabeth Blair speaks with Emily Doolittle in the most recent episode of Listening to Ladies. Learn more at the website, with lots of links and music, stream the episode through your favorite podcast app, or in the player
- [NPR on Female Composers At The Symphony (and the lack thereof)](https://wophil.org/npr-on-female-composers-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
- [A View from Germany: Classical Music is so Sexist](https://wophil.org/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
- [Monday Link Round Up: July 30, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-july-30-2018/) - News and music to start your week! A fascinating article by composer Jenny Giering who compares her own experiences with visions she experienced with migraines and the visions described by Abbess Hildegard von Bingen as she received music and instruction. It is featured in a series discussing disability in The New York Times. Irish composer Siobhán
- [Monday Link Round Up: July 23, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-july-23-2018/) - News and music to start your week! Pianist and musicologist Samantha Ege writes at Sound Studies blog -- Sounding Out! -- about her recent performance at the Australian Gender Diversity in Making Music conference - where she (most probably) gave the Australian premiere of music by Florence Price. This is a "must read" about the
- [Monday Link Round Up: July 16, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-july-16-2018/) - News and music to start your week! The 2018 BBC Proms are off and running (ICYMI here are the statistics of women's representation we put together). Anna Meredith had a piece presented at First Night at the Proms and spoke to Fiona Maddocks about her work. Read more at The Guardian. In response to the
- [BBC Proms 2018: By the Numbers](https://wophil.org/bbc-proms-2018-by-the-numbers/) - The 2018 BBC Proms kicks off today, Friday, July 13 and continues with extensive programming through September. The annual event features what is considered the best of the best in contemporary classical music programming with ensembles, soloists, and conductors from around the world. The schedule of events is enormous, with paid and free concerts, lectures,
- [Monday Link Round Up: July 9, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-july-9-2018/) - News and music to start your week! The mission of Women's Philharmonic Advocacy focuses on leveling the playing field for women composers. The inequities are obvious in our oft-quoted statistics that show the prolific accomplishments of women composers who still do not receive the attention that is due to them. Issues surrounding women performers are
- [Monday Link Round Up: July 2, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-july-2-2018/) - News and music to start your week! Congratulations to Missy Mazzoli who was named as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's new Composer in Residence! We look forward to how her influence, and music, impact the CSO programming in the coming seasons! A new commission for the CSO will premiere in the 2019-2020 season. Three cheers for
- [Monday Link Round Up: June 25, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-june-25-2018/) - News and music to start your week! We were very excited to hear a story on NPR's All Things Considered about the lack of women's music heard at the symphony. The piece explores the current statistics in conversation with Grammy and Pulitzer Prize winning composer Jennifer Higdon. Listen below - and read WPA President Liane
- [Monday Link Round Up: June 18, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-june-18-2018/) - News and Music to start your week! A great new episode of Listening To Ladies is ready to educate, enlighten, and entertain! The conversation with with Sakari Dixon Vanderveer. Check out the website for more information, music, and links - and stream the episode below: The Guardian looks at a recent report that 95% of concerts
- [Monday Link Round Up: June 11, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-june-11-2018/) - News and music to start your week! The Library of Congress blog, In the Muse, highlights Women Composers Hiding in Plain Sight. Written by Music Reference Specialist Melissa E. Wertheimer, she discusses a fantastic photograph she found, and the backstory she uncovered, in the Library of Congress archives! (Spoiler: the photograph and story features one
- [Monday Link Round Up: June 4, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-june-4-2018/) - News and music to start your week! Learn about composer, pianist, arranger, producer Bobbie-Jane Gardner in the latest episode of the Listening to Ladies Podcast! Song of the Lark shares the history of nineteenth century musicologist and black activist Maud Cuney-Hare. A fascinating read of an all-but-forgotten woman and her amazing achievements. There's a new
- [Tuesday Link Round Up: May 29, 2018](https://wophil.org/tuesday-link-round-up-may-29-2018/) - News and music to start your week after a meaningful Memorial Day: Happy 90th birthday to Thea Musgrave! We did a round up of stories about the Scottish American composer's life - but don't miss the conversation Musgrave had with NPR. Thrilled to hear that Roderick Cox has been named the 2018 recipient of the Sir
- [Thea Musgrave at 90](https://wophil.org/thea-musgrave-at-90/) - Conductors and Artistic Directors love celebrating composers anniversary years. There is always tremendous excitement around remembering the work of a beloved composer celebrating a milestone. (Any classical music enthusiast will have a hard time finding any ensemble NOT performing a work, or an entire program, in honor of Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday.) This week ensembles
- [Monday Link Round Up: May 21, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-may-21-2018/) - News to start your week! Amazing new call for new music from Donne in Musica. Women composers of all music backgrounds, ages, and nationalities are invited to submit compositions inspired by the struggle for human rights. The call was inspired by the 70th Anniversary of the Adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Learn
- [Maria Theresia von Paradis](https://wophil.org/maria-theresia-von-paradis/) - Maria Theresia von Paradis (1759-1824) was an Austrian composer, famous for her blindness and her friendship with Mozart. She was the daughter of Joseph Anton Paradis, the Imperial Secretary of Commerce and Court Councilor to the Empress Maria Theresa, after whom this composer was named. Her education included music theory, composition, piano, and voice. Among
- [WPA 2012 Performance Grants](https://wophil.org/wpa-2012-performance-grants/) - Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy Awards over $18,000 in First Ever Performance Grants (2012) (Click here for list of 2012 winners) (Waltham, MA, Nov. 26, 2012) Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy (WPA) announced today the recipients of its inaugural Performance Grants, intended to encourage the performance of both contemporary and historical women composers. Over $18,000 was awarded to more than 20 US
- [Monday Link Round Up: May 14, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-may-14-2018/) - News and music to start your week! In honor of Mother's Day, WQXR has a series of conversations with women composers about motherhood. Hear from Sarah Kirkland Snider, Valerie Coleman, and Marilyn Shrude here. Classical FM has a brief history of women gaining entry to professional orchestras. Read on here. Congratulations to conductor Karina Canellakis who,
- [Monday Link Round Up: May 7, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-may-7-2018/) - News to start your week! A group of female jazz musicians, who call themselves the We Have Voice Collective, are tackling the problem with sexism in the music industry head-on. Inspired by the #MeToo movement they have not only organized, but have put together a code of conduct to be adopted by festivals, venues, educational institutions,
- [Monday Link Round Up: April 30, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-april-30-2018/) - News to start your week! A survey of 600 musicians in the UK reveals "a culture of sexual harassment, bullying and discrimination in orchestras, bands and music education". The Guardian has the story. Listening to Ladies has a new podcast up - this time interviewing Andrea Reinkemeyer. Go to the website for more information, and
- [UPDATE: Smyth's THE PRISON in radio broadcast, April 27](https://wophil.org/ethel-smyths-the-prison-to-receive-north-american-premiere/) - Listen tonight (April 27) to the Johnstown Symphony's April 7 performance -- 7 pm (Eastern Daylight Time) on WQED Radio (Link here) Published April 5: Ethel Smyth's THE PRISON to receive North American Premiere "She is a hero, and it so relates to the things that we are going through with the #MeToo movement, she dealt with
- [Beach's Work to be Performed in Colorado](https://wophil.org/beachs-work-to-be-performed-in-colorado/) - This weekend the Chamber Orchestra of the Springs in Colorado Springs, Colorado will be presenting their final concert of their season titled Timeless Voices and will feature the work of Mozart, Beethoven, and Amy Beach's symphony. Beach's work, Symphony in E Minor, Op. 32, "Gaelic", is the first symphony we know of composed by an American
- [Monday Link Round Up: April 23, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-april-23-2018/) - News to start your week! The Guardian has a conversation with conductor Marin Alsop, who, it was just announced, will again be conducting in the 2018 Proms season. A new initiative created by the Sphinx Organization, the New World Symphony, and the League of American Orchestras is working to create more racial diversity in American
- [Speaking Her Truth: A Discussion with Jessica Rudman and Kendra Preston Leonard](https://wophil.org/speaking-her-truth-a-discussion-with-jessica-rudman-and-kendra-preston-leonard/) - We are delighted to share this conversation between Jessica Rudman (JR) and Kendra Preston Leonard (KPL) as they discuss the upcoming Hartford Opera Theater and Hartford Independence Chamber Orchestra’s program “Speaking Her Truth,” which includes Rudman’s micro-opera Trigger, Rudman and Leonard’s song cycle Four Songs for Lady Macbeth, and their opera Marie Curie Learns to
- [Happy birthday, Imogen Holst!](https://wophil.org/happy-birthday-imogen-holst/) - Today, April 12 is the 111th birthday of the versatile musician Imogen Holst (1907-1984), and Wikipedia has honored her as today's featured article. She spent much of her life as a teacher and director of amateur and student ensembles. She promoted the music of her father, Gustav Holst, served as Benjamin Britten's assistant, and was
- [Monday Link Round Up: April 16, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-april-16-2018/) - News to start your week! Congratulations are due to Jennifer Higdon who was awarded the Michael Ludwig Hemmers Prize in Music Composition. The prize is given to contemporary classical composers of exceptional achievement "who have significantly influenced the field of composition." The Philadelphia Inquirer has more. It has been wonderful to see so much attention
- [Monday Link Round Up: April 9, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-april-9-2018/) - News to start your week! Don't miss this great piece by Kendra Preston Leonard about the myths surrounding composer and pedagogue Nadia Boulanger! Read on at Dr. Leonard's website here. Composer and clarinetist Derek Bermel writes about diversity in the American Orchestra repertoire at NewMusicBox, and how to correct the systemic imbalances. Read his piece,
- [Sarah Hicks, Versatile Conductor, will Lead Minnesota Orchestra in Beach's Symphony](https://wophil.org/sarah-hicks-beach-symphony/) - The San Francisco Classical Voice features conductor Sarah Hicks, who will conduct April 4 and 5 screenings of Batman with the SF Symphony. Conducting live music for films is one of Hicks' specialties, as is Pops concerts. She chose this specialization, which, as she explains, "allows me, in my mind, more interesting work, collaborating with
- [Monday Link Round Up: April 2, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-april-2-2018/) - News to start your week! The Women Composers Festival of Hartford is getting ready to kick off this weekend! Learn more about this exciting and engaging weekend on their website - including lectures, premieres, and many, many hours of music! Jessie Rosen, President and CEO of The League of American Composers, shares important thoughts about
- [Monday Link Round Up: March 26, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-march-26-2018/) - News to start your week! OPERA America has announced recipients for their Grants for Female Composers initiative for 2018. Eight women composers have received funds to support operas currently in development. Read more about the winners, and the forthcoming works, here. And speaking of opera, Tim Diovanni reports on a session about three operas by
- [the 44th Annual SAM Conference (part 1): Three Operas](https://wophil.org/sam-conf-part-1-three-operas/) - Our reporter Tim Diovanni continues his report from the Society for American Music 44th Annual Conference. (Read his Introduction here) Operas by Beach, Smyth, and Higdon: Compelling Opportunities for Diversification In this first installment of the series, I concentrate on three operas—Cabildo (composed 1932, premiered 1945), Der Wald (1902), and Cold Mountain (2015)—by Amy Beach, Ethel
- [Monday Link Round Up: March 19, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-march-19-2018/) - News to start your week! The March 8 concert performed by the BBC Orchestra --Music by five forgotten women -- is available online until April 7! We'd like to invite critical engagement with the music revealed by this important event! We ask readers to submit their reviews (750 to 1500 words) of the concert to
- [Finding Solutions: on the 44th Annual Society for American Music Conference (Intro)](https://wophil.org/finding-solutions-sam-44-conference-intro/) - Timothy Diovanni attended a recent scholarly conference, and came away with much to say about the practical value of what he heard, value in the ongoing discussion over the need to diversify the classical canon. Here is the first of his installments in an engaging and provocative series. Finding Solutions: How the 44th Annual Society for
- [Monday Link Round Up: March 12, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-march-12-2018/) - News to start your week! So much is happening! Last week we celebrated International Women's Day, and it was exciting to see how much attention was paid to women's achievements in classical music: Oxford University Press's blog lists Seven Women you may not know from music history - beginning with Kassia. University of Texas Butler
- [International Women's Day 2018](https://wophil.org/international-womens-day-2018/) - In the past few years the enthusiasm and programming surrounding March 8 has expanded in exciting ways. No doubt due to the response to #MeToo, #TimesUp, and #NeverAgain movements, the plans for this year's International Women's Day have felt even more exciting. The theme this year is #PressforProgress - and there is already plenty of
- [Monday Link Round Up: February 26, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-february-26-2018/) - News to start your week! ArtsBoston put together a list of 10 Contemporary Black Composers You Should Know. Included on the list are Jessie Montgomery, Pamela Z, and Chanda Dancy. Read, listen, and share this important list! Brenda Ravenscroft, Dean at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University, was recognized by the Society for
- [Monday Link Round Up: March 5, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-march-5-2018/) - News to start your week! The Philadelphia Inquirer talks to conductor JoAnn Falletta about her career, and the new (and overdue) attention being given to women in music. Read on here. With the rise of the #MeToo movement more victims of abuse have found the voice and support to come forward. John Treads of the
- [Monday Link Round Up: February 19, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-february-19-2018/) - News to start your week! As more and more ensembles are releasing their 2018-2019 season programming it's been great to read the responses, and calls for change, coming from social media from patrons, academics, and professionals. Don't miss reading Anne Midgette's "The Trouble with Opera" in The Washington Post. We would buy season tickets for
- [Dora Pejačević -- another composer whose time has come?](https://wophil.org/dora-pejacevic-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
- [Monday Link Round Up: February 12, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-february-12-2018/) - News to start your week! It's been amazing to see so many headlines discussing the life and music of Florence Price! Last week we shared the article by Alex Ross published in The New Yorker about the new recording of the recently discovered Violin Concerto. This week the The New York Times also covered the story, and NPR provided
- [Women Composers to Celebrate in 2018-2019](https://wophil.org/women-composers-to-celebrate-in-2018-2019/) - Classical music enthusiasts love to celebrate big years - and we certainly are no exception, as we celebrated Amy Beach’s 150th in 2017. In general we are in favor of any reason to have a party and spend some time immersed in great music. But it is only fair that orchestras spread their attention, and concert
- [Monday Link Round Up: February 5, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-february-5-2018/) - News to start your week! Don't miss Alex Ross's piece on Florence Price in The New Yorker. He speaks of her "rediscovery", a coming premiere, and the attention that her music deserves, also mentioning Amy Beach "Gaelic" Symphony and William Dawson's "Negro Folk Symphony" Important thoughts to add to the ongoing conversations about representation. International Musician
- [Guest Blogger : "Feminist to the Core" offers new strategies for interpreting "La Bohème"](https://wophil.org/laboheme/) - The main focus of "Feminist in the Concert Hall," and in fact our WPA website is to examine and draw attention to music composed by women (especially orchestral music), with the hopes that such works will be performed more often. Thus we seek to expand the canon. In contrast, today's post instead examines a canonic
- [Monday Link Round Up: January 29, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-january-29-2018/) - News to start your week! Very exciting! Congratulations to Jennifer Higdon on winning two Grammy Awards last night! Her Viola Concerto won "Best Contemporary Classical Composition" and she also brought home "Best Classical Compendium" for the recording of All Things Majestic, Viola Concerto, & Oboe Concerto. Read the full list of winners at the New York Times. (and
- [Monday Link Round Up: December 4, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-december-4-2017/) - News to start your week! Our Generosity Campaign is underway! Help us raise funding so that we can continue to make positive impact with our Performance Grants, helping more professional, community, and student ensembles expand their repertoire to include works by women composers! (And grab some fun thank you gifts!) Frank Oteri at NewMusicBox had
- [Curtis on tour features Higdon Viola Concerto!](https://wophil.org/higdon-viola-concerto/) - (3/14/2015) “Curtis On Tour” is the Curtis Institute of Music’s annual showcase of its students and some distinguished alumni. Last year I attended their concert in Boston, and just last night I was thrilled to be able to hear their chamber orchestra at U.C. Davis’s Mondavi Center. The conductor was (Curtis alum) Robert Spano, and a
- [Monday Link Round Up: January 22, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-january-22-2018/) - News to start your week! There have been a number of articles lately about the canon and the so-called "Invisible Hand" that dictates what art is preserved and celebrated. Read Harvard Musicologist Anne Shreffler's thoughts here, and also a response to Shreffler's work by composer Jon Silpayamanant here. The Washington Post profiles Missy Mazzoli, and explore her
- [Monday Link Round Up: January 15, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-january-15-2018/) - News to start your week! Celebrate the life and work of Martin Luther King, Jr. by reflecting on the progress that has been made by trailblazers - like Nkeiru Okoye's opera Harriet Tubman. (Thea Musgrave also turned to the life of Harriet Tubman for an opera: Harriet, the Woman Called Moses.) We can also look to the
- [Monday Link Round Up: January 8, 2018](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-january-8-2018/) - News to start your week! Listening to Ladies is beginning the new year with another episode - this time talking to Elizabeth Baker. Learn more on the website, and listen below. NPR's All Things Considered host Robert Siegel retired last week after 30 years on the radio. NPR has been celebrating his career
- [Group Petitions for more Diversity in  Boston Symphony Orchestra Programming](https://wophil.org/group-petitions-for-more-diversity-in-boston-symphony-orchestra-programming/) - A group of 60 Boston-area musicians has petitioned the Boston Symphony Orchestra for increased diversity in the repertoire presented by the orchestra in their Symphony Hall programming. Women's Philharmonic Advocacy's work is in mentioned in the article in the Boston Globe on the effort, and the BSO's response.
- [Monday Link Round Up: December 18, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-december-18-2017/) - News to start your week! Aaron Gervais at NewMusicBox continues the discussion of inclusivity and diversity as it relates to classical music in a thoughtful piece about how to move forward meaningfully. Lengthy - but important. Read it here. The #MeToo movement is bringing important light to topics that have been relegated to the shadows
- [Monday Link Round Up: December 11, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-december-11-2017/) - News to start your week! The music of Amy Beach was performed at the Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony! The second movement of Beach's Symphony was performed by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Joana Carneiro. Read more about it at the Boston Music Intelligencer. The video of the ceremony is up on
- [A Nobel Honor for Amy Beach](https://wophil.org/nobel-honor-for-amy-beach/) - We are thrilled that the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Joana Carneiro, will be performing second movement, Alla Siciliana of Amy Beach’s “Gaelic” Symphony in E minor, Op. 32 (Women's Philharmonic Advocacy Publications’ revised edition) for the Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony! The Ceremony will take place on Sunday, Dec. 10 at 4:30 P.M. Central European Time (CET, which
- [Announcing WPA Performance Grant Winners!](https://wophil.org/announcing-wpa-performance-grant-winners/) - Congratulations to our latest round of Performance Grant winners! Since establishing Performance Grants in 2012 each cycle has seen a larger number of applicants and a greater diversity of programming. The strongest applications were for plans to perform works by more than one composer, included one historic and one contemporary composer, and exciting outreach. We
- [Monday Link Round Up: November 27, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-november-27-2017/) - News to start your week! In case you missed it - conductor Mariss Jansons made news by saying that women conductors were "not [his] cup of tea". After some significant backlash he later apologized. At the same time, the Dallas Opera's Linda and Mitch Hart Institute for Women Conductors met again for
- [Monday Link Round Up: November 20, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-november-20-2017/) - News to start your week! There have been some particularly excellent pieces to come out of WQXR in! Their list of Eight Classical Era Composers who aren't named Mozart or Haydn includes Maria Teresea Agnesi Pinottini, Princess Anna Amalia, and Marianne Martines. WQXR also included a list of works by Amy Beach in honor of her
- [Monday Link Round Up: November 13, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-november-13-2017/) - News to start your week! Michael Tilson Thomas has announced that he will be retiring from the San Francisco Symphony. The San Francisco Chronicle considers who should be given the post - and the importance of having a music director who values the works of women and people of color. Perhaps the search committee
- [Monday Link Round Up: November 6, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-november-6-2017/) - Lots of news to start your week! Anne Midgette has an important piece in The Washington Post about the difficulties women composers continue to face in having their works heard, and new commissions awarded. (There is funding out there, major orchestras just aren't interested in using it.) Read online here. Ryan Ebright of The New York
- [Monday Link Round Up: October 30, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-october-30-2017/) - News to start your week! Celebrate Halloween with a soundtrack of music by women composers! Check out this fantastic YouTube playlist put together by Music Theory Examples by Women! Composer Lisa Bielawa writes on NewMusicBox about her new serial opera, Vireo. It is a great read about the work's long path between inspiration, development, and
- [Monday Link Round Up: October 23, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-october-23-2017/) - News to start your week! Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble celebrated women composers this past weekend in a concert titled "Music She Wrote". The concert included works by Jennifer Higdon and Libby Larsen. New Hampshire Public Radio has the story - read - and listen to the broadcast version - online. Join the Women Composers
- [Symphony Number One Comes Home this Weekend](https://wophil.org/symphony-number-one-comes-home-this-weekend/) - This weekend Symphony Number One will present the world premiere of a new work by Carolyn Chen. The concert, titled "Coming Home", will take place at the Baltimore War Memorial - the site of the inaugural concert by the ensemble in 2015. The events this weekend, with concerts on October 21 and 22, will include
- [GRANT UPDATE -- deadline extended!](https://wophil.org/grant-update-deadline-exteneded/) - GRANT UPDATE — we are having problems with our online form (which is down at the moment) — and we are extending our deadline to OCT. 27.
- [Monday Link Round Up: October 16, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-october-16-2017/) - News to start your week: We are excited to hear about a new series from University of Michigan Press focusing on music and social justice. Read about the new series, and the wonderfully diverse advisory board, at Musicology Now or at the University of Michigan Press. New Music Box speaks with composer Stefania de Kenessey and
- [Old and New This Weekend](https://wophil.org/old-and-new-this-weekend/) - More great concerts this weekend - in California by the Bay Area Rainbow Symphony, in Maryland by the Susquehanna Symphony, and in Colorado by the Chamber Orchestra of the Springs. The Bay Area Rainbow Symphony, directed by Dawn Harms, will be including Amy Beach's Symphony in E minor (Gaelic) in a program that will
- [Monday Link Round Up: October 9, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-october-9-2017/) - News to start your week! Cuban composer Tania León is writing an opera about the Little Rock Nine - the first African American students to integrate Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas in 1957. NBC News included a story on the coming opera September 25, before the work was presented in previews. The New
- [Great Works This Weekend](https://wophil.org/weekend_concerts/) - There are great concerts to look forward to this weekend from several WPA Performance Grant winners! The Denver Young Artists Orchestra will be hosting a Women in Music Symposium at the Lamont School of Music on October 7 & 8. There will be concerts, conversations, and discussions about the history and continuing challenges facing
- [Monday Link Round Up: October 2, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-october-2-2017/) - News to start your week! It was great to see an article in the Huffington Post about Orchestra Moderne - a new ensemble based in NYC led by conductor Amy Andersson. The ensemble is committed to performing a diverse range of works, especially focusing on works by women and people of color. Their inaugural concert, on
- [Discussion on NPR](https://wophil.org/discussion-on-npr/) - In honor of the Thanksgiving holiday, NPR music commentator Miles Hoffman did a report on musical families for Morning Edition. The light piece, lasting about seven minutes, discussed the work of a few of the best known (or “most likely to be known”) women that were connected to the now seemingly legendary men. Among the
- [US Premiere of Gubaidulina Second Violin Concerto](https://wophil.org/us-premiere-of-gubaidulina-second-violin-concerto/) - The San Francisco Symphony just hosted Sofia Gubaidulina in its inaugural Phyllis C. Wattis composer-in-residency. The two week residency, which ended on February 27th, was created in honor of a former SFS board member and philanthropist in the Bay Area. (More information about the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation can be found here.) The SFS performed
- [Monday Link Round Up: September 25, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-september-25-2017/) - News to start your week! The WQXR blog talks with JoAnn Falletta, conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic and Virginia Symphony, about why it seems that professional orchestras actually play behind the conducted beat. Read more here. In more conducting news, NPR's Scott Simon sat in on a conducting class at The Peabody Institute taught by
- [Monday Link Round Up: September 11, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-september-11-2017/) - News to start your week! NewMusicBox has an interview with American composer George Walker, who is still composing at 95. Learn more about his life and compositions on the NewMusicBox website, and through the video below: Also this week on NewMusicBox, Shi-An Costello discusses Orientalism in American Classical Music - a great piece to raise
- [Monday Link Round Up: September 18, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-september-18-2017/) - News to start your week! This past weekend academics, performers, and music enthusiasts gathered at the University of New Hampshire to remember the lives and work of Amy Beach and Teresa Carreño. The Eagle Tribune wrote about the conference, and specifically wrote about Beach's life and music. Great to read about WPA Grant Winner Chicago Sinfonietta
- [Stockton Symphony Plays Thea Musgrave](https://wophil.org/stockton-symphony-plays-thea-musgrave/) - The Stockton Symphony is opening their 2017-2018 season on Saturday, September 23 with a great, and inclusive, program. In addition to Tchaikovsky Brahms, and Berlioz, conductor Peter Jaffe has chosen to include Rainbow (1990) by Thea Musgrave. Musgrave, who will be celebrating her 90th birthday in May, 2018, was born in Scotland but has lived and worked in
- [2017-18 Season: By the Numbers](https://wophil.org/2017-18-season-by-the-numbers/) - Now that Labor Day, and the end of summer, has passed we are looking forward to the start of the 2017-18 concert season - and taking a critical look at what we can expect in the coming programming. We at WPA have been looking at the repertoire of major ensembles for a long time, and
- [September 5, AMY BEACH DAY](https://wophil.org/amy-beach-day/) - "I, Martin J. Walsh, Mayor of Boston, do hereby declare September 5, 2017 to be: Amy Beach Day in the City of Boston. I urge all my fellow Bostonians to join me in recognizing and honoring Amy Beach as one of the most successful American composers."
- [HAPPY 150th BIRTHDAY, AMY BEACH!!](https://wophil.org/happy-150th-birthday-amy-beach/) - As this year marks Amy Beach’s 150th birthday, much is being done in celebration about this remarkable woman’s life and work! Numerous orchestras, choral ensembles, chamber ensembles and soloists around the world have performed or will be performing works by the pioneering American composer/pianist this year and next in celebration. There are new recordings available
- [Monday Link Round Up: September 4, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-september-4-2017/) - News to start your week - or to enjoy on Labor Day! The New York Times profiles the life and work of Amy Beach in honor of her 150th birthday, coming on September 5. William Robbin interviewed WPA President Liane Curtis for the piece. Don't miss it here. Be sure to also stay informed of
- [Celebrating Amy Beach -- and thoughts on her reception](https://wophil.org/celebrating-amy-beach/) - While there is A LOT going on with women composers and classical music, it is nice to focus -- for a few days -- on the great achievements of Amy Beach​, who is recognized in this important article! Our thanks to journalist and public musicologist William Robin! And, on Tues. Sept. 5, Happy Birthday, Amy!
- [Monday Link Round Up: August 28, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-august-28-2017/) - News to start your week! WQXR had a blog post this week highlighting historical figures who also wrote music. Included in their list is Catherine the Great - though she was a librettist, not a composer. What a shame to not include at least a few other female historical figures who composed, like: Anne Boleyn;
- [Death of Rae Linda Brown, pioneering Florence Price Scholar](https://wophil.org/rae-linda-brown/) - With great sadness, Women's Philharmonic Advocacy mourns the passing of Dr. Rae Linda Brown, who died following a brief illness of sarcoma (a rare cancer of the connective tissue). A musicologist, professor, university administrator, and past President of the Society for American Music, we remember Dr. Brown especially for her groundbreaking scholarship on composer Florence Price.
- [Monday Link Round Up: August 21, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-august-21-2017/) - News to start your week! There are important conversations as a result of Charlottesville happening across disciplines. One thought provoking discussion about the problems with a Eurocentric approach to music history and music theory is made by musicologist Ethen Hein. Read on here. The Library of Congress has announced their 2017-2018 season of concerts -
- [Composers You Should Know: Undine Smith Moore](https://wophil.org/composers-you-should-know-undine-smith-moore/) - This week we remember the life and music of American composer and educator Undine Smith Moore (1904-1989). Born in Jarratt, Virginia the granddaughter of slaves, she began to study piano at age seven. After attending Fisk University she attended Juilliard on scholarship. Her first career was in music education, as supervisor of music for the Goldsboro,
- [Featured Guest Blogger: Germaine Tailleferre’s Malicious Men](https://wophil.org/featured-guest-blogger-germaine-tailleferres-malicious-men/) - We are happy to welcome guest blogger Timothy Diovanni! An undergraduate student in musicology at Columbia University, he is also a clarinetist. He writes extensively about New York City's music scene as a columnist at The Columbia Lion and he has his own blog, howeyehearit.wordpress.com. His fascinating essay on Germaine Tailleferre brings us rich insights
- [Monday Link Round Up: August 14, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-august-14-2017/) - News to start your week! The Women Composers Festival of Hartford has announced the 2018 featured artists! This year's festival will include Tawnie Olson as composer in residence and Cuatro Puntos String Quartet as ensemble in residence. Dr. Karen Cook will be keynote speaker. Learn more at the WCFH website - including more information
- [Monday Link Round Up: August 7, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-august-7-2017/) - News to start the week! Anne Midgette of The Washington Post has responded to NPR's list of top 150 albums by women and compiled a list of the top 35 women composers. It's hard to argue with any of her choices, though the list is rather biased on contemporary voices. Read the list here. WQXR
- [Contemporary Women at Cabrillo](https://wophil.org/contemporary-women-at-cabrillo/) - The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music has celebrated new music for 55 years - performing, commissioning, and advocating for the works of the greatest living composers, as well as creating opportunities for young composers to have their works heard. After decades of dedicated leadership, Marin Alsop has handed the reigns of the Festival to Cristian Macelaru,
- [Composers You Should Know: Pauline Hall](https://wophil.org/pauline_hall/) - This week we recognize the work of Norwegian writer, music critic, social activist, and composer Pauline Hall (1890-1969). She studied in Oslo and later in Paris. Hall was known for her harsh criticism of dilettantism and her advocacy for modern music. She made her compositional debut in 1917 in Oslo with a concert comprised entirely of
- [Monday Link Round Up: July 31, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-july-31-2017/) - News to start your week! Don't miss the latest podcast from Listening to Ladies! Host Elizabeth Blair has a conversation with composer Aftab Darvishi. And don't forget to subscribe, support, and spread the word about this fantastic project! This past week the New York Philharmonic premiered the second commissioned work from Julia Adolphe.
- [Recognition for Community Women's Orchestra](https://wophil.org/recognition-for-community-womens-orchestra/) - Congratulations to the Community Women's Orchestra in Oakland, CA for winning the 2017 Kris Sinclair Leadership Award from the Association of California Symphony Orchestras! The Community Women's Orchestra is a volunteer all-woman ensemble that was founded as an offshoot of The Women's Philharmonic. Over the past 20 years the ensemble has grown, developed, and thrived
- [Monday Link Round Up: July 24, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-july-24-2017/) - News to start your week! BBC Radio 4's "Behind the Scenes" looks at Lithuanian conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla's work during her first year as Music Director of the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Listen online here. Conductor Amy Andersson is organizing a new ensemble, Orchestra Moderne NYC. The inaugural concert will happen in October at Carnegie Hall. The
- [Composers You Should Know: Pauline Viardot](https://wophil.org/composers-you-should-know-pauline-viardot/) - This week we remember the life and work of Pauline Viardot (1821-1910). A French composer, educator, and mezzo-soprano of Spanish descent, Viardot had an extensive performing and compositional career beginning at a young age. Lucky enough to find family support in her talents, her first music teachers were her parents who were both professional musicians.
- [Composers You Should Know: Peggy Stuart Coolidge](https://wophil.org/composers-you-should-know-peggy-stuart-coolidge/) - This week marks the 104th birthday of American composer and conductor Peggy Stuart Coolidge (1913-1981). She began her career as a concert pianist, but turned to composition when a student at the New England Conservatory. Though her early works are for piano, most of her compositions are for orchestra, including many tone poems, works for
- [Peggy Stuart Coolidge in Boston](https://wophil.org/peggy-stuart-coolidge-in-boston/) - This coming Wednesday the Boston Landmarks Orchestra will be kicking off the summer concert season at the DCR Hatch Memorial Shell. Their concert on July 19, titled Music for a Summer Evening, will include works by Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Delius, Barber, Verdi - and American composer Peggy Stuart Coolidge. Stuart Coolidge's The Blue Planet, for narrator and
- [Monday Link Round Up: July 17, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-july-17-2017/) - News to start your week! In the ongoing discussion about inclusiveness and diversity, Anne Lanzilotti interviews composer and scholar Tara Rodgers about her music and work, including her book, Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound. The conversation includes the need not only for more representation in concert halls, but also in classroom curriculums. Read
- [Monday Link Round Up: July 10, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-july-10-2017/) - News to start your week! In international news, The Times of India profiles two young women who are making a name for themselves in a particularly male dominated field. Read more about Feviola Fernandes and Delcy Silveira here. The Conversation explores the continued inequalities in the field of Jazz. Though the article focuses primarily on the opportunities available
- [Monday Link Round Up: July 3, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-july-3-2017/) - News to start your week! We mentioned the new opera, Vireo, by Lisa Bielawa being released online the other week. The episodic serial work will be released online and on KCET - and episode 1 is now available to view online! The Hart Institute for Women Conductors through the Dallas Opera Company has announced the next
- [Composers You Should Know: Liza Lehmann](https://wophil.org/liza-lehmann/) - This week we are remembering the life and work of British composer and soprano Liza Lehmann (1862-1918). Born into a privileged family, Lehmann was given the opportunity to study music from a very early age in voice and composition. Her teachers included Hamish MacCunn and Jenny Lind. After a decade long concert career Lehmann
- [Composers You Should Know: Nancy Dalberg](https://wophil.org/composers-you-should-know-nancy-dalberg/) - July 6 marks the 136th birthday of Danish composer Nancy Dalberg (1881-1949). Dalberg was a student of Johan Svendsen and Carl Nielsen. As part of her training with Nielsen, Dalberg was challenged to experiment with orchestration - which led to Nielsen and Dalberg working closely together, including Dalberg helping to orchestrate works for Nielsen
- [FSYO Honoring Women in European Tour](https://wophil.org/fsyo-honoring-women-in-european-tour/) - The Florida Symphony Youth Orchestra has a 60 year tradition of educating, nurturing, and inspiring young musicians. In recent years we at WPA have been delighted to support their mission in part with our Performance Grants, offering more opportunities for the students to become familiar with the diversity that exists in the canon of western
- [Composers You Should Know: Ruth Schönthal](https://wophil.org/composers-you-should-know-ruth-schonthal/) - This week we are honoring the life and music of German composer, pianist, and educator Ruth Schönthal (1924-2006). Born in Hamburg, she demonstrated an early talent and became the young student ever accepted to the Stern’sches Konservatorium in Berlin at age five. After being forced to leave Nazi Germany in 1935 due to her Jewish heritage,
- [Monday Link Round Up: June 26, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-june-26-2017/) - News to start your week! The Music Critics Association of North America has named composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek's new opera, Breaking the Waves, the first winner of a new award for Best New Opera in North America. Read more at Classical Voice North America. Congratulations to Lidiya Yankovskaya who was just named the
- [Monday Link Round Up: June 19, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-june-19-2017/) - News to start your week! Opera5, a Canadian opera company which is based in Toronto, will be presenting two works by Ethel Smyth - Fête Galante and The Boatswain's Mate - June 22 through the 25th. Smyth is remembered for her work as a suffragette as well as her work as a composer, and her political
- [Composers You Should Know: Ruth Shaw Wylie](https://wophil.org/composers-you-should-know-ruth-shaw-wylie/) - Saturday, June 24, is the 101st birthday of American composer and music educator Ruth Shaw Wylie (1916-1989). Born in Ohio, Wylie grew up in Detroit and considered herself to be, “a fairly typical Midwestern composer”. After earning her PhD in composition at Eastman School of Music she taught composition and music theory at the
- [Celebrating Pride in San Francisco](https://wophil.org/bars/) - June is LGBTQ Pride Month, and what better way to celebrate than with an excellent concert from an important community organization? The Bay Area Rainbow Symphony, a non-profit organization in San Francisco dedicated to "promoting and supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer identified (LGBTQ) musicians and composers toward the goal of broad crossover appeal and
- [Monday Link Round Up: June 12, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-june-12-2017/) - News to start your week! Melanie Zeck, music librarian and historian at the Center for Black Music Research in Chicago, writes fro The Francisco Chronicle exploring the music of the African diaspora. Learn more about William Grant Still, Joseph Bologne ("Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges"), Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and others. Read on about the music preserved by
- [Composers You Should Know: Galina Ustvolskaya](https://wophil.org/composers-you-should-know-galina-ustvolskaya/) - Saturday, June 17, would have been the 98th birthday of Russian composer Galina Ustvolskaya (1919-2006). Ustvolskaya studied at the Leningrad Conservatory and was a pupil of Shostakovich who was a champion for her works, even though her style evolved to be distinctly different from her mentor’s. As a developing composer she had few opportunities to
- [The Dream Unfinished Continues the Conversation](https://wophil.org/the-dream-unfinished-continues-the-conversation/) - We've been following the work of The Dream Unfinished since it was first organized as an activist orchestra in conjunction with the Black Lives Matter movement. Since their first concert this ensemble has worked to use their voices to raise awareness to issues of social justice, as well as bring to light composers whose works
- [Monday Link Round Up: June 5, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-june-5-2017/) - News to start your week! The New York Times discusses the work of Meredith Monk - and the challenges in learning her music. The vocal ensemble M6 will be reviving some Monk's less performed older works this week. Lisa Bielawa has created a new opera, Vireo: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch's Accuser, which will be released
- [CD Review: Ruth Lomon, Shadowing](https://wophil.org/ruth-lomon-shadowing/) - While we rarely publish CD reviews on our blog, we decided it was important to give coverage to a recent CD by composer Ruth Lomon. Ruth's music ranges from expressive and lyrical to electrifyingly engaging. But not only that, Ruth has always been seriously dedicated to promoting the work of other women composers, through projects
- [Willamette Falls Plays Wittry](https://wophil.org/willamette-falls-plays-wittry/) - This Sunday, June 4, the Willamette Falls Symphony in Oregon City, Oregon will perform Mist by Diane Wittry. The ensemble, which is lead by Dr. Mark Perlman, is a nonprofit community orchestra, and we are delighted to support this performance with a WPA Performance Grant. Wittry is primarily recognized internationally as conductor and clinician, guiding young composers
- [Composers You Should Know: Louise Farrenc](https://wophil.org/louise-farrenc-2/) - Today (May 31) is the 213th birthday of composer, educator, and virtuosic pianist Louise Farrenc (1804-1875). A celebrated composer in her time, she was the student of Muzio Clementi and Anton Reicha. She had tremendous support of her family, which led to an extensive touring career, an appointment of Professor of Piano at the Paris Conservatory (where
- [Proms 2017 - By the Numbers](https://wophil.org/proms-2017-by-the-numbers/) - It’s once again Proms Season! And that means it’s time once again to look at representation. There have already been conversations about certain lacking aspects - not only the lack of women composers, but the overall lack of representation of people (including conductors) of color. (See more at On an Overgrown Path: http://www.overgrownpath.com/2017/05/is-one-of-these-next-mirga-grazinyte.html) But here
- [Monday Link Round Up: May 29, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-may-29-2017/) - Happy Memorial Day to those who observe! Here is some news to start your week! Lisa Caplan, a PhD candidate in American Studies and Afro-American Studies at Yale has a great contribution to The New Yorker about the need for more diversity in opera productions - as well as what is being done about it. Learn
- [Monday Link Round Up: May 22, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-may-22-2017/) - News to start your week! The New York Times remembers the life and work of electronic composer Maryanne Amacher, who died in 2009. Her studies with Stockhausen helped shape her unique approach and sound - and led her to fantastic collaborations, including with John Cage, but few authorized recordings of her works. Read more here.
- [Monday Link Round Up: April 24, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-april-24-2017/) - News to start your week! We celebrated Dame Ethel Smyth's birthday this weekend! Don't miss the guest blog by Dr. Amy Ziegler and the new recording of Symth's work. The BBC.com Culture column recognized the life and work of composer, conductor, and music educator Nadia Boulanger. Be sure to read the article, titled The Greatest Music
- [New Works this Weekend](https://wophil.org/new-works-this-weekend-2/) - There are lots of opportunities to hear works by contemporary women composers this weekend, and throughout the coming week! On Sunday, May 21 the Community Women's Orchestra in Oakland, California will present Forbidden Voices, including June Bonacich's Sorrow is a Willow Tree and a selection from Street Requiem, an enormous and internationally performed work composed by Kathleen
- [Monday Link Round Up: May 15, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-may-15-2017/) - News to start your week! In honor of Mother's Day, WQXR shared some conversations about music and motherhood with four highly accomplished professional musicians. Catch it here! And, along the same lines, it's a perfect time to re-read Emily Doolittle's piece for NewMusicBox about composing and motherhood. The topic of representation in music continues to
- [Monday Link Roundup: March 27, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-roundup-march-27-2017/) - News to start your week! This year, 2017, is an important celebration year for Amy Beach and Teresa Carreño. A conference is being organized to celebrate their lives and works, and the conference organizers are seeking calls for papers and for performances. Scholarly works, as well as lecture-recitals, that discuss the role of American (North, Central,
- [Honoring Women's Work](https://wophil.org/honoring-womens-work-2/) - As March, and Women's History Month, quickly comes to a close, there are still great opportunities to support women's work in music in concerts across the country! The Women Composers Festival of Hartford (Connecticut) will hold their annual event this year from March 30-April 2. This year the Festival will host Paula Matthusen as Composer-In-Residence with
- [Call For Scores Roundup!](https://wophil.org/call-for-scores-roundup/) - March proved to be an excellent month for hearing a wide range of works by women composers - contemporary and historic! We are excited to keep the momentum going throughout the rest of the year, and with so many opportunities for calls for scores, we can look forward to more great concerts to come! We
- [Elizabeth Wood Inspires Hartford Festival](https://wophil.org/liz-wood-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
- [Congratulations to WPA Performance Grant Winners!](https://wophil.org/congratulations-to-wpa-performance-grant-winners/) - Since establishing our Performance Grants in 2012 we have been delighted with the ever growing enthusiasm and innovativeness of each application. As we continue to reach out to new ensembles, the WPA Board of Directors agreed last year to begin offering the grants twice annually (Spring and Fall) to best suit the programming needs of
- [Monday Link Round Up: April 17, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-april-17-2017/) - News to start your week! Congratulations to Du Yun for winning the Pulitzer Prize in Music for her opera Angel's Bone! Read the story at NPR or NewMusicBox - which interviewed the composer about her work in 2014. Watch part of the interview below: It is also notable that for the first time in history all three
- [New (and Remembered) Works](https://wophil.org/new-and-remembered-works-this-weekend/) - More great concerts - and very different concert experiences - to enjoy this weekend! The Moravian College Choir, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, is presenting the premiere of a new edition of Amy Beach's Mass on April 29. The work, composed when Beach was only 19, is believed to be the first Mass composed by an American woman.
- [Monday Link Round Up: May 1, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-may-1-2017/) - News to start your week! NewMusicBox has a fantastic piece by composer Emily Doolittle about composing fits into motherhood. A hugely important - and not often discussed - topic. Doolittle's article brings great insight and context into this issue. It's a must read for everyone! Find it here! Composer and columnist Mohammed Fairouz shares insights at
- [Amy Beach and Debra Kaye](https://wophil.org/amy-beach-and-debra-kaye/) - Last week audiences in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania were treated to a new edition of Amy Beach's Mass. This weekend there are two opportunities to enjoy Beach's Symphony - a great way to continue the celebrations of her sesquicentennial! The first opportunity is on Saturday, May 6, the Westminster Community Orchestra in Princeton, NJ, will perform Beach's Gaelic Symphony under the baton
- [Monday Link Round Up: May 8, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-may-8-2017/) - News to start your week! Tom Huizenga at NPR's Deceptive Cadence continues the conversation about representation with Pulitzer Prize winning composer Du Yun, and follows up on the essay written by Mohammed Fairouz (included in last week's round up). Read the full piece by Huizenga here. On An Overgrown Path discusses the importance
- [Happy Birthday, Dame Ethel Smyth! Celebrating a New Recording](https://wophil.org/happy-birthday-dame-ethel-smyth-celebrating-a-new-recording/) - Featured Guest Blogger: Dr. Amy Zigler In celebration of Dame Ethel Smyth's 159th birthday, we present a detailed review of the first ever recording of Smyth's opera The Boatswain’s Mate, which was released last fall by Retrospect Opera. Dr. Amy Zigler is a noted authority on Smyth (and Assistant Professor of Music at Salem College)
- [Representation in the Classroom](https://wophil.org/representation-in-the-classroom/) - Representation matters. In recordings, in publications, in performance halls, and in classrooms. We were thrilled to learn about a new project to encourage more discussion and exploration of works by women in classrooms through music theory curriculum. The project and website, titled Music Theory Examples by Women, is a comprehensive and thoughtful resource to make
- [Monday Link Round Up: April 10, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-april-10-2017/) - News to start your week! The Women Composers Festival of Hartford had another great event this year - and are already looking to the future! Composers and and Performers are invited to apply to be artists in residence for the 2018 Festival! Find out more information here. Following up on the great 2017 event, we
- [Monday Link Round Up: February 20, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-february-20-2017/) - News to start your week! NPR covered the story of a high school outside of St. Paul, Minnesota which is dedicated to diverse repertoire for the band program. The directors are committed to programming works by women and people of color. Read the fantastic story here, or listen below. We applaud their great work! (And,
- [Monday Link Roundup: April 3, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-roundup-april-3-2017/) - News to start your week! Bang on a Can is preparing a marathon in honor of their 30th anniversary! The ensemble, which boasts Pulitzer Prize winner Julia Wolfe as a co-founder, will host the concert on May 6 at the Brooklyn Museum. Featured composers will include Julia Wolfe, Meredith Monk, Caroline Shaw, and many others!
- [Works by Women this Weekend](https://wophil.org/works-by-women-this-weekend-2/) - There's something for everyone with this weekend's range of concerts happening across the country! In Chicago the Chicago Sinfonietta offers a concert called More Than a Letter: A Celebration of LGBTQ Artists and Classical Music on March 25 & 27. The program will include Jennifer Higdon's Peachtree Street. The concert will also feature guest conductor Michael Morgan and Guest
- [Monday Link Round Up: March 20, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-march-20-2017/) - News to start your week! We were just made aware of Gramophone's contribution in honor of International Women's Day. They've compiled a list of historic female composers that are worth listening to and - perhaps most notably - have decent recordings available. This highlights an important issue of the lack of representation of works by women
- [Works by Women this Weekend](https://wophil.org/works-by-women-this-weekend/) - It's another full weekend of concerts featuring the works of historic and contemporary women composers - from coast to coast! We are proud to have been able to support both of these organizations through WPA Performance Grants. On the East Coast the National String Symphonia, based in Frederick MD, is presenting a concert on March
- [Monday Link Round Up: March 13, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-march-13-2017/) - News to start your week! In line with the conversations that have been taking place in honor of Women's History Month and International Women's Day, The Guardian has a fantastic op-ed by Susanna Eastburn, head of Scotland's Sound and Music, about why women are worthy of inclusion. She argues, it's not about Tokenism - it's about Talent. Read on
- [Rarely Heard Work in San Francisco this Weekend](https://wophil.org/rarely-heard-work-in-san-francisco-this-weekend/) - The Bay Area Rainbow Symphony is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to promoting and supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer identified (LGBTQ) musicians and composers toward the goal of broad crossover appeal and excellence in the performing arts. BARS is synonymous with excellence and distinction in the performing arts and community building. The BARS commitment
- [International Women's Day](https://wophil.org/international-womens-day/) - We hope that you are able to participate in International Women's Day and #DayWithoutAWoman in whatever way you can. Stay home. Wear red. And tune in to the different radio stations that are making it a point to include works by women composers throughout today. Second Inversion has committed to playing 24 hours of
- [Women's History Month](https://wophil.org/womens-history-month/) - Women's work should always be recognized and celebrated - but we will take any opportunity to pay special attention to the achievements women have made, and continue to make in every field. At Women's Philharmonic Advocacy we encourage everyone to make a special effort during Women's History Month to be more educated about and supportive
- [Concerts this weekend](https://wophil.org/concerts-this-weekend/) - This weekend boasts a lot of great concerts and opportunities to support women's work in music - contemporary and historic! There are two opportunities to hear Amy Beach's historic Symphony this weekend. If you happen to be in London, England this weekend Harmony Sinfonia, a London based ensemble, will be performing work on March 4, along with
- [Monday Link Round Up: March 6, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-march-6-2017/) - News to start your week! The Guardian has reviews of two new CDs of works by women. The first are works for piano and orchestra, including the Amy Beach Concerto, Dorothy Howell's D Minor Concerto, and Cécile Chaminade's Konzertstück. Read the review here. There is also a new recording by pianist Diane Ambache featuring the chamber works of Grażyna
- [AMY Award to be presented to Community Women’s Orchestra](https://wophil.org/amy-award-to-be-presented-to-community-womens-orchestra/) - Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy will present the prestigious AMY award to the Community Women’s Orchestra of Oakland, CA, at their concert this Sunday (May 17). Celebrating their 30th anniversary, CWO has included works by one or more women on all their programs since their inception. The award, which consists of a beautiful sculpture (by artist Rita Blitt)
- [More on the Presentation of the AMY Award](https://wophil.org/more-on-the-presentation-of-the-amy-award/) - It took place a week ago—the presentation of the first ever AMY Award—and what a thrill it was. I was so honored to give the award before the full orchestra (the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra), and the near-capacity audience (almost 2400, including the 500 violists in attendance for the International Viola Congress). It took place just after intermission—the
- [RPO Honored with AMY Award](https://wophil.org/rpo-honored-with-amy-award/) - Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy was delighted to award the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Arild Remmereit with the first ever AMY Award for Excellence in Orchestral Programming. We have kept up with the RPO over the 2011-2012 season. During his first season with the ensemble, Remmereit set a wonderful precedent by programming eight works by historic
- [New Work by Libby Larsen performed by North State Symphony](https://wophil.org/libby-larsen-north-state-symphony/) - Last night (Feb. 24) in Chico, CA, the North State Symphony gave an enthralling area premiere of a new work by composer Libby Larsen. Dancing Man Rhapsody was written for violinist Terri Baune (Concertmaster of the North State Symphony) and commissioned by the NSS together with several other California orchestras. Baune was the Concertmaster of
- [Monday Link Round Up: February 27, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-february-27-2017/) - News to start your week! The Oscars happened Sunday night - and Mica Levi was nominated for best film score for Jackie. In recognition of her nomination, The New Yorker has a profile of the musician and composer. Also in The New Yorker, Alex Ross explores Kate Soper's new work and "philosophy-opera" Ipsa Dexit which was recently presented
- [Recent book (and CDs) feature composer Marie Jaëll (1846-1925)](https://wophil.org/recent-book-and-cds-feature-composer-marie-jaell-1846-1925/) - The French musical world had a large number of notable women composers in the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries, as Florence Launay has pointed out. Augusta Holmès, Cécile Chaminade, and Lili Boulanger come to mind in particular. Now a detailed study has brought to light one more: Marie Jaëll (1846-1925). If her name sounds familiar,
- [New Music Festival dedicated to Pauline Oliveros](https://wophil.org/new-music-festival-dedicated-to-pauline-oliveros/) - 16th Annual Festival of New Music at California State University, Fullerton - Feb. 22-26 “To the Ends of the Earth: Music from Iceland to Australia and Beyond” This year's festival is dedicated in loving memory of Pauline Oliveros, founding composer-in-residence. The Festival features Composer-in-Residence Annie Gosfield, whose music is often inspired by the inherent beauty of found
- [CSUF New Music Festival](https://wophil.org/csuf-new-music-festival/) - Today marks the beginning of the 16th annual California State University - Fullerton New Music Festival. The five day event is always an amazing opportunity to engage with a huge range of new music. This year's festival is titled "To the ends of the earth: Music from Iceland to Australia and Beyond" and is dedicated
- [New Music this Weekend](https://wophil.org/new-music-this-weekend-2/) - More great music is happening this weekend, and we are thrilled to be able to support both the North/South Chamber Orchestra and the Willamette Falls Symphony with Performance Grants for their outstanding work! On Sunday, February 19, both ensembles will hold concerts featuring new music The North/South Chamber Orchestra is holding their Midwinter Fest concert in New
- [Monday Link Round Up: February 13, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-february-13-2017/) - News to start your week! Helen Grime, who is currently serving as the Wigmore Hall Composer in Residence, spoke with The Guardian about what she likes, and loves, about music. And stay tuned for more information about the March 3 premiere of her new Piano Concerto. The Smithsonian Magazine has a fantastic article on Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield
- [Monday Link Round Up: January 30, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-january-30-2017/) - News to start your week: BBC Radio 3 has commissioned a new work from composer Kate Whitley. The project, which is set to be premiered on International Women's Day, will set the text of Malala Yousafzai's 2013 UN speech to music. Learn more about this work, and other programming on International Women's Day, at The Guardian.
- [Monday Link Round Up: February 6, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-february-6-2017/) - News to start your week! PBS Newshour addressed the continuing obstacles facing women as conductors - specifically highlighting the Dallas Opera Conducting Institute. Read the transcript of the piece on the website, or watch the segment below: We have mentioned the fantastic podcast Listening To Ladies many times already (and will continue to in the
- [Celebrating the Music of China with Intersection](https://wophil.org/celebrating-the-music-of-china-with-intersection/) - Intersection is a contemporary music ensemble founded by Kelly Corcoran, who conducts the ensemble. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, the group strives to educate and challenge audiences as to what a classical music experience can be. It is especially notable that this contemporary musical ensemble specifically strives to engage with young audiences, introducing contemporary music in
- [Black History Month at WPA](https://wophil.org/black-history-month-at-wpa/) - We at WPA are embracing Black History Month as a challenge to learn about and listen to more works by Black women composers. The Hildegard Publishing Company has compiled a fantastic list of works that they publish by contemporary and historic Black women composers. It is a perfect resource for singers and pianists to expand
- [Monday Link Round Up: January 23, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-january-23-2017/) - News to start your week! The arts community as a whole has much to be concerned about with the new administration. The writers and musicians at NewMusicBox have decided to start the conversation about concerns, and what can be done about them, with their new series titled "Speak Out." (More explanation on the idea and
- [Music for the Women's March on Washington](https://wophil.org/music-for-the-womens-march-on-washington/) - On Saturday January 21 activists and allies will be meeting in Washington, D.C. for the Women's March on Washington, in addition to over 600 sister marches that have sprung up throughout the world in solidarity. The mission and vision of the Women's March on Washington is simple and clear: We stand together in solidarity with
- [Concerts of Old and New Music](https://wophil.org/concerts-of-old-and-new-music/) - We're always thrilled to share announcements of coming concerts featuring works by women composers! This week we are especially thrilled to see two ensembles who are embracing contemporary and historic composers in their performances. The Mount Holyoke Symphony Orchestra will be performing at an Alumni Even in Chicago on January 21 and at the college
- [Monday Link Round Up: January 16, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-january-16-2017/) - News to start your week! Today is the last day to donate to our Generosity.com campaign! Please give what you can and help make the campaign as impactful as possible in funding grants to ensembles who wish to play more diverse repertoire! Learn more below, and give here! Don't miss the sixth episode of Listening
- [Thank You to Our Donors!](https://wophil.org/thank-you-to-our-donors/) - Thank you to all of the donors to our Generosity campaign! We have made progress in raising funds necessary to offer our Performance Grants again in 2017 - but this amazing program could use more support! Our Generosity Campaign is ending on Tuesday, January 17, and we would love to raise an additional $2,500 between
- [A Great Start to the New Year](https://wophil.org/a-great-start-to-the-new-year/) - We are excited to spread the word on great concerts featuring women composers in the coming days from winners of WPA Performance Grants! We are especially excited that these two ensembles are giving voice to historic composers who are no longer able to advocate for their own works. The Chamber Orchestra of the Springs, based in Colorado
- [Monday Link Round Up: January 9, 2017](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-january-9-2017/) - News to start your week! ICYMI Listening to Ladies has partnered with Vent Nouveau for a Call for Scores for all composers who identify as women. The deadline is approaching fast (January 15) - so don't wait to submit! Find out all of the submission information and requirements at the Listening to Ladies website.
- [WPA Now on iTunes!](https://wophil.org/wpa-now-on-itunes/) - We debuted the new WPA Podcast last year with conversations about Kaija Saariaho's premiere at the Met. We are now thrilled to announce that our podcast is now available through iTunes! Subscribe to "Feminist in the Concert Hall" in iTunes to make sure you don't miss the next episode! And help spread the word about
- [Podcast Episode 02: "It's about friggin' time!" -- Met Opera performs work composed by a woman](https://wophil.org/podcast-episode-02/) - Happy New Year! Without a doubt, one of 2016’s most exciting music events was the performance of Kaija Saariaho’s “L’Amour de Loin” at New York’s Metropolitan Opera. Our very first podcast offered some insiders’ ideas about the production. Now, in our second podcast, composer Milica Paranosic goes “on the scene” at Lincoln Center (at the
- [Call for Papers & Call for Scores](https://wophil.org/call-for-papers-call-for-scores/) - We are excited to share two opportunities for scholars and composers to present and promote their work! Listening to Ladies, which has an outstanding podcast that showcases the work of contemporary women composers, has partnered with the contemporary ensemble Vent Nouveau to announce a Call For Scores for all composers who identify as women. The works
- [Featured Guest Blog: Louise Talma (Part III!)](https://wophil.org/featured-guest-blog-louise-talma-part-iii/) - Featured Guest Blogger: Kendra Preston Leonard Today we feature the third installment in our Featured Guest Blogger series, again focusing on the work of Kendra Preston Leonard and her new book on Lousie Talma. Leonard is a musicologist whose work focuses on women and music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; music and screen history, and
- [Hannah Lash in New Haven](https://wophil.org/hannah-lash-in-new-haven/) - The New Haven Symphony Orchestra will be performing the second movement of a new work by Hannah Lash this Thursday (May 19), which is supported in part by a WPA Performance Grant. As composer in residence for the NHSO, Lash is composing a symphony inspired by the Voynich Manuscript, which is held at the Yale
- [Monday Link Round Up: January 2, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-january-2-2016/) - News to start your week - and the New Year! Alex Ross discusses the Prototype Festival in The New Yorker, which will feature Missy Mazzoli's opera Breaking the Waves, which was premiered by Opera Philadelphia in September. Read on here. Elizabeth Bell, composer and co-founder of New York Women Composers passed away on December 19 at the age
- [2016 - Year in Review](https://wophil.org/2016-year-in-review/) - As we quickly come to a close on 2016, there is a lot of positive achievements to reflect on. But still quite a bit of work to do in the coming year. In wrapping up all of the highs and lows of the year, we are also reflecting on how grateful we are for all
- [Podcast Episode 01: The Significance of "L'Amour de Loin"](https://wophil.org/postcast-the-significance-of-lamour-de-loin/) - In our first ever Podcast, journalist Naomi Lewin and opera dramaturg Cori Ellison discuss the Met's production of Kaija Saariaho's 2000 opera "L'Amour de Loin." Naomi Lewin has produced the podcast, which includes interview clips with the composer, as well as the conductor Susanna Mälkki. We also hear audio clips from the opera, and
- [Monday Link Round Up: December 26, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-december-26-2016/) - News to start your week! The New York Times profiles Yip Wing-sie, who is conductor of the Hong Kong Sinfonietta. The conversation is about her experiences as a woman and a minority in finding her way to the podium, as well as the current statistics, and stigmas, surrounding women conductors today. Classical-music.com created a list
- [Monday Link Round Up: December 19, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-december-19-2016/) - News to start your week! The conversation about the importance and value of L'Amour de Loin at the Met continues! The New York Times has profiles, and listening samples, from 10 contemporary women opera composers. Read -- and listen -- here. The staff at NewMusicBox has put together a list of the most "standout" recordings to have happened in
- [Monday Link Round Up: December 12, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-december-12-2016/) - News to start your week! Congratulations to Jennifer Higdon on two Grammy Nominations! The new recording of Higdon's first opera, Cold Mountain, has been nominated for the Best Opera Recording as well as the Best Contemporary Classical Composition. Read more at the Albuquerque Journal. Winners will be announced February 12. Elizabeth Blair, composer and Listening to Ladies podcast
- [Monday Link Round Up: December 5, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-december-5-2016/) - News to start your week! On December 1 the Met Opera performed L'Amour de Loin by Kaija Saariaho. This historic Met premiere marked only the second time a work by a woman composer has been heard at the institution - the last being over a century ago. Many great stories and conversations have already come out of this
- [December Calendar is LIVE!](https://wophil.org/december-calendar-is-live/) - Our final installment of the 2016 WPA Calendar is now live and ready for download! Be sure to get your copy here - and share with friends! If you've loved this calendar this year as much as we have loved putting it together, you can stay up to date in 2017 with an updated, printed
- [Monday Link Round Up: November 28, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-november-28-2016/) - News to start your week! First, some very sad news of the death of a pioneer. Pauline Oliveros has passed at age 84. There are many remembrances and tributes. The Guardian has a remembrance, Alex Ross invites readers to listen in, and NPR included a story about her life and work yesterday on All Things Considered. Read
- [Monday Link Round Up: November 21, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-november-21-2016/) - News to start your week! Meredith Monk is celebrating her 74th birthday! Sequenza 21 has a birthday tribute, and review of her newest recording, here. Last week we shared an article about cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason who is working for more diverse representation in classical music. This week The Guardian has another interview with Kanneh-Mason before the
- [Announcing the 2016 Performance Grant Winners](https://wophil.org/announcing-the-2016-performance-grant-winners/) - We were thrilled by the number of applications we've received this year - and the diverse range of programming ideas! It is always energizing to hear about the good work being done by ensembles across the country, and the amazing partnerships and collaborations that are being created to highlight not only the value of the
- [Celebrating Diversity in Michigan](https://wophil.org/celebrating-diversity-in-michigan/) - It's been a rough week. But I'm glad to know that we can take solace in music to reflect, regroup, be reminded of the value of diversity in the world around us, and move forward. Lucky for us, there is a great opportunity to do just that this weekend! On Saturday, November 12 the Michigan Philharmonic, under
- [Monday Link Roundup: November 14, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-roundup-november-14-2016/) - News to start your week! Young cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason has been named BBC's Young Musician for 2016. A rising star in Britain, Kanneh-Mason was the first black musician to win this award, and is now calling for more inclusion in the world of classical music. The Guardian has the story. In more news from the
- [Monday Link Roundup: November 7, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-roundup-november-7-2016/) - News to start your week! The Guardian republished a piece from their archives about the history of all-women orchestras in the UK. There were several "Lady Orchestras" - in the United States and abroad - at the turn of the 20th century, who all fought for a place on stage, and for unbiased recognition of
- [November Calendar LIVE!](https://wophil.org/november-calendar-live/) - A new month means the next edition of the WPA Calendar! The November calendar is now live, and full of birthdays of women composers throughout time that are worth celebrating! Print your free calendar here, and listen to some of the works celebrating birthdays this month with our Spotify Playlist:
- [Monday Link Round Up: October 31, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-october-31-2016/) - News to start your week! In honor of Halloween, take a few minutes to read about Elizabeth Lutyens - an English composer who worked in serialism, but who is perhaps most famous for the dozens of film scores she wrote for horror films! Read more here. The New York Times has a conversation with conductor
- [Xian Zhang Wins New Jersey Podium](https://wophil.org/xian-zhang-wins-new-jersey-podium/) - The New Jersey Symphony has named Xian Zhang as their 14th Music Director. The Chinese American conductor is well known - and well regarded - throughout the United States and around the globe. She was appointed the Assistant Conductor of the New York Philharmonic in 2004, and was appointed Associate Conductor by Lorin Maazel in 2005. Zhang
- [“Mrs. President” Opera, Oct. 28 in NYC](https://wophil.org/mrs-president-opera-oct-28-in-nyc/) - An opera about the original “Nasty Woman,” Victoria Woodhull, will be performed tomorrow at the National Opera Center in New York City, Friday Oct. 28. Composer Victoria Bond wrote the work in 2000, together with librettist Hillary Bell. It will also be streamed live. Bond composed “Mrs. President” in 2000; the title character is Victoria
- [Xian Zhang at the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra](https://wophil.org/xian-zhang-at-the-new-jersey-symphony-orchestra/) - We've been excited about the appointment since it was first announced - and now Xian Zhang's first season as music director of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra has officially begun! The appointment was highly praised at the time - and for good reason. Zhang, who is an internationally acclaimed conductor and has led major ensembles in
- [Coming Concerts](https://wophil.org/coming-concerts/) - Two more great events to look forward toward this weekend from WPA Performance Grant winners!! The Saratoga Orchestra of Whidbey Island, under the direction of Anna Edwards, will perform American composer Margaret Brouwer's Sizzle. The piece was originally commissioned by The Women's Philharmonic as part of The Fanfares Project and was premiered in 2000. Read more about
- [Monday Link Round Up: October 24, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-october-24-2016/) - News to start your week! In another follow up to the performance of works by Saariaho by the New York Phil, read the review by Alex Ross in the October 31 issue of The New Yorker. The full article is available online here. Cellist Evangeline Benedetti has a new book out about cello technique, published
- [Monday Link Round Up: October 17, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-october-17-2016/) - News to start your week! The third episode of the Listening to Ladies podcast is live! Listen here to a conversation with composer and sound artist Anna Höstman. The New York Philharmonic performed a new work by Kaija Saariaho at the Park Avenue Armory this past week. The Guardian has a review. (Friday also marked
- [Call for Papers for Women Composers Festival of Hartford](https://wophil.org/call-for-papers-for-women-composers-festival-of-hartford/) - The annual Women Composers Festival of Hartford is an event not to be missed, and we are excited to know that planning for the 2017 festival is already well underway. The four day event always includes amazing concerts, papers, workshops, and conversations about the value and merit of the under-performed work by women composers, and what
- [Monday Link Round Up: October 10, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-october-10-2016/) - News to start your week! Composer Patricia Morehead writes about her experiences as a young composer starting out in Chicago, and as a founder of CUBE Contemporary Chamber Ensemble. Read about her full and exciting career, and work to promote new music and support the work of women composers, at NewMusicBox. Don't miss the second episode of
- [Much New Music!](https://wophil.org/much-new-music/) - There are so many great concerts happening each weekend! Here are a few highlights for the end of September: The Chattanooga Symphony and Opera, winner of a 2015 WPA Performance Grant, opened their season with Joan Tower's Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No. 2 on September 22. The New England Conservatory, one of the premiere music schools
- [October Calendar now LIVE!](https://wophil.org/october-calendar-now-live/) - A new month means a new addition to the WPA Calendar! The October, 2016 is now live and ready to be downloaded! Get your copy today and never miss an opportunity to celebrate the life and work of women composers. Get your copy here!
- [Monday Link Round Up: October 3, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-october-3-2016/) - News to start your week! Shana Tova to everyone celebrating the new year! In honor of Rosh Hashanah Time Magazine remembers Betty Robbins, the first (known) woman cantor. The magazine profiled her in 1955 and the piece this week follows up with conversations her children. Read it here. Fiona Maddocks of The Guardian reviewed a new CD from
- [New Podcast about Women Composers](https://wophil.org/new-podcast-about-women-composers/) - We are always enthusiastic about any project that recognizes the work of women composers, and the new podcast, Listening to Ladies, is a project that we are particularly excited about! The Listening to Ladies Facebook Page was begin by composer Elizabeth Blair and singer/songwriter Krystee Wylder to shed light onto and further promote the often neglected
- [Monday Link Roundup: September 26, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-roundup-september-26-2016/) - News to start your week! A new opera by Missy Mazzoli premiered in Philadelphia this past weekend. The work, Breaking the Waves, is based on a film by the same name Lars von Trier film. Mazzoli spoke to NPR's morning edition this past weekend. Read the conversation online, or listen below: The Guardian has a review of
- [Congratulations to Julia Wolfe](https://wophil.org/congratulations-to-julia-wolfe/) - We are thrilled to hear that American composer Julia Wolfe is a 2016 recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant. She is only the third women composer to be awarded in the history of the prize. (The first was Bernice Johnson Reagon, founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock, who won in 1989, and the second was
- [ROCO Performs Mendelssohn and Higdon](https://wophil.org/roco-performs-mendelssohn-and-higdon/) - There are two chances this weekend to hear the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra (ROCO) of Houston, TX present exactly the kind of diverse program that audiences have been calling for. It was because of this thoughtful, inclusive, and engaging programming that the ROCO was a recipient of a WPA Performance Grant last year! (We are
- [Monday Link Round Up: September 19, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-september-19-2016/) - News to start your week! Rising star conductor Mirga Gražinyté-Tyla is making her NYC debut today conducting the Juilliard Orchestra. She is leading the ensemble with Berlioz, Beethoven, and Fires from Lithuanian born composer Raminta Šerkšnytė. Find out more about the work here, and tickets and information about today's concert is available here. OperaHub has announced a
- [Activism through Music](https://wophil.org/activism-through-music/) - We've all heard that Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast (William Congreve) but music also has the power to incite action and raise awareness of critical issues in our society. Earlier this year we discussed The Dream Unfinished's work, and the concert remembering and honoring the life of Sandra Bland and offering (from their
- [Monday Link Round Up: September 12, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-september-12-2016/) - News to start your week! The Library of Congress blog, In the Muse, has a guest post by Kate Doyle, a doctoral candidate specializing in experimental composition and sound for performance art at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Doyle focused this past summer sorting and organizing the music commissioned for Erick Hawkins and his
- [Followup on our 2016-17 Repertoire Report](https://wophil.org/followup-2016-17-repertoire/) - We've had pushback on some of the information in our blog post on the 2016-2017 orchestral repertoire of the top 21 U.S. orchestras. A statement by musicologist and writer Steve Ledbetter (on his Facebook page), that these 14 orchestras “have totally turned their backs on women composers” is not 100% correct (but pretty close!) So
- [Monday Link Round Up: September 5, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-september-5-2016/) - Happy Labor Day! Here is some news to enjoy over the holiday, and to start your week! I just found out about the Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award. The prize awards a grant of $10,000 and a year of professional mentorship to an emerging female composer or composer/lyricist. The 2016 application deadline has just been extended until September
- [September Calendar Now LIVE!](https://wophil.org/september-calendar-now-live/) - September is a great month with concert seasons kicking off, cool, crisp weather on the horizon - and some impressive composer birthdays to celebrate! The September WPA calendar is now LIVE and ready to be downloaded. Get your copy today and never miss and important composer birthday. Coming up in the next few weeks we'll
- [Works by Women in the 2016-2017 Season](https://wophil.org/works-by-women-in-the-2016-2017-season/) - There is no denying that the end of summer is upon us. While that means students returning to classrooms, it also means that the 2016-2017 concert season is arriving, too! Before we get all dressed up for Opening Night Galas, let's have a look at what we can expect in the coming months. We have
- [Monday Link Round Up: August 29, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-august-29-2016/) - News to start your week! ICYMI we are celebrating the 130th birthday of Rebecca Carke! Read more about Clarke's life, music, and legacy here - or at The Rebecca Clarke Society! The reviews are in from the City of Birmingham's performance at the BBC Proms, and The Guardian called the performance, led by Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, "spellbinding"
- [HAPPY 130TH BIRTHDAY, REBECCA CLARKE!](https://wophil.org/happy-130th-birthday-rebecca-clarke/) - Interest continues to build in the music of the exceptionally talented British-American violist and composer, Rebecca Clarke. An exciting new CD featuring her best-known work has been released just in time for her birthday! The Dutton Vocalion album (CDLX7329) includes the Hallé Orchestra and virtuoso violist Sarah-Jane Bradley performing the first ever commercially-released recording of
- [Monday Link Round Up: August 22, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-august-22-2016/) - News to start your week! The Fall 2016 edition of The Kapralova Society newsletter is now available to download! Articles include a conversation with conductor Odaline de la Martinez and an analysis and comparison of the work of Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn. Get this issue, and back issues, on The Kapralova Society website. Bitch Magazine,
- [WPA Performance Grant Applications now LIVE](https://wophil.org/wpa-performance-grant-applications-now-live/) - We are thrilled to once again offer funding through Performance Grants - supporting performances of works by women composers by American orchestras. The goal of these grants, first established in 2012, has been to encourage future performances of works by historic and contemporary women composers. Any American orchestra - community, professional, or youth - is
- [Monday Link Round Up: August 15, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-august-15-2016/) - News to start your week! The WPA Performance Grant Application is now LIVE! Funding is available to U.S. Orchestras (community, youth, and professional) who are committed to performing works by women composers. Find out more, and begin your application, here. A new month means another edition of the Into the Light Radio listening quiz! Take
- [Monday Link Round Up: August 1, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-august-1-2016/) - News to start your week! Melvyn Krauss has a great piece at Bloomberg.com titled, "Why More Women are Winning at Musical Chairs". Krauss, emeritus professor of economics at NYU and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, provides a thoughtful discussion and on the history and progress of women in the field of
- [Works by Women at the 2016 BBC Proms](https://wophil.org/works-by-women-at-the-2016-bbc-proms/) - The most anticipated and celebrated summer festival each year -- as well as one of the oldest, and longest, running from July to September. The Proms always presents an interesting range of ensembles, conductors, soloists, and styles. The 2016 season kicks off on Friday, July 15, demonstrating that this season is going to be much
- [Monday Link Round Up: August 8, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-august-8-2016/) - News to start your week: Elizabeth Blair - herself a composer, activist, and writer - has a fantastic interview with composer Lisa Coons available to read now at VAN Magazine. Frank Oteri at New Music Box has an interview with American composer Eleanor Cory. Read the full conversation online here, and watch the video below:
- [Celebrating New Music and Marin Alsop at Cabrillo](https://wophil.org/celebrating-new-music-and-marin-alsop-at-cabrillo/) - The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music begins on July 31. This annual event is always worth anticipating and hugely rewarding - but this year is particularly special as it is Marin Alsop's last at the helm. Alsop is stepping down after 25 years as artistic director and leading the festival to ever new and exciting
- [August Calendar Now Live!](https://wophil.org/august-calendar-now-live/) - A new month means a new edition of the WPA Calendar honoring historic composers! The August calendar is now live and ready to be downloaded and shared - get your copy here!
- [Monday Link Round Up: July 25, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-july-25-2016/) - News to start your week! ICYMI, Philip Clark shared his thoughts in The Guardian in a blog post titled "Where have the great composers gone?" His thesis is, essentially, that contemporary music doesn't compare to composers like Britten, Tippet, Davies, and Birswistle. You can read the full piece here. What's most important about this piece is
- [Diverse Programming at the Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra](https://wophil.org/diverse-programming-at-the-lake-superior-chamber-orchestra/) - More and more ensembles have been embracing the summer festival season in recent years, and using the opportunity to explore new approaches in performance venues and programming. The Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra is one of the most established summer ensembles, first established in 1987 to extend the classical music season into the summer months. Though
- [Monday Link Round Up: July 18, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-july-18-2016/) - News to start your week! New Music Box has the fellows and finalists of the New York Foundation of the Arts Artists' Fellowship Program - including Lisa Bielawa, Du Yun, Stephanie Griffin, Sarah Hennies, Molly Herron, and Angelica Negrón. Read more here. Patti Niemi, percussionist with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, has a new memoir
- [Monday Link Round Up: July 11, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-july-11-2016/) - News to start your week! We shared information last week about the upcoming concert by The Dream Unfinished and the amazing work being done by this activist orchestra. The ensemble has also received some well-deserved press from The New York Times. A new opera by Patricia Leonard just received its world premiere in Boston! The opera, My
- [The Dream Unfinished in NYC](https://wophil.org/the-dream-unfinished-in-nyc/) - The message and importance of the #BlackLivesMatter movement becomes increasingly more relevant with each new day, and each new and horrific tragedy - like the police shootings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge and Philando Castile in Minneapolis that occurred in the last several days. The Dream Unfinished is an activist orchestra based in NYC that works
- [Featured Guest Blog:  Johanna Kinkel Research in the Twenty-First Century](https://wophil.org/kinkel/) - Featured Guest Blogger Anja Bunzel -- On the Occasion of Johanna Kinkel’s Birthday, July 8 In May we featured a blog post by Anja Bunzel, and we promised another post by her, about her dissertation subject Johanna Kinkel. Below, in honor of Kinkel’s birthday, July 8, is that post. Bunzel is a Ph.D. candidate at
- [Tuesday Link Round Up: July 5, 2016](https://wophil.org/tuesday-link-round-up-july-5-2016/) - Here's hoping everyone had a meaningful and safe holiday! And now some news to start your week! Coming from roots in The Women's Philharmonic, it's thrilling to hear about the founding of a new all-woman orchestra. The Allegra Chamber Orchestra is based out of Vancouver, Canada. The CBC has the story - read online here,
- [July Calendar Now Live!](https://wophil.org/july-calendar-now-live/) - Don't miss out on getting your July WPA Calendar! Notable birthdays for July include Ruth Crawford Seeger, Maria Anna ("Nannerl") Mozart, Elizabeth Lutyens - and more! Download your free copy now an never miss an opportunity to celebrate and honor the work of women composers!
- [New Work by Mary Watkins](https://wophil.org/new-work-by-mary-watkins/) - The National Women's Music Festival is well underway in Middleton, Wisconsin. The coming weekend will bring a full schedule of concerts, workshops, and opportunities to learn, share, and enjoy music by women in virtually every genre. It's no surprise that the event we are looking forward to the most is the performance by the National
- [Monday Link Round Up: June 27, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-june-27-2016/) - News to start your week! Dallas Opera Conducting Institute has announced the 2016 participants! The winners this year are: Elizabeth Askren (USA), a graduate of Bard's Conducting Institute who has been an assistant music director at the Concertgebouw; Mihaela Cesa-Goje (Romania), winner of a 2011 Dudamel Fellowship; Alexandra Cravero (France), who has led several operas
- [Repertoire Statistics Report—2009-2010](https://wophil.org/repertoire-statistics-report-2009-2012/) - Every year the League of American Orchestras releases statistics on the repertoire that is performed by member ensembles. The information is collected and painstakingly compiled so that arts administrators, musicians, and academics can take notice of trends and changes in the music being heard on American soil. As with most arts organizations over the past
- [Much to Celebrate at National Women's Music Festival!](https://wophil.org/much-to-celebrate-at-national-womens-music-festival/) - The 41st annual National Women's Music Festival is taking place June 30-July 3 in Middleton, WI. Each year the Festival celebrates women's work across musical genres with exciting performances and workshops. We are especially excited this year to support the National Women's Music Festival Orchestra with a WPA Performance Grant in the commissioning of a new work
- [Monday Link Round Up: June 20, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-june-20-2016/) - News to start your week! Eleanor Sokoloff, piano teacher at the Curtis Institute, is celebrating her 102nd birthday. She has taught at the institution since 1936. The Philadelphia Inquirer has a profile. There's a new festival celebrating the work of women in electronic music. Some of the pioneers being honored include Daphne Oram, Laurie
- [Honoring Fathers](https://wophil.org/honoring-fathers/) - It can be hard to look past the stories of those composers who faced obstacles in their art at the hands of their own parents. There are some famous stories - from Germaine Tailleferre, who changed her name to break ties with her father, and Ethel Smyth, who had to battle her dad to be
- [Choral Work by Ethel Smyth in U.S. Premiere—May 14-1](https://wophil.org/choral-work-by-ethel-smyth-in-u-s-premiere-may-14-1/) - UPDATE: Read a review of the "The Prison"s American debut. While composer Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) has some name recognition, one of her most important works, the concert-length cantata "The Prison", has never been performed in the U.S.. An amazing NYC- choir, Cantori, will perform the work May 14 & 15. Please help to spread the word!!
- [Monday Link Round Up: June 13, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-june-13-2016/) - Thinking about, and grieving for, Orlando. ArtsHub published an article by Sally Macarthur, Cat Hope, and Dawn Bennett highlights the gender disparities for women composers in Australia. (The original version of the article was published on The Conversation.) Aljazeera has the story of two Iranian women coming together to explore and celebrate the
- [New Commissions from Kronos Quartet](https://wophil.org/new-commissions-from-kronos-quartet/) - The Kronos Quartet has announced an exciting new project titled Fifty for the Future. From the Kronos Quartet website: Kronos’ Fifty for the Future is commissioning a collection of 50 new works – 10 per year for five years – devoted to the most contemporary approaches to the string quartet, designed expressly for the training of students and
- [Monday Link Round Up: June 6, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-june-6-2016/) - News to start your week! One of the famous stories of music history is the way in which Bach's music fell into obscurity after his death to be rediscovered later by Felix Mendelssohn. I've just been made aware of the work of Bach scholar Christoph Wolff who asserts that it was Mendelssohn's aunt, Sara Levy,
- [June Calendar Now Live!](https://wophil.org/june-calendar-now-live/) - Don't forget to download your free WPA Calendar for June! One of the great challenges in researching the work of women composers is often just how little information is readily available. While some composers chose to destroy their own work, others have their papers incredibly well preserved in archives around the world - but not
- [Women Composers Festival of Hartford 2017 Call for Scores and Papers](https://wophil.org/women-composers-festival-of-hartford-2017-call-for-scores-and-papers/) - I am delighted to share the Women Composers Festival of Hartford's announcement for the 2017 Festival, which will take place March 30-April 2. Each year the organizers masterfully balance a range of contemporary and historic music performances, works by the composer-in-residence, concerts featuring works written for the ensemble-in-residence, and scholarly papers and discussions. This year
- [Music for Memorial Day](https://wophil.org/music-for-memorial-day/) - Today we are celebrating Memorial Day in the United States - a time to reflect, remember, and be grateful for those who have served in the armed forces. We wish everyone a meaningful day spent with friends and family, and listening to powerful and provocative music. Have a listen to some of the tracks we
- [Featured Guest Blogger: Report from German Conference on Women and Gender Studies](https://wophil.org/guest-blogger-german-conference/) - I was recently in touch with musicologist Anja Bunzel, because I am intrigued by her research project on Johanne Kinkel. Bunzel will write another post for us about Kinkel, but first we asked her to share with us about the annual conference of the Working Group for Women’s and Gender Studies of the Society for Music Research,
- [Monday Link Round Up: May 23, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-may-23-2016/) - News to start your week! NPR's Weekend Edition featured a conversation with Anna Beer and her new book, Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music. (Purchase your copy here!) Read the conversation on the NPR website, or listen below! Last week we shared the sad news of the death of Atlanta Symphony
- [Monday Link Round Up: May 16, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-may-16-2016/) - News to start your week! It's with a heavy heart that we share the news of the death of Jane Little - bass player with the Atlanta Symphony, and the worlds longest serving orchestral musician - has died after collapsing on stage. Read more at the Washington Post. Bob Shingleton at On An Overgrown Path visited
- [Music All Weekend](https://wophil.org/music-all-weekend/) - We continue to march on towards the end of the 2015-2016 concert season, and this weekend is full of concerts featuring works by women composers. We are also proud that we were able to support so many great ensembles - from coast to coast - with WPA Performance Grants. The Alabama Symphony Orchestra,
- [Celebrate Mothers of Music in May](https://wophil.org/celebrate-mothers-of-music-in-may/) - Though we think we should celebrate women composers every day, but the month of May seems especially appropriate to celebrate the foremothers of music. Be sure to download and share the May calendar which celebrates contemporary women (Judith Weir, Tania Leon, Victoria Bond) and historic figures (Louise Farrenc, Marianne von Martines, and Sappho, whose lyric poetry
- [Remembering Ursula Mamlok](https://wophil.org/remembering-ursula-mamlok/) - It is with great sadness that we share the news of Ursula Mamlok's death. Born in Germany in 1923, Mamlok and her family fled the Nazis to Ecuador when she was only 17. She received a scholarship to study at the Mannes School of Music in New York City. Her compositional style included use of serialism
- [Monday Link Round Up: May 2, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-may-2-2016/) - News to start your week! Tim Rutherford-Johnson reviews Liza Lim's new opera, Tree of Codes, in Limelight Magazine. His take: it should not be missed! Charlotte Higgins of The Guardian reviews the just published book, Songs and Sweet Airs by Anna Beer, a history of eight European women composers. Read more about the book here. The
- [Celebrating Uncommon Women in New Haven](https://wophil.org/upcoming-concerts-3/) - Tomorrow, April 28, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, winner of a WPA Performance Grant, will be performing Joan Tower's Second Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman. Known today to be on of the most prolific and performed living American composers, Tower's piece, like the first and third fanfares, are an homage and response to Aaron Copland's Fanfare to the Common
- [Monday Link Round Up: April 25, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-april-25-2016/) - News to start your week! Conductor JoAnn Falletta, who leads the Buffalo Philharmonic and Virginia Symphony, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Read the press release here. Estonian World has an in depth interview with conductor Kristiina Poska - the kapellmeister of the Komische Oper Berlin, and reportedly the busiest
- [Composers You Should Know: Ethel Smyth](https://wophil.org/composers-you-should-know-ethel-smyth/) - Saturday, April 23 marks the 158th birthday of Dame Ethel Smyth. Known for going against norms (defying her father in receiving a music education, composed operas in Victorian England, fiercely advocated for women's rights and women's suffrage, and was not secretive about being a lesbian) her works have largely fallen into obscurity - though not
- [Composers You Should Know: Germaine Tailleferre](https://wophil.org/composers-you-should-know-germaine-tailleferre/) - This past Tuesday, April 19, marked the 124th birthday of French composer Germaine Tailleferre. She is remembered predominately for being the only female member of Les Six, a group of French composers (other members included Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Georges Auric, and Francis Poulenc). Tailleferre attended the Paris Conservatory against her father's wishes. Her
- [Monday Link Round Up: April 18, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-april-18-2016/) - Some news to start your week! The big news this weekend was that James Levine is stepping down from the Met. Anne Midgette talks about why a new conductor is long overdue - and WQXR speculates on who will fill the role. (Spoiler: no one is being on a woman taking the baton.) Composer Kate
- [Music You Shouldn't Miss](https://wophil.org/music-you-shouldnt-miss/) - We are quickly approaching the end of the 2015-2016 concert season - but that hasn't slowed down the pace of excellent concerts happening across the country. This weekend two winners of WPA Performance Grants will present works by women. On Saturday and Sunday the Williamsburg Symphonia will present Florence Price's Symphony No. 3. We
- [Monday Link Round Up: April 11, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-april-11-2016/) - News to start your week! Susanna Mälkki's work continues to be recognized. Not long ago she was named the new Chief Conductor of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, and just this week it was announced that she is the new Principal Guest Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Read the story at the Los Angeles Times,
- [Composers You Should Know: Louise Reichardt](https://wophil.org/composers-you-should-know-louise-reichardt/) - Today marks the 237th birthday of German composer Louise Reichardt. The daughter of Juliane and Johann Fridrick Reichardt - both of whom were also accomplished composers - she was fortunate to receive tremendous support in her musical endeavors. Louise primarily composed Lieder, four of which were published in 1800 in a collection of her father's works.
- [Composer You Should Know: Florence Price](https://wophil.org/composer-you-should-know-florence-price/) - Today (April 9) is the 129th birthday of American composer Florence Price (1887-1953). Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Price demonstrated music aptitude from an early age and earned the rare opportunity to study composition with George Chadwick at the New England Conservatory. She eventually settled in Chicago where she began to compose prolifically, have her works published,
- [Upcoming Performances](https://wophil.org/upcoming-performances/) - The fantastic performances keep coming with another round of concerts supported in part by WPA Performance Grants! On Saturday, April 9, the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra of Houston will present the world premiere of a new Trombone Concerto by Dorothy Gates (herself also a trombonist) . The work was commissioned by the ROCO. Find out more information
- [April Calendar!](https://wophil.org/april-calendar/) - 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 of her Sonata for clarinet and cello.
- ["Figaro Gets a Divorce" -- new opera a triumph in Wales!](https://wophil.org/figaro-divorce-langer/) - 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," Langer's "Figaro Gets a Divorce" brings us the beloved characters down the road form the "Marriage"s happy ending, in this opera "which is part comedy, part political thriller." If you can
- [Monday Link Round Up: April 4, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-april-4-2016/) - News to start your week! Anna Beer, a writer, historian, and Lecturer at the University of Oxford, just had an editorial published by The Guardian sharing her experience learning about the rich but forgotten history of women's work in music. She discuses works by Caccini, Strozzi, Mendelssohn Hensel, and others. Conductor and singer Barbara Hannigan was interviewed
- [Composers You Should Know: Mary Howe](https://wophil.org/composers-you-should-know-mary-howe/) - Today (April 4) is the 134th birthday of American pianist and composer Mary Howe. An incredibly prolific composer, Howe was fortunate to be born into a wealthy and supportive family. After receiving piano lessons from an early age, Howe was performing professionally by age 18. She completed formal study in composition at Peabody Conservatory, and was also a
- [Shocking Lack of Dead White Men Among 2016-2017 Repertories](https://wophil.org/april-fools-2016/) - Orchestras across the country are beginning to announce programming for the 2016-2017 season – and we couldn’t be more THRILLED about the coming concerts! The top ensembles from across the country have finally decided to eschew the typical classical fare of more Beethoven and Mozart than you can shake a stick at, and instead are
- [New Music This Weekend](https://wophil.org/new-music-this-weekend/) - We are looking forward to another great weekend of concerts from WPA Performance Grant winners! On Friday, April 1 the American Composers Orchestra will present a concert of works inspired by Indian and Middle Eastern traditions. Three World Premieres will be featured, including Avartan by Indian-American composer Reena Esmail. Also being performed Friday is The Metamorphosis of Narcissus by Gity Razaz.
- [New film on Florence Price airs on PBS!](https://wophil.org/new-film-on-florence-price-airs-on-pbs/) - 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 a major symphony orchestra. Price was born in Little
- [Monday Link Round Up: March 28, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-march-28-2016/) - Some news - and great listening - to start your week! NPR had some great stories in recent days - including this feature on the life and music of jazz pianist and composer Marian McPartland. Listen below: NPR also introduced listeners to Camerata Romeu - Cuba's all female orchestra. Read the transcript here, or
- [Happy Birthday Julia Perry](https://wophil.org/happy-birthday-julia-perry/) - Today would have been American composer Julia Perry's 92nd birthday. Perry was one of the first African American composers to gain acclaim - and establish a career in composition. Her music was largely neoclassical, but also included experimentation with dissonances. She won two Guggenheim fellowships and studied with Nadia Boulanger (who, reportedly, felt that she didn't
- [Concert and Recordings from the Nashville Symphony](https://wophil.org/concert-and-recordings-from-the-nashville-symphony/) - Over the three cycles of Performance Grants that WPA has funded to community, professional, and youth orchestras, we have been delighted to support ensembles from across the country. In addition to introducing their audiences to important works by women, many ensembles also do extensive outreach and educational opportunities for the larger community. This weekend the
- [Monday Link Round Up: March 21, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-march-21-2016/) - News to start your week! The Women Composers Festival of Hartford, which took place March 10-13, included a keynote address by WPA President Liane Curtis. Conductor Dr. Amelia Nagoski offered her reflection on Liane's message on her blog, Thoughtful Gestures. Be also to read the Spring 2016 issue of the Kapralova Society Journal. (And
- [Women Composers on NWPR](https://wophil.org/women-composers-on-nwpr/) - This Sunday, March 20, tune into Northwest Public Radio (NWPR) for a marathon of music by women composers. From 9pm to midnight (PST) you can hear the works of historic and contemporary women. The playlist is thanks to Classical Music host Gigi Yellen. You can read more about the music that will be broadcast
- [Celebrating St. Patrick's Day!](https://wophil.org/celebrating-st-patricks-day/) - On this day when we all celebrate Ireland and our (real or embellished) Irish heritage, let's also take some time to listen to works by women that pay homage to the Emerald Isle. Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867-1972) was born and raised in Boston. Fortunate enough to have been born into a musical family
- [Monday Link Round Up: March 14, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-march-14-2016/) - With Women's History Month is full swing (did you download your calendar yet?) it's no surprise that there are many stories to draw our attention. Here is some news to start your week! Streaming music provider Rhapsody shared an article on International Women's Day titled, "Women's Indelible Mark on Classical Music" - a thoughtful, if
- [Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla in the News](https://wophil.org/mirga-grazinyte-tyla-in-the-news/) - Audiences are getting more and more familiar with the name Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla for good reason. The up and coming conductor is gaining attention - and acclaim - for her work in the United States and around the world. NBC Today recently interviewed Gražinytė-Tyla, introducing her to audiences as the "woman conductor of the LA Philharmonic". (She recently
- [Upcoming Concerts](https://wophil.org/upcoming-concerts-2/) - We are looking forward to another great weekend of concerts supported by WPA Performance Grants! Today, Friday March 11, the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra will open their concert with Stars by American composer and pianist Mary Howe. A prolific composer, Howe composed large and small works, many of which were published in her lifetime. Learn more about tonight's
- [Google Doodle Celebrates Clara Rockmore](https://wophil.org/google-doodle-celebrates-clara-rockmore/) - Today's Google Doodle is celebrating the 105th birthday of musician Clara Rockmore. Rockmore was a trained violinist who suffered a physical injury which prevented her from pursing a career in music. That is, until she discovered the theremin. She became the most accomplished theremin performer, and greatest advocate for its development. Be sure to explore the
- [Monday Link Round Up: March 7, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-march-7-2016/) - News to start your week! WQXR profiles seven women conductors in honor of Women's History Month - including Barbara Hannigan, Xian Zhang, Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, Joana Carneiro, Elim Chan, Sarah Hicks, and Mei-Ann Chen. Read more here. The Oxford University Press blog has an interview with composer David Conte and his experiences working with Nadia Boulanger. Read the
- [Composers You Should Know: Margaret Bonds](https://wophil.org/composers-you-should-know-margaret-bonds/) - Happy 103rd birthday to American pianist and composer Margaret Bonds! Born and raised in Chicago, Bonds showed an early aptitude for music and composition. She pursued formal education in music, studying at Northwestern University and Juilliard. She then sought composition lessons from Nadia Boulanger (who, reportedly, reviewed one of her works and felt that Bonds needed no
- [Celebrating March With Music by Women](https://wophil.org/celebrating-march/) - March is Women's History Month - and while we think that every month is good time to include women's work in concert program, it's a particularly appropriate time to reflect on women's work and impact through time. There are several exciting concerts to look forward to this weekend - and we at WPA are thrilled
- [Monday Link Round Up: February 29, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-february-29-2016/) - News to start your week! Continuing the conversation about women an opera that began last week with the announcement that Saariaho's work will be heard next season (and is only the second work by a woman to ever be performed), Shawn Milnes of The Daily Beast asks "Can Opera Cure Its Sexism Problem?" It's a must read!
- [Monday Link Round Up: February 22, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-february-22-2016/) - News to start your week! It was announced this week that Kaija Saaraiho will be the first woman since Ethel Smyth to hear her opera performed at the Met - making her the second woman ever. The New York Times has the story. For some perspective, the Times also reminded readers of the announcement to the 1903
- [New Works This Weekend](https://wophil.org/new-works-this-weekend/) - Congratulations to the Community Women's Orchestra and Hartford Independent Chamber Orchestra - both WPA Performance Grant winners presenting works by women composers in concerts this weekend! This Saturday, February 20, the Hartford Independent Chamber Orchestra (HICO) will perform a concert titled "Voices of Connecticut Poets" and will feature the world premiere of a new work by Jessica
- [Monday Link Round Up: February 15, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-february-15-2016/) - News to start your week! Singer and doctoral candidate Catherine Gardner is conducting research on the effects of pregnancy on singers. Take part in her research by responding to her (anonymous) survey available on her website. On an Overgrown Path reminded readers that there are many glass ceilings for conductors, and that we need to acknowledge
- [Featured Guest Blogger: Carol Cubberley on (RE)Discovering Amanda Maier](https://wophil.org/carol-cubberly-on-amanda-maier/) - Carol Cubberley, a freelance violinist in Boston, MA, became interested in uncovering music by women while at Boston Conservatory, and chose to play only music composed by women at her masters recital. In 2013 Carol was the violinist for the Apple Hill Festival fellowship trio and was a teaching assistant at Apple Hill in the summer of
- [Monday Link Round Up: February 8, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-february-8-2016/) - News to start your week! The City of Birmingham Symphony has officially announced that Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla will in fact become the new music director. Read the official press release here. The reaction to her appointment has been fantastically positive - the Guardian has thoughts by Andrew Clements as well as Imogen Tilden. And in case you're curious, check out
- [Composers You Should Know: Dorothy Howell](https://wophil.org/composers-you-should-know-dorothy-howell/) - Today is the 118th birthday of English composer and pianist Dorothy Howell. Howell's formal music education was at the Royal Academy of Music. Her early success was marked by the premiere of her symphonic poem, Lamia, at the Proms under the baton of Sir Henry Wood in September, 1919. Wood would continue to champion her music
- [Composers You Should Know: Jean Coulthard](https://wophil.org/composers-you-should-know-jean-coulthard/) - Today marks the 108th birthday of Canadian composer and educator Jean Coulthard. Coulthard's formal music education began at the Royal Conservatory of Music with Ralph Vaughan Williams. Later, she studied with Béla Bartók, Aaron Copland, and Arnold Schoenberg. Beginning in 1947 Coulthard taught composition and theory at the University of British Columbia. Her compositional output included works for
- [Composers You Should Know: Marguerite Béclard d'Harcourt](https://wophil.org/composers-you-should-know-marguerite-beclard-dharcourt/) - Happy 132nd birthday to Marguerite Béclard d'Harcourt! A French composer and ethnomusicologist. d’Harcourt studied composition with Abel Decaux, Vincent d’Indy, and Maurice Emmauel. Her compositional output included works for large and small ensembles, including works for children, chamber ensembles, and symphony orchestras. As an ethnomusicologist, her work focused on the folk music of South America and
- [Composers You Should Know: Elfrida Andrée](https://wophil.org/composers-you-should-know-elfrida-andree/) - Happy birthday to Swedish organist, composer, and conductor Elfrida Andrée! She made history as being the first woman organist in Sweden, as well as the first Swedish woman to conduct a symphony orchestra. Andrée’s work as a composer includes two organ symphonies, several works for chamber ensembles, two Swedish masses, and an opera, Fritiofs saga.
- [Composers You Should Know: Grażyna Bacewicz](https://wophil.org/composers-you-should-know-grazyna-bacewicz/) - Happy 107th birthday to Polish composer and violinist Grażyna Bacewicz, born February 5, 1909. A graduate of the Warsaw Conservatory, she continued her studies in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. Bacewicz served as principal violinist for the Polish Radio Orchestra from 1936-1938. After fleeing Poland after the Warsaw uprising, she returned after WWII and focused on
- [Sphinx Conference: Igniting Diversity in the Arts](https://wophil.org/sphinx-conference/) - 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 that connection is also something to be celebrated. So
- [Rediscovering Lost Works](https://wophil.org/rediscovering-lost-works/) - This weekend, in a concert supported by a WPA Performance Grant, the Greater Boulder Youth Orchestra will honor the life and work of an important but long-forgotten Baroque composer. Precious little is known about the life of Camila de Rossi. There is strong evidence that she was of Roman birth, and we know that she lived
- [Composers You Should Know: Ursula Mamlok](https://wophil.org/composers-you-should-know-ursula-mamlok/) - Happy birthday to composer, pianist, and educator Ursula Mamlok! Born in Berlin on February 1, 1923, Mamlok began her musical education with Gustav Ernest and Emily Weissgerber until they fled Nazi Germany and came to the United States. Mamlok continued her studies at the Mannes School of Music, and then continued on to the Manhattan School
- [Monday Link Round Up: February 1, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-february-1-2016/) - Some news to start your week! Philip Kennicott, art critic for The Washington Post, contributed to this month's Opera News to discuss the ways in which topics of gender and race are handled - or not - in current opera productions. This comes after the Met ended the tradition of using blackface in Otello and recent conversations surrounding The Mikado
- [Women Composers Festival of Hartford 2016 Lineup](https://wophil.org/women-composers-festival-of-hartford-2016-lineup/) - The classical music corner of the Internet was a-buzz this morning at the news that the NYPhil named Jaap van Sweden as Alan Gilbert's successor. (Anne Midgette, of the Washington Post, has her thoughts here, and Amanda Angel of NYC's classical station, WQXR, has her thoughts here.) Though not surprising, that they didn't choose one of
- [Composers You Should Know: Julia Smith](https://wophil.org/composers-you-should-know-julia-smith/) - Happy 111th birthday to American composer Julia Smith (1905-1989)! Born in Texas, Smith was a graduate of the University of North Texas College of Music, Juilliard School, and New York University. Smith's best remembered compositional output was her operas and works for orchestra. In addition to her work in musicology, including publications on the life
- [Monday Link Round Up: January 25, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-january-25-2016/) - Some news to start your week! Nadja Solerno-Sonnenberg will be stepping down from her position as Music Director of the New Century Chamber Orchestra next year. The San Francisco Classical Voice has the story. British Cultural Minister says that UK orchestras must make changes to encourage more diversity in their members. The Guardian has
- [Monday Link Round Up: January 18, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-january-18-2016/) - Some links to start your week! ICYMI Swedish Radio broadcast Ellen Nisbeth performing Rebecca Clarke's Sonata for Viola which was orchestrated by Ruth Lomon. The program will be available to stream here for the next month. Mari Valverde has an insightful piece at New Music Box on the musical hoops that composers often ask sopranos
- [Munich Conference on Women and Conductors and Composers](https://wophil.org/munich-conference-on-women-and-conductors-and-composers/) - “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 classical concert business?” We will pursue answers with some renowned experts and with you.
- [Composers You Should Know: Mel Bonis](https://wophil.org/composers-you-should-know-mel-bonis/) - Today marks the 158th birthday of Mélanie Hélène Bonis (1858-1937) - though she is known most commonly as simply Mel Bonis. A prolific French composer, Bonis worked in small and large forms composing works for orchestras, chamber ensembles, choir, organ, and choirs. A handful of her 300+ compositions are available at the Petrucci Music Library. Though she did
- [Composers You Should Know: Clara Kathleen Rogers and Corona Schröter](https://wophil.org/composers-you-should-know-clara-kathleen-rogers-and-corona-schroter/) - Today (January 14) is Clara Kathleen Rogers 172nd birthday, and Corona Schröter's 265th birthday. Clara Kathleen Rogers (1844-1931) was an American composer, singer, and educator. She had the great advantage of being born into a musical family, received formal training, and had an exciting career as an opera singer. She stopped performing professional when
- [Monday Link Round Up: January 11, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-january-11-2016/) - News to start your week! The Other Mozart, the play about Mozart's sister Nannerl which we have written about before, was presented in Houston. You can read the review here. The Brighton Festival has announced that Laurie Anderson will be Guest Director for the 2016 - the Festival's 50th season. More information here.
- [Olivia Block on NPR](https://wophil.org/olivia-block-on-npr/) - NPR's Morning Edition shared the work of Chicago based composer Olivia Block as part of the series, "Musicians in their own Words." In a story that ran on January 7th, Block walked listeners through the soundscape of downtown Chicago and shared how she discovers and records sounds in her day to day life to incorporate in her electroacoustic compositions. Listen
- [Upcoming Concerts](https://wophil.org/upcoming-concerts/) - We are kicking off the new year with two exciting concerts funded by WPA Performance Grants! On Friday, January 8 the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra will perform Lera Auerbach's Icarus in a sold-out event! Learn more about the LPO and Friday's event here. For those not lucky enough to have tickets, listen to Icarus below: On Sunday,
- [Monday Link Round Up: January 5, 2016](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-january-5-2016/) - Some news to start your week - and your New Year! A new month means a new quiz from Into the Light Radio! Have a listen here and take a guess for a chance to win an orchestral sampler CD from WPA! The Kapralova Society shared an exciting and inspiring year end review
- [2015 In Review](https://wophil.org/2015-in-review/) - This was an exciting year for those of us following women's work in music. We've already talked a bit about the tremendous opportunities and advancements women have made in conducting roles. But Let's also take some time to look at the plethora of "Highlight" lists that have been shared online and see how they compare
- [Monday Link Round Up: December 28, 2015](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-december-28-2015/) - News to start your week - and finish out the year! Kyle Gann at Postclassic shared his thoughts on the music of Ethel Smyth - and what he believes to be the best recording of her work (thus far). The Women Composers Festival of Hartford has announced that the 2016 Composer in residence is Jessica
- [Monday Link Round Up: December 21, 2015](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-december-21-2015/) - News to start your week! Sinfini Music shared the premiere of a new remix of work by Anna Meredith. Listen to Tanya Auclair's reinterpretation of Meredith's work here. TheaterJones, which covers North Texas Performing Arts News, followed up with the conductors who participated in the Dallas Opera Institute. Read the conversation here. And if you
- [A Conversation with Alice Parker](https://wophil.org/a-conversation-with-alice-parker/) - We are always enthusiastic to support the work of student scholars, especially as they increase the knowledge of the work of women composers. Most recently we were delighted to help students in WPA Board Member Beth Denisch's Women Composers course at Berklee College of Music as they researched and wrote Wikipedia articles on women composers. One
- [Happy Birthday, Alice Parker!](https://wophil.org/happy-birthday-alice-parker/) - American composer, conductor, arranger, and educator Alice Parker celebrated her 90th birthday on Wednesday. We were delighted to see that NPR covered this notable occasion on All Things Considered. Listen to the story below (the transcript is also available here): Learn more about Alice Parker on the Melodious Accord website, and find links to the
- [Monday Link Round Up: December 14, 2015](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-december-14-2015/) - News to start your week! We can look forward to an excellent Ojai Festival in 2016 with music director Peter Sellars who announced that the festival will feature works by Kaija Saariaho, Caroline Shaw, Pauline Oliveros, Carla Kihlstedt, Sharon Hurvitz, and Tania León. Read the announcement at the New York Times or Sellar's own thoughts on the
- [Announcing 2015 Performance Grant Winners](https://wophil.org/announcing-2015-performance-grant-winners/) - We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2015 cycle of Women's Philharmonic Advocacy Performance Grants. Our panel of judges were very pleased with the number - and quality - of applications and needed to make some hard decisions in how to distribute the funding. The judges were particularly impressed with the ensembles that demonstrated
- [No Excuses Project](https://wophil.org/no-excuses-project/) - We are thrilled for the continued success - and social activism through music - of WPA Board Member, composer, conductor, and educator Kathleen McGuire. We wrote last year about the premieres and acclaim that her collaborative project Street Requiem received in Texas as well as California (including a recent award from The American Prize). Her new project, titled NO EXC-- USES,
- [Listen to FEMALE CONDUCTORS -- a whole LOT of them!!](https://wophil.org/listen-to-female-conductors-a-whole-lot-of-them/) - Back on Aug. 9, 2015, Jeremy Eichler (the Boston Globe’s classical music critic) annoyed me by repeatedly using male pronouns in an article about the art of conducting. True, the article’s focus was the Boston SO’s new(ish) music director Andris Nelsons, but I bristled and rolled my eyes reading sentences like “…players can size up
- [Moving Forward: Opportunities for Women Conductors](https://wophil.org/opportunities-for-women-conductors/) - It's been a banner year for opportunities for women conductors. Since this time last year we've shared stories about: Elim Chan, the first woman to win the Donatella Flick Conducting Competition Rei Hotoda, the first woman Associate Conductor to the Utah Symphony Orchestra JoAnn Falletta renewed her contract with the Buffalo Philharmonic Agata Sorotokin, who
- [Monday Link Round Up: December 7, 2015](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-december-7/) - News to start your week! Right after we stopped to think about just how many stories about women conductors have made it to the news this year, the Orange County Register did a profile of Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla. You can also read Marin Alsop's thoughts about the importance of getting more women on the podium, and her all-female
- [Monday Link Round Up: November 30, 2015](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-november-30-2015/) - Enjoy some Thanksgiving leftovers and catch up on news to start your week! A performance by the Tehran Symphony Orchestra was cancelled last minute when organizers of the event told the conductor that women were not allowed to perform on stage. Read the story, and learn more about the restrictions that women musicians have
- [Giving Thanks](https://wophil.org/giving-thanks/) - I have always enjoyed this time of year and the reminder to stop, reflect, and be grateful for the people, music, and opportunities that we are all surrounded by. This year I am especially grateful for all of the donors to our Indiegogo Campaign that allowed us to fund another round of Performance Grants. We
- [Monday Link Round Up: November 23, 2015](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-november-23-2015/) - Some news to start your week! It was announced earlier this year that the coming Cabrillo Festival will be Marin Alsop's last. NewMusicBox has a great piece on how the festival has evolved during Alsop's tenure - read more here. The Meet the Composer podcast, done by Nadia Sirota and presented by WQXR has presented fascinating conversations with
- [Peace for Paris](https://wophil.org/peace-for-paris/) - As the world mourns the tragedy in Paris - and denounces the violence that occurs every day throughout the world - let's pause and reflect. It seems only appropriate to share Lili Boulanger's Pie Jesu as conducted by her sister, Nadia Boulanger.
- [Concerts Coast to Coast](https://wophil.org/concerts-coast-to-coast/) - There is another great weekend of concerts to look forward to - and music by women composers to be heard from Massachusetts and California! First to be heard this weekend is Cappella Clausura, winner of a 2014 Performance Grant. From their website: Cappella Clausura was founded by Amelia LeClair in 2004 to research, study and perform
- [Negin Khpolwak: Afghanistan's First Female Conductor](https://wophil.org/negin-khpolwak-afghanistans-first-female-conductor/) - As we continue to receive devastating news as a result of the violence in the Middle East, it was wonderfully heartwarming and reassuring to read the BBC News story of Negin Khpolwak. She is only 17 years old but already has big talent - and big ambitions. Khpolwak, who was interviewed by Shaimaa Khalil, shared
- [Monday Link Round Up: November 9, 2015](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-november-9-2015/) - Some links to start the week! Louise Farrenc is BBC Radio 3's Composer of the Week! Listen to the radio show below! I also missed in sharing that BBC Radio 3 also featured Vítězslava Kaprálová as Composer of the Week earlier in October. Jessica Duchen wrote an opinion piece at Classical Music Magazine about the role of
- [Eskin Plays Beach in Maine](https://wophil.org/eskin-plays-beach-in-maine/) - We were delighted to feature Virginia Eskin's review on the new book about the Bauer sisters (in case you missed it, you can find it here) -- and now we are delighted that she will be continuing to advocate for women composers in concert next weekend! The Augusta (ME) Symphony Orchestra is nonprofit symphony with volunteer amateur
- [Upcoming Premieres in Seattle](https://wophil.org/upcoming-premieres-in-seattle/) - I am late in congratulating the Saratoga Chamber Orchestra of Whidbey Island in their performance of Lili Boulanger's D'un matin de printemps and D'un sir triste. We at WPA were so thrilled to help fund this performance of works by such a talented and, sadly, short lived composer though a 2014 Performance Grant. The concert took place October 24 with conductor Anna
- [Monday Link Round Up: November 2, 2015](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-november-2-2015/) - Catch up on the news from the weekend: The Guardian asked composer Anna Clyne (among others) to put together a Classical Music for Beginners list. She includes works by Kaija Saariaho and Caroline Shaw - read, and listen, here. NPR did a great piece on the life and work of Jazz organist Shirley Scott. Watch
- [Hartford Concert Inspires!](https://wophil.org/hartford-concert-inspires/) - The Women Composers Festival of Hartford (WCFH) is an indomitable event that has been taking place in March for fifteen years. Composers, musicians and scholars come together to create this Festival, and on Friday October 26, 2015, their Board of Directors organized a concert as a fundraising event, which also served to remind everyone about
- [Monday Link Round Up: October 26, 2015](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-october-26-2015/) - Some links to start your week: Earlier this month Kaija Saariaho was interviewed by the San Francisco Classical Voice discussing her role not only as a composer, but as an educator. Read the full interview here. Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra has been appointed the first music director of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in
- [Moving Forward!! (Yes, we ARE moving forward!)](https://wophil.org/moving-forward-yes-we-are-moving-forward/) - Any classical music enthusiast is beyond tired of hearing about the "death" of the genre (a term that has been rightly refuted). However, we can't deny that the classical music community is not as flourishing as it once was, and that musicians, conductors, and administrators need to look to making changes. Exactly what those changes
- [Happenin' in Hartford!](https://wophil.org/happenin-in-hartford/) - It's all happenin' in Hartford, CT! Friday, Oct. 23, the Women Composers Festival of Hartford presents this concert, Love, Motherhood, and the Female Gaze, as part of their fundraising campaign for their annual Festival. They are fundraising for the Festival and will also accept bags of gently used clothing, accessories, books, and small household items on
- [Monday Link Round Up: October 19, 2015](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-october-19-2015/) - Some news to start your week! As we talk about inclusiveness of women, we must also address topics of race. Over the summer the Metropolitan Opera decided to ban the use of blackface in performances of Otello. This week Anne Midgette of The Washington Post spoke to several opera singers about the practice and the presence
- [Listening to Women Online](https://wophil.org/listening-to-women-online/) - We are thrilled to have received so many applications for the 2015 Performance Grant! It only takes a quick glance to get excited about the innovative, engaging, and out-of-the-box programming that so many professional, community, and youth ensembles have planned for the future! As we send the applications off to our panel of judges for
- [Monday Link Round Up: October 12, 2015](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-october-12-2015/) - Some links to start your week! WPA President was a guest blogger over at Song of the Lark. Read her thoughts on the current state of classical programming, and what can be done to change it here. A bit delayed - but I just stumbled upon Richard Brody's profile of jazz composer Mary Lou Williams in The
- [2015-2016 Season Highlights](https://wophil.org/2015-2016-season-highlights/) - The 2015-2016 concert season is now underway for ensembles across the United States - which means it's also time to take a look at the orchestral repertoire that is being performed. As we wait for the official repertoire reports from the League of American Orchestras (which, unfortunately, will be a while - the last available reports
- [Monday Link Round Up: October 5, 2015](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-october-5-2015/) - Some news to start your week! Welcome to October - and a new quiz from Into the Light Radio! Have a listen and enter for a chance to win a CD of orchestral works by women composers. The Guardian has a review of a new recording of songs collected by King Henry VIII's most famous wife,
- [Featured Guest Blog: Maria Noriega Rachwal on the Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra](https://wophil.org/featured-guest-blog-maria-noriega/) - Today we are delighted to feature the work of Maria Noriega Rachwal, a music teacher and musicologist living in Toronto, Ontario. She lectures widely on women in music and has written articles on the subject for professional organizations. Her work on the Montreal Women’s Symphony Orchestra was featured on the CBC Radio documentary, “It Wasn’t Tea
- [The Life and Work of Meredith Monk](https://wophil.org/the-life-and-work-of-meredith-monk/) - Meredith Monk is one of the most recognized - and recognizable - American composers working today. Her work is acclaimed, and unorthodox. Recognition for her achievements have included commissions, residencies, and numerous awards - now including the National Medal of Arts. From the National Endowment for the Arts website, Monk was honored: for her contributions as
- [Monday Link Round Up: September 28, 2015](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-september-28-2015/) - Some news to start your week! NPR spoke with Pulitzer Prize winning composer Julia Wolfe discussing the winning work, Anthracite Fields, upon the release of the recording. The conversation covers Wolfe's inspiration and compositional process Read more here or listen below: Fiona Maddocks reviewed a new recording of works by Sally Beamish. Featured works are The Singing
- [Featured Guest Blogger: Katelyn Clark](https://wophil.org/featured-guest-blogger-katelyn-clark/) - Today's Featured Guest Blogger is Canadian harpsichordist Katelyn Clark. Clark specializes in the performance of historical repertoire and experimental music on early keyboard instruments. Currently, her research focuses on the London pianoforte school and the careers of late Enlightenment musicians. Clark has been an artist in residence at the Banff Centre, NES in Iceland, Artscape on
- [Women's Work](https://wophil.org/womens-work/) - As I alluded to on Friday, there has been a lot of conversation as of late about the role of women in music - and the value of their work. After Jessy McCabe successfully instigated change to her school music curriculum to include women composers there were mixed responses from the wider classical music community. Though
- [Monday Link Round Up: September 21, 2015](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-september-21-2015/) - What you need to know as you start your week! After 25 years at the helm, Marin Alsop is stepping down as musical director of the Cabrillo Festival after the 2016 season. Stay tuned to see who may fill these very large shoes for the 2017 season, and what adventurous programming Alsop has in store for her
- [Honoring Women's Work](https://wophil.org/honoring-womens-work/) - The work of Women's Philharmonic Advocacy is to recognize and honor the work of historic and contemporary women composers, encourage performances of their works. That the work of women composers has been left out of the canon because it simply isn't "good" is a laughable assertion. It was ridiculous when it was suggested in the
- [Monday Link Round Up: September 14, 2015](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-september-14-2015/) - There was a lot of great news over the weekend - time to catch up for the week ahead! Great news for Jessy McCabe and everyone who signed the Change.org petition to include works by women composers in the Edexcel curriculum - change is coming! McCabe received a personal apology from Mark Anderson, Managing Director
- [Princeton Symphony Season Celebrates Women](https://wophil.org/princeton-symphony-season-celebrates-women/) - The 2015-2016 orchestral season is already upon us! As we get caught up with the season offerings and who is, and who isn't, programming works by women this season, let's start off with a bang - the Princeton Symphony Orchestra is featuring at least one work by a woman composer in four out of five concerts
- [Monday Link Round Up: September 7, 2015](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-august-7-2015/) - Happy Labor Day, everyone! As we pause to reflect on the history of American workers - let's take some time to be grateful for women's work in music in particular. In honor of again conducting the final night of the BBC Proms, Marin Alsop was interviewed by The Guardian - she talks about being the first
- [Happy Birthday, Amy Beach!](https://wophil.org/happy-birthday-amy-beach-3/) - Saturday (September 5) marks the 148th birthday of American composer Amy Beach. She is remembered today as being the first American woman to achieve acclaim as a symphonist. Her first (and only symphony), which was subtitled "Gaelic", was premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1896. However, her achievements as a composer, performer, and educator are
- [Diverse Music Education](https://wophil.org/diverse-music-education/) - Welcome to September - and back to classes for students across the country! As educators finalize syllabi and students return practicing after a summer hiatus, we applaud the efforts being made by all teachers - whether classroom instructors or private lesson teachers - to introduce their students to a diverse and inclusive sample from the
- [Monday Link Round Up: August 31, 2015](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-august-31-2014/) - Some links to start your week: The Peabody Conservatory has announced that Marin Alsop will be taking over as Director of Graduate Conducting. A fantastic appointment! Read the press release here. We've been keeping up with the Change.org petition started by 17 year old Jessy McCabe to include women in her school curriculum. The Independent continued
- [Contemporary Symphonies](https://wophil.org/contemporary-symphonies/) - The current issue of The New Yorker includes a column by Alex Ross in which he explores the ways in which the symphony has transformed in new music. As one would expect, it covered the most familiar names with only a few surprises (including Gloria Coates who, to date, has written 15 symphonies). Ross saved his more
- [California Premiere of Street Requiem](https://wophil.org/california-premiere-of-street-requiem/) - We wrote about this fantastic project in January when the work received its U.S. Premiere. The Cantata,which addressed topics of homelessness and street violence, is an impressive undertaking and seemingly builds community wherever it is presented. As we saw earlier this year, the work, which requires an orchestra and several choirs, as well as soloists, becomes
- [Written by Mrs. Bach](https://wophil.org/written-by-mrs-bach/) - The long awaited, and much debated, documentary that investigates the role of Anna Magdalena Bach as not only wife but collaborator and, most controversially, composer of the Cello Suites, is now available online. The evidence uncovered and explored by musicologist Martin Jarvis has raised eyebrows, and ruffled feathers, among classical musicians and music enthusiasts around the world. (We've
- [Announcing the 2015 Performance Grants](https://wophil.org/announcing-the-2015-performance-grants/) - As we strive to encourage better representation for works by women in concert halls and classrooms, we acknowledge that there are continued obstacles that educators, administrations, and ensembles need to overcome - including financial barriers. For this reason we at Women's Philharmonic Advocacy are thrilled to once again offer Performance Grants in support of inclusive and
- [Monday Link Round Up: August 24, 2015](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-august-24-2015/) - Start the week off right with some fresh links: We wrote last week about Jessy McCabe, the student in London who is petitioning for the school curriculum and exams to include works by women. Her petition is closing in on 2,500 signatures, and there is still time to add yours! Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir has received
- [Celebrating 75 Years at Tanglewood](https://wophil.org/celebrating-75-years-at-tanglewood/) - The annual Tanglewood Festival hosts thousands of concert goers each year, drawn to the beautiful scenery and amazing music at the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer home. Over the past 75 years, the Tanglewood Music Center has also drawn devotees annually - but as students and faculty, eager to learn, engage, and explore a range of established classics
- [A Call to Action](https://wophil.org/a-call-to-action/) - This past year has brought about important conversations about women's work in music, and many highly publicized opportunities for the public at large to become more informed and engaged with often-neglected music. Laura Seddon mentioned in her guest blog that though well-intentioned, these efforts often fall far short of real and lasting change. But it
- [Monday Link Round Up: August 17, 2015](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-august-17-2015/) - The dog days of summer means a slow news week, but here are a few links to catch up on as you start your week: Alex Ross shared a recording of Liza Lim's Invisibility at his blog, The Rest is Noise, perhaps in response to Lim's own announcement of the release of two new
- [Works by Women at Cabrillo Festival](https://wophil.org/works-by-women-at-cabrillo-festival/) - The Cabrillo Festival has championed new music since it was founded in the 1960's. Under the leadership of Marin Alsop, who has directed the festival since 1992, the annual summer event has delighted new music enthusiasts with exciting concerts, commissions, and premieres. The 2015 Festival, which began last weekend, will highlight the work of several important and increasingly-heard
- [New Associate Conductor for LA Phil](https://wophil.org/new-associate-conductor-for-la-phil/) - The Los Angeles Philharmonic has announced that Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla has been promoted from Assistant Conductor to Associate Conductor. The LA Times has the story here. Gražinytė-Tyla, Lithuanian by birth, was a Dudamel Fellow in the 2012-2013 season, after already making a name for herself by winning international conducting awards. Her continued rise shouldn't be shocking
- [Monday Link Round Up: August 10, 2015](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-august-10-2015/) - Some stories and links to start your week: Test your knowledge with the monthly quiz sponsored by Into the Light Radio. The first person to correctly name the composer and piece will win an orchestral sampler CD from WPA! Find the quiz here. Evelyn Glennie, who is performing at the BBC Proms, was interviewed by The
- [New Recordings of Bacewicz String Quartets](https://wophil.org/new-recordings-of-bacewicz-string-quartets/) - Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969) was a prolific Polish composer, and only the second female Polish woman to receive recognition for her work in composition. Not surprisingly, much of her music (including several symphonies and seven concerti featuring the violin) are forgotten in the repertoire. We can take heart that the Lutoslawski Quartet is working to correct that. The ensemble has
- [NPR Covers "Cold Mountain"](https://wophil.org/npr-covers-cold-mountain/) - NPR's Morning Edition covered Jennifer Higdon's new opera, Cold Mountain. The work, which has been in development for over two years, premiered last weekend to a sold out audience in Santa Fe. It will be heard in Philadelphia later this year. Paul Ingles interviewed Higdon and discussed the long process and the choices she needed to make along
- [Monday Link Roundup: August 3](https://wophil.org/monday-link-roundup-august-3/) - Some news to start the week: Anna Meredith's Smatter Hauler, a BBC Commission, received its World Premiere at The Proms - you can listen to a recording of the performance online here. Alex Ross attended a performance of The Wreckers and wrote about it for The New Yorker. One great opera event follows another this summer with the
- [Tansey Davies Interview](https://wophil.org/tansey-davies-interview/) - British composer Tansey Davies, who will have a new work performed at the BBC Proms this year, was interviewed by Sinfini Music. Davies work is an eclectic mix of traditional and contemporary approaches to music, and has received much well-deserved attention in recent years. In addition to the work being heard at the Proms in
- [Featured Guest Blogger: Amy Zigler reviews "The Wreckers"](https://wophil.org/featured-guest-blogger-amy-zigler-reviews-the-wreckers/) - Dr. Amy Zigler is Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Salem College in Winston-Salem, NC. She specializes in music of the 19th and 20th centuries, with a focus on the cultural study of chamber music, the social history of music in Germany and Great Britain, and the study of gender and sexuality in music. She holds
- [Amy Beach at Toronto Summer Music](https://wophil.org/amy-beach-at-toronto-summer-music/) - There will be a great treat tonight for classical music lovers attending the Toronto Summer Music Festival - a performance of Amy Beach's Piano Quintet in F-Sharp Minor, op. 67. Tickets and more information about the concert this evening is available here. This rarely heard work is a gem from Beach's oeuvre. Musicologist Jane Troy
- [Monday Link Roundup: July 27, 2015](https://wophil.org/monday-link-roundup-july-27-2015/) - Start your week right by getting caught up on the news: WPA President Liane Curtis was able to attend a performance of Ethel Smyth's The Wreckers at Bard Summerscape. Read her review here. And, in case you missed it, listen to the story about The Wreckers broadcast on NPR's All Things Considered. Conductor Susanna Mälkki, who will soon be
- [The Wreckers: An Opera for our Time](https://wophil.org/wreckers/) - Ethel Smyth's “The Wreckers” (1906) will receive its’ first staged US performance Friday night (July 24) at Bard Summerscape (total of 5 performances). NPR’s All Things Considered aired a feature (available here) about this historic performance (Musicologist Elizabeth Wood and Music Director Leon Botstein were interviewed). The first sentence of Music Director Leon Bottstein’s program note is
- [Women at the 2015 Proms](https://wophil.org/women-at-the-2015-proms/) - The 2015 Proms kicked off on Friday, July 17 with another full lineup of fabulous and engaging concerts ahead. The role of women in music has been a hot topic in the London music scene this year, stemming largely from the popularity and publicity of BBC Radio 3's women-only programming surrounding International Women's Day.
- [Monday Link Roundup: July 20, 2015](https://wophil.org/monday-link-roundup-july-20/) - Some news to peruse as you start your week! The New York Times shared that due to overwhelming interest for Cold Mountain, the first opera by Jennifer Higdon, another performance has been added. The Santa Fe Opera will be giving the wold premiere the work on Thursday - more info here. There is a new initiative in
- [The Dream Unfinished - Symphonic Benefit for Civil Rights](https://wophil.org/the-dream-unfinished/) - Many recent events have underscored the continued presence of racism in the United States, with instances of racially motivated violence make headlines from Ferguson to Baltimore to Charleston to New York City. Throughout the country these issues are being debated and calls to action are being made. Today, Friday July 17, prominent voices of the classical music
- [Women-Only Conducting Workshops with Alice Farnham](https://wophil.org/new-women-only-conducting-course/) - It is hard to not be encouraged and inspired by the recent attention and action around the lack of opportunities for women conductors. The momentum continues with the announcement that Alice Farnham will expand the workshop series she began in 2014 to provide even more meaningful and enriching opportunities for young women. After an interview
- [Monday Link Roundup: July 13, 2015](https://wophil.org/monday-link-roundup-july-13-2015/) - Some news stories to pay attention to as the week begins: NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday provided a profile of the women's barbershop society, Sweet Adelines, now celebrating its 70th year. Read (and listen) more here. Not classical music, but interesting nonetheless: a record store in Oregon, M'Lady's Records, which describes itself as "radical[ly] feminist and willfully
- [Iceland Symphony Orchestra Celebrates Women Composers](https://wophil.org/iceland-symphony-orchestra-celebrates-women-composers/) - Iceland is celebrating the 100th anniversary of women's right to vote - and in honor of the occasion the Iceland Symphony Orchestra presented a concert June 11 featuring the works of contemporary and historic women composers. The program, which was wonderfully titled "Titans and Trailblazers", included works by Anna Thorvaldsdottir (who name also appears as Þorvaldsdóttir), who
- [New Opera by Anne LeBaron](https://wophil.org/new-opera-by-anne-lebaron/) - Award winning composer Anne LeBaron has a new opera exploring the micro-tonality of Harry Partch and the mind altering effects of drugs. The work is called LSD: The Opera, and several new scenes from the work are being performed this week in Los Angeles. For more information about dates, times, and tickets, see the story on LA Weekly. LeBaron explains
- [Monday Link Round Up: June 22](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-june-22/) - Some stories that caught our eye over the weekend: Composers Now has announced that Jin Hi Kim and Peter Van Zandt Lane have been awarded the second annual Composers Now Creative Residencies. The residencies will take place in November 2015 and each composer will work on a project of their choosing. Read more about Jin
- [2015 Summer Festivals](https://wophil.org/2015-summer-festivals/) - Summer is official upon us - and so, too, is the summer festival season. Here are some highlights of works by women that can be heard this year. The Aspen Music Festival will include works by Nina C. Young (winner of the 2014 Jacob Druckman Prize), Judith Shatin, Jennifer Higdon, Shulamit Ran, and Galina Ustvolskaya. Bard SummerScape
- [Happy Birthday to Mildred Hill](https://wophil.org/happy-birthday-to-mildred-hill/) - Happy Birthday to Mildred Hill, born June 27, 1859. Though her name isn't familiar, Mildred Hill (1859-1916) composed what is arguably the most popular and recognizable melody sung today. A musicologist, educator, and songwriter, Hill, along with her sister, Patty, composed a simple melody for teachers to use when welcoming their students to the
- [Monday Link Round Up: June 29](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-june-29/) - Some news worth reading: Alex Ross wrote about the 2015 Ojai Music Festival, which took place earlier in June, in the July 6 edition of The New Yorker. Featured composers at this year's festival included Anna Thorvaldsdottir. The International Contemporary Ensemble performed “In the Light of Air." Read more here. Orchestra Iowa has hired a new concertmaster. Award winning violinist
- [Grieving and healing: Julia Perry's "Stabat Mater"](https://wophil.org/julia-perrys-stabat-mater/) - The U.S. continues to mourn the massacre of nine African Americans in a South Carolina church. At the Rev. Clementa Pinckney’s funeral service, President Barack Obama drew on the healing power of words melded with music, as he sang “Amazing Grace.” This was a remarkable moment – I can’t remember another President turning to music
- [Jessica Gethin Wins Conducting Award](https://wophil.org/jessica-gethin-wins-conducting-award/) - Australian conductor Jessica Gethin is the 2015 winner of the Brian Stacey Emerging Conductor Award. From the press release: The annual awards, established in 2002, recognise an Australian conductor, early in their professional career, who shows significant promise and skill. Gethin is the fourth woman to receive the award (prior winners were Kellie Dickerson, 2002;
- [Celebrate July 4th With "Made in America"](https://wophil.org/celebrating-july-4th-with-made-in-america/) - As those of us in the U.S. get the grill and lawn chairs ready to celebrate the 4th of July, why not take a few minutes to listen to some patriotic music? American composer Joan Tower was approached about completing a new work in 2001 - but it wasn't a typical commission. The work was made
- [Summer with the Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra](https://wophil.org/summer-with-the-lsco/) - That Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra has an exciting summer season of concerts planned is no surprise - after all, their tagline is: "Performing diverse music for chamber orchestra." That diversity is represented in creative and innovative programming that shares with their audiences works that are not typically heard. The LSCO, which is now in it's 29th
- [Amy Beach at Bar Harbor Music Festival](https://wophil.org/amy-beach-at-bar-harbor-music-festival/) - This year celebrates the 49th season of the Bar Harbor Music Festival. The 2015 season, which runs from June 28 to July 26, includes a huge variety of music styles with something to inspire virtually any concertgoer. Their innovative and inclusive programming of works by women composers was recognized with a 2014 Performance Grant. The
- [Kaija Saariaho on Sexism in Classical Music](https://wophil.org/kaija-saariaho-on-sexism-in-classical-music/) - "In reading more studies about our recent history in this matter, I have understood that the situation is not slowly getting better, but that the improvements seem to have stopped a while ago. In politics, economy, research and culture in general, women still have to find their place." The composer Kaija Saariaho on sexism in
- [Launching 32 Composers You Need to Know, with Florence Price!](https://wophil.org/launching-32-composers/) - We are kicking off our Indiegogo campaign with a daily blog series: 32 Composers You Need to Know! This is in honor of Women's History Month (which is a federally observed celebration; here is last year's Presidential declaration). But of course it is still February—African-American History month! SO it's a great time to bring up
- [Music by Florence Price Featured by the Chicago Symphony and Others:  A Conversation with Conductor Mei-Ann Chen](https://wophil.org/mei-ann-chen-on-florence-price/) - Mei-Ann Chen is Music Director of the Memphis Symphony and the Chicago Sinfonietta. Earlier this year she guest-conducted with the San Diego Symphony, and on May 9 she made her subscription debut with the Chicago Symphony. This is four orchestras and their audiences to whom she has introduced the music of Florence Price. A few
- [Making Waves with the <i>Mississippi River</i> Suite: Mei Ann Chen Brings Florence Price's Music to Chicago Symphony](https://wophil.org/mississippi-river-suite/) - Acclaimed conductor Mei-Ann Chen is just completing her first year as Music Director of the Chicago Sinfonietta. And Thursday she made her debut as a guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's subscription series. She made quite a "splash" with Florence Price's Mississippi River Suite—the press has been filled with praise for the inspired leadership she brings to this
- [Must-Listen Radio: WQXR's <i>Price of Admission</i>](https://wophil.org/must-listen-radio-wqxrs-price-of-admission/) - 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, the program is chock-a-block with excerpts of Price's symphonic compositions, as well as
- [Florence Price and the Chicago Symphony Are Reunited—by Mei-Ann Chen](https://wophil.org/florence-price-and-the-chicago-symphony-are-reunited-by-mei-ann-chen/) - 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 the Memphis Symphony and the Chicago Sinfonietta performed Price's The Oak as part
- [New Recording of Bach Cello Suites](https://wophil.org/new-recording-of-bach-cello-suites/) - It wasn't that long ago that the question of authorship for the Cello Suites - and the idea that they were written not by Bach but (gasp!) his wife - stirred up musicologists, music journalists, and any music enthusiast with their two cents to add to the conversation. (We wrote about it here.) And while
- [Monday Link Round Up: June 15](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-june-15/) - Here are some top stories from over the weekend: Anne Midgette of the Washington Post has a great profile of Kim Pensinger Witman, Senior Director of The Wolf Trap Opera and classical programming at Wolf Trap. You can also follow Witman's blog here. June is Black Music Month and Bitch Magazine is helping readers celebrate - including this list
- [Premieres of Karpman and Saariaho](https://wophil.org/premieres-of-karpman-and-saariaho/) - We're looking forward to two concerts happening this Thursday from 2014 Performance Grant winners, each of which features a premiere. The Pacific Symphony will be offering the World Premiere of Siren Songs by Laura Karpman. Program notes for the concert are available online, and you can also listen to a concert preview with a sampling of Karpman's work:
- [Monday Link Round Up: June 8](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up-june-8/) - Some top stories from over the weekend: We wrote about Judith Weir's new song cycle last week, which premiered on Saturday. The Guardian and The Telegraph each have reviews of the work which was decidedly well received. You can also read a review of a new album of Weir's choral music, titled Storm. The Dallas Opera's
- [Portrait of the Composer as a Young Woman](https://wophil.org/portrait-of-the-composer-as-a-young-woman/) - As noted earlier, I'm performing in the BARS Concert June 6. I've written the program notes for the concert, and here they are! The three pieces on our program today are linked, as our title suggests, by all being composed when their creators were young women, and, as works that served to launch these composers into the world as
- [World Premiere of Weir](https://wophil.org/world-premiere-of-weir/) - We are excited for the World Premiere of Master of Queen's Music Judith Weir's new song cycle taking place this weekend in London. Mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly and the Aurora Orchestra will present Good Morning, Midnight on June 6. The work was commissioned by Wigmore Hall and features poetry by Emily Dickinson, Kathleen Jamie, Charles Simic, and
- [Monday Link Round Up](https://wophil.org/monday-link-round-up/) - We've rounded up some links of interest from over the weekend. Conductor JoAnn Falletta has renewed her contract with the Buffalo Philharmonic for another six years. Falletta, who was also conductor of The Women's Philharmonic (1986-1997), currently also leads the Virginia Symphony. Read the story here. NewMusicBox has an interview with Melinda Wagner. The interview with
- [Chicago Symphony Orchestra Premieres Clyne](https://wophil.org/chicago-symphony-orchestra-premieres-clyne/) - Anna Clyne, by all accounts, appears to be one of the hardest working young composers today. Born in London, and a former student of Pulitzer Prize winner Julia Wolfe, her works have been commissioned across the country and have met high praise - including a Grammy nomination. Clyne is also serving with Mason Bates as the current Mead composers-in-residence
- [WPA President as Orchestral Cellist](https://wophil.org/wpa-president-as-orchestral-cellist/) - "I’d like to play in that,” was my immediate reaction on hearing about the program planned for June 6, 2015, by the Bay Area Rainbow Symphony in San Francisco. I’d been communicating with BARS about how to obtain the score and parts for Ethel Smyth’s monumental Serenade of 1889. Part of WPA’s work is to
- [Saariaho Premiere at Library of Congress](https://wophil.org/saariaho-premiere-at-library-of-congress/) - Kaija Saariaho has another new work being premiered this week. The Library of Congress has co-commissioned Light and Matter, a new work for piano trio, which will be premiered Friday, May 22. The same concert will also hear Saariaho's Aure for violin and piano. For those of us who aren't able to attend in person, program notes for
- [Featured Guest Blogger: Laura Seddon](https://wophil.org/featured-guest-blogger-laura-seddon/) - Today's Featured Guest Blogger is Dr. Laura Seddon. A musicologist working in the UK and author of British Women Composers and Instrumental Chamber Music in the Early Twentieth Century published by Ashgate, Dr. Seddon is the creative director of Contemporary Connections – a grassroots feminist music- commissioning organisation – started (and remaining) around her kitchen table.
- [News Round Up](https://wophil.org/news-round-up/) - Here are some headlines worth paying attention to: Though the LA Philharmonic didn't promote Saariaho's world premiere, it received an excellent review in the LA Times: The performance was strong. Dudamel remained constantly attuned to Saariaho's vastly changeable instrumental colors, a cosmic sonic background for Finley, who handled each song with operatic intensity, part of a
- [World Premiere of Saariaho](https://wophil.org/world-premiere-of-saariaho/) - The Los Angeles Philharmonic will be giving the World Premiere of a new commission by Kaija Saariaho. True Fire is written for orchestra and solo baritone and will be performed at concerts May 14-17. The composer says this about the work: This piece has been growing in my mind for several years; the music was
- [Orchestra of St. Luke's Premieres Maria Chavez](https://wophil.org/orchestra-of-st-lukes-premieres-maria-chavez/) - Winner of a 2014 Performance Grant, Orchestra of St. Luke's is collaborating with Brooklyn-based composer and sound artist Maria Chavez for an exciting weekend of events. Tonight (May 8) at 7:30 Chavez will be discussing her process in composing her new work, commissioned by Orchestra of St. Lukes, NYC Sonic Scores, 2015. The event will also
- [Remembering Margaret Garwood](https://wophil.org/remembering-margaret-garwood/) - Philadelphia based composer Margaret Garwood has died at the age of 88. David Patrick Sterns of The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote a thoughtful remembrance. She was interviewed by WRTI and profiled in The Philadelphia Inquirer in 2010, shortly before the premiere of her opera, The Scarlet Letter. Her work is available through Hildegard Publishing. Here is an excerpt from The Scarlet Letter which was
- [Happy Birthday, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich!](https://wophil.org/happy-birthday-ellen-taaffe-zwilich/) - Today is the birthday of internationally acclaimed American composer, and the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for music, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. Liane Curtis and I had the pleasure of meeting Ellen at the 2014 Society for American Music Conference where her tremendous work in composition and education was honored and she was inducted as an
- [ICYMI: Alan Gilbert on the Future of Orchestras](https://wophil.org/icymi-alan-gilbert-on-the-future-of-orchestras/) - In case you missed it, Alan Gilbert gave a talk to the Royal Philharmonic Society about the future of orchestras which is worth the attention of all classical music enthusiasts. In his time at the New York Philharmonic Gilbert has ruffled feathers with his innovative approaches to programming, bucking against the status quo. In fact,
- [Composers to Know: Laura Pettigrew](https://wophil.org/composers-to-know-laura-pettigrew/) - Canadian composer Laura Pettigrew is internationally recognized for her compositions - which include works for voice, large ensemble, chamber ensembles, and film. Pettigrew is also actively involved several organizations working for equal representation for women's work in music. From her biography: As a woman composer Laura is an avid supporter of the Adkins Chiti Foundation, Donne
- [World Premieres in Chicago](https://wophil.org/world-premieres-in-chicago/) - The Chicago Composers Orchestra is partnering with the Chicago Composers' Consortium, whose joint venture was awarded a 2014 Performance Grant, for an exciting concert featuring premieres by four up and coming women composers. Works include the Chicago premiere of Waking Dream (2009) by Laura Schwendinger and Dreams of Summer by Elizabeth Start, and the world premiere of Parallel Digressions by Martha
- [Featured Guest Blog: Louise Talma (Part II!)](https://wophil.org/featured-guest-blog-louise-talma-part-ii/) - Featured Guest Blogger: Kendra Preston Leonard Today we feature the second installment in our Featured Guest Blogger series, again focusing on the work of Kendra Preston Leonard and her new book on Lousie Talma. Leonard is a musicologist whose work focuses on women and music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; music and screen history, and music
- [Julia Wolfe Wins Pulitzer](https://wophil.org/julia-wolfe-wins-pulitzer/) - Congratulations to Julia Wolfe on winning the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Anthracite Fields. The piece is an oratorio inspired and based on the lives of Pennsylvania coal miners. It was commissioned by the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia. Their website is full of information about the piece, the compositional process - which included extensive research, as well as the
- [Recognizing Operas by Women](https://wophil.org/recognizing-operas-by-women/) - Last week it was announced that Opera America will be awarding Discovery Grants to seven women composers in support of the development of their operas. The Opera Grants for Female Composers program is funded by The Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation, which also funds the EarShot Grants. The 2015 winners are: Kitty Brazelton - The Art of Memory Laura
- [Tania León at Harvard](https://wophil.org/tania-leon-at-harvard/) - Composer Tania León will be at Harvard TODAY at 4:00 p.m. for a conversation about her work and music. León will be discussing many aspects of her career including her work in composition, conducting, teaching, and arts leadership. The event is free and open to the public. More information here. This weekend the Harvard University Music
- [Mount Holyoke Plays Hopekirk](https://wophil.org/mount-holyoke-plays-hopekirk/) - The Mount Holyoke Symphony Orchestra, winner of a 2014 Performance Grant, will have their final concert of the season on Friday, April 17 featuring Helen Hopekirk's Concertstück. Helen Hopekirk (1856-1945) was a Scottish pianist and composer who immigrated to the United States in 1897 when she accepted an invitation to teach at the New England Conservatory.
- [IAWM 2015 Congress](https://wophil.org/iawm-2015-congress/) - The International Alliance for Women in Music is holding their Congress this week in an exciting and wonderfully inclusive and accessible online format. The 20th Anniversary Congress is completely online with live-streamed concerts, papers, and lecture-recitals. Anyone can access the material for free - but attendees are asked to register. The events will be happening all week
- [Salem Chamber Orchestra Performs Grzesik](https://wophil.org/salem-chamber-orchestra-performs-grzesik/) - The Salem Chamber Orchestra, winner of a 2014 Performance Grant, will feature the work of Polish composer Ashia Grzesik on their performance on Sunday, April 12. Grzesik performs with The Bison Rouge, exploring a range of musical genres: Ashia’s songs and compositions, written and sung with the cello, loop station, ukulele, effects, and vocals, reflect
- [Allentown Symphony Orchestra World Premiere](https://wophil.org/allentown-symphony-orchestra-world-premiere/) - The Allentown Symphony Orchestra, winner of a 2014 Performance Grant, will be giving the World Premiere of Ode to Joy Fanfare by Diane Wittry on Saturday, April 11. The work was written to precede Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Wittry has this to say about the work: It's the melody that everyone who attends the concert wants to
- [American Composers Orchestra World Premiere](https://wophil.org/american-composers-orchestra-world-premiere/) - The American Composers Orchestra, winner of a 2014 Performance Grant, will feature the world premiere of Sanctum by Courtney Bryan on Thursday, April 9. Bryan, who just completed her DMA in composition at Columbia, is an eclectic musician and composer, exploring different genres and styles of music - including jazz. She was recently interviewed at All About Jazz.
- [Featured Guest Blog: Discovering Louise Talma’s First Orchestral Works](https://wophil.org/louise-talmas-orchestral-works/) - Featured Guest Blogger: Kendra Preston Leonard We are happy to be launching a new series of guest bloggers. Leonard's book Louise Talma: A Life in Composition (Ashgate) was published last year and caught our attention, so we are honored to have her as our first "FGB." A musicologist whose work focuses on women and music in the twentieth and
- [Women on the Radio](https://wophil.org/women-on-the-radio/) - A lot has been made of the attention that BBC Radio 3 has given to women composers surrounding International Women's Day. But let's not forget the wonderful radio hosts that devote time to women composers on a weekly basis and not just in honor of a particular day, or one month, out of the year.
- [Update: Marin Alsop at Harvard](https://wophil.org/marin-alsop-at-harvard/) - Update: The Harvard Review reports on the conversation with Alsop, as she received the distinguished Luise Vosgerchian Teaching Award Original post: Internationally acclaimed conductor Marin Alsop will be at Harvard University on March 24 to receive the Luise Vosgerchian Teaching Award. That Alsop is being honored is no surprise. Her innovative programming, educational and outreach efforts
- [Women Composers on Social Media](https://wophil.org/women-composers-on-social-media/) - With the flurry of activity surrounding Women's History Month and International Women's Day, I've come across some excellent and affirming acknowledgements of women's work in music in some unexpected places. There are many inspired and wonderfully intentioned people working to spread the word about women's work in music across what are largely social media platforms. For example:
- [Classical Music Moonlighters](https://wophil.org/classical-music-moonlighters/) - The Guardian has a great piece up highlighting "Classical Music Moonlighters". The list of composers who worked on music after they finished their day jobs includes: Ethel Smyth (who was a composer first and turned to writing books - including a multi-volume autobiography - later in life) St. Hildegard of Bingen (abbess, mystic, healer, author,
- [Women's History Month Link Round Up](https://wophil.org/womens-history-link-round-up/) - It seems as though my newsfeed has been full of stories related to women and music in recent days. The flurry of activity, almost entirely connected to Women's History Month - and the BBC Radio 3 devoting so much air time to women composers - has made for great reading over the past few weeks. Some highlights
- [Happy St. Patrick's Day!](https://wophil.org/happy-st-patricks-day/) - In honor of St. Patrick's Day - arguably, one of American's favorite holidays to celebrate - here is "Irish Love Song" by Margaret Ruthvan Lang. Lang was the first American woman to have an orchestral composition performed - her Dramatic Overture was performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1893. She went on to write
- [Indiegogo Campaign Launch!](https://wophil.org/indiegogo-campaign-launch/) - After an incredibly successful round of Performance Grant applications this past December, we are excited to offer these grants again this year! In order to do so, we need to raise $10,000, and are looking for your support! Visit our Indiegogo campaign site and make your tax-deductible donation today! This is the perfect
- [frauenkomponiert!](https://wophil.org/frauenkomponiert/) - We missed talking about an inspired concert that took place on March 8 - International Women's Day. Though you can find many concerts listed on the International Women's Day webpage, it is surprising to see how many classical concerts are being held in honor of women, but don't actually include any women composers. (London Arte
- [Chattanooga Symphony Plays Higdon](https://wophil.org/chattanooga-symphony-plays-higdon/) - The Chattanooga Symphony & Opera, winner of a 2014 Performance Grant, will be presenting Jennifer Higdon's Violin Concerto on Thursday, March 12. The Chattanoogan has an article about the performance. Truly unique to this concert is the work of concertmaster Holly Mulcahy, soloist in the concerto, asked a local bartender to create a cocktail based on
- [Georgia Tech SO Plays Hensel](https://wophil.org/georgia-tech-so-plays-hensel/) - The Georgia Tech Symphony Orchestra, winner of a 2014 Performance Grant, will be performing two works by women composers in their concert tonight! GTSO conductor, Chaowen Ting, has arranged Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's String Quartet for string orchestra - a great project to showcase the chamber music of Hensel while giving opportunities for students and audiences to
- [Lansing Symphony Performs Helms](https://wophil.org/lansing-symphony-performs-helms/) - The Lansing Symphony Orchestra, winner of a 2014 Performance Grant, will present Seven Ascents for Flute and Orchestra by Marjan Helms this weekend. Helms is the composer in residence at Michigan State University Community Music School and worked with LSO's principal flautist, Richard Sherman, in composing the work. It was commissioned and premiered by the Jackson Symphony last
- [Curtis Institute to Premiere Higdon](https://wophil.org/curtis-institute-to-premiere-higdon/) - The Curtis Institute of Music Chamber Orchestra, winner of a 2014 Performance Grant, is kicking off a national tour featuring with the World Premiere of a Viola Concerto by Jennifer Higdon. The first concert is Saturday, March 7 at the Library of Congress, who co-commissioned the work. More information about Saturday's event can be found here.
- [Community Women's Orchestra to Perform Hillary Tann](https://wophil.org/community-womens-orchestra-to-perform-hillary-tann/) - The Community Women's Orchestra, based in Oakland, CA, was begun as an offshoot of The Women's Philharmonic. It was established in 1985 by Nan Washburn and continues to flourish. From the start CWO has had a clear mission: The Community Women’s Orchestra provides a fun, welcoming environment to promote women in music. All of the 60+
- [Interview with Caroline Shaw](https://wophil.org/interview-with-caroline-shaw/) - New Music Box just posted a fabulous conversation with Pulitzer Prize winning composer Caroline Shaw. At the time she won the Pulitzer much was made about her age (she was only 30 - the youngest ever person to win) and her training, or lack thereof. You can listen to the award winning piece, Partita for 8
- [Solar Winds at Brandeis University](https://wophil.org/solar-winds-at-brandeis-university/) - This Saturday (February 28) Solar Winds will present a not-to-be missed concert at Brandeis University. This poster says it all: From their website: On February 28 at Brandeis University, Solar Winds will perform a concert of wind quintets composed entirely by women. The compositions are varied, entertaining, and musically significant. The concert opens with a brief and graceful
- [NEW DISCOVERIES of Florence Price's Music revealed in Arkansas Festival!!](https://wophil.org/discoveries-florence-price-music/) - The historic importance of Florence Price (1887–1953), as the first African American woman to have a Symphony performed by a major orchestra, has been recognized. However, while she had some success in her lifetime, after she died very little of her music remained the performing repertoire. A few of her songs were known -- after all she
- [Virginia Symphony Premieres Larsen](https://wophil.org/virginia-symphony-premieres-larsen/) - The Virginia Symphony Orchestra, winner of a 2014 Performance Grant, will give the World Premiere of a new version of Libby Larsen's Four on the Floor this weekend. Originally composed for violin, cello, double bass and piano, Larsen has re-orchestrated the work for string orchestra and piano. JoAnn Falletta, conductor of the Virginia Symphony, worked closely with Libby
- [Boulanger Premiere!](https://wophil.org/boulanger-premiere/) - I was thrilled to learn that a long-lost work by Lili Boulanger will finally receive its premiere on Thursday, February 26. The Royal College of Music will present the work at the Royal Festival Hall. The Philharmonia Orchestra's website provides more information as to its origin from scholar Caroline Potter: In her all too brief career,
- [Higdon in Philadelphia](https://wophil.org/higdon-in-philadelphia/) - Jennifer Higdon is one of the most recognized and sought-out composers today. She has won a Pulitzer Prize as well as a Grammy, is actively commissioned, and has already seen one premiere this year, will have another happening in just a few weeks, and her first opera will receive its highly anticipated premiere this summer.
- [New Recording of Clara Schumann](https://wophil.org/new-recording-of-clara-schumann/) - Internationally acclaimed pianist Imogen Cooper just released a new CD pairing the works of Robert and Clara Schumann. Geoffrey Norris, of The Telegraph, reviewed the CD highly, while also acknowledging the too-often-forgotten history: The situation today, however, is rather the reverse of what it was in their lifetime. Clara was the really famous one. When they travelled together,
- ["Ferocious Beauty" offers Powerful Discoveries](https://wophil.org/ferocious-beauty-offers-powerful-discoveries/) - Chamber Orchestra of Boston, directed by David Feltner, with Virginia Eskin, piano Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston February 6, 2009 It was an event of very rare importance – the first performance on the east coast of a remarkable work composed in 1939. Czech composer Viteslava Kapralova died at the age of 25 barely a
- [Women Composers Festival of Hartford](https://wophil.org/women-composers-festival-of-hartford/) - For the past fourteen years the Women Composers Festival of Hartford has been a champion for women's work in music. The annual event, this year being held March 4-8, features fabulous concerts and conversations about the historic and contemporary women composers. This year's event, which is quickly approaching, features Lisa Coons as composer-in-residence. The first
- [U.S. Premiere for Sylvie Bodorova](https://wophil.org/u-s-premiere-for-sylvie-bodorova/) - I was thrilled to read that the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra presented the U.S. Premiere of Czech composer Sylvie Bodorova's Symphony No. 1. Read the review in the Washington Post. The work was first premiered in March of 2011 - what a shame that it has taken so long to be heard in America. As the review reveals, FSO
- [Lancaster Symphony is Honoring Tina Davidson](https://wophil.org/lancaster-symphony-honoring-tina-davidson/) - This weekend one of our Performance Grant winners, the Lancaster Symphony in Pennsylvania, will honor the life and work of Tina Davidson, recipient of this year's Composer Award, given annually by the Lancaster Symphony to a contemporary classical composer for the past 55 years. The concert will feature a collaboration with local strings students on First
- [Grime and Hensel at the Library of Congress](https://wophil.org/grime-and-hensel-at-the-library-of-congress/) - The next free concert hosted in the Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress is this Friday, February 20. The Claremont Trio will perform Helen Grime's Three Whistler Miniatures, which the ensemble commissioned in 2012, as well as Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's Piano Trio in D minor. There will be a pre-concert lecture by the artists, which I
- [The New York Phil: In Search of a Conductor](https://wophil.org/the-new-york-phil-in-search-of-a-conductor/) - The Internet (or, at least, the classical music enthusiast part of the Internet) was a-buzz on Friday with the surprise announcement by Alan Gilbert. After a eight years at the helm, Gilbert will be leaving the New York Philharmonic. And among all of the gasps of dismay, as well as criticisms of his conducting style
- [A Conversation with Chen Yi](https://wophil.org/a-conversation-with-chen-yi/) - Chinese composer, and Women's Philharmonic Advocacy Board Member, Chen Yi was recently featured in a conversation with Tan Dun, Chou Wen-chung, and Zhou Long on WQXR. . It's a fantastic conversation about the immigrant experience and their development as musicians and composers. Listen to the conversation here: Featured music includes Chen Yi's Shuo:
- [25 Years Ago -- Pioneering Work by The Women's Philharmonic!](https://wophil.org/25-years-ago/) - Works by Fanny Hensel and Libby Larsen Presented in 1990 Bringing a major historic work to light and presenting a recently-composed work -- along with a well-known historical reference point in music -- was all in a day's work for The Women's Philharmonic in 1990. This program note ((c) Robyn Bramhall and The Women's Philharmonic) is
- [New CD by Liza Lim](https://wophil.org/new-cd-by-liza-lim/) - Australian composer Liza Lim has a new recording of orchestral works. Released at the end of December, the CD features The Compass; Pearl, Ochre, Hair String; and The Guest. For more information about Lim visit her website, or check out this (dated, but still informative) interview. The Guardian has a review of the new CD, which is available on Amazon.
- [New Kaija Saariaho Recording](https://wophil.org/new-kaija-saariaho-recording/) - Thanks to Q2 Music for their feature and review of the new CD of Kaija Saariaho's works! Reviewer Daniel Stephen Johnson says this about Saariaho: In an era when the very notion of a classical "masterpiece" has all but fallen apart in the face of competing, often contradictory musical values, Kaija Saariaho may be the
- [Higdon World Premiere](https://wophil.org/higdon-world-premiere/) - A new work by Jennifer Higdon will be premiered on Monday night (February 9) at Carnegie Hall. Thomas Hampson will be featured in the song cycle for baritone and piano titled Civil Words. It was commissioned by Carnegie Hall. In Higdon's own words: “Civil Words” is a song cycle of text derived from the
- [Listen to BBC Radio 3 on March 8](https://wophil.org/listen-to-bbc-radio-3-on-march-8/) - BBC Radio 3 is planning a full day of programming of works by women composers in honor of International Woman's Day on March 8. The schedule will include works of and conversations about Fanny Mendelssohn, Rebecca Clarke, Anna Meredith, Barbara Strozzi, Germaine Tailleferre, Mel Bonis, Augusta Holmes, among many others. Find the full schedule here. In addition to
- [A Weekend of Music by Women](https://wophil.org/a-weekend-of-music-by-women/) - This coming weekend will see three different performances of 2014 Performance Grant winners! The Sheboygan Symphony will perform three works by Ana Milosavljevic on February 7 - Red (2013) for orchestra, the World Premiere of Reflections (2013) for violin and orchestra, and the World Premiere of Viper Concerto (2014) for Viper electric violin and orchestra, which was commissioned by the
- [The 100th Birthday of Vítězslava Kaprálová](https://wophil.org/the-100th-birthday-of-vitezslava-kapralova/) - Artistic directors, conductors, and radio playlist makers, love to acknowledge composer birthdays. In fact, we just discussed how significant birthdays can impact programming on a national level as orchestras include tribute concerts in their annual programming. Even as I write this I am reminded of the birthdays of Mozart and Schubert with special (belated) birthday tributes
- [Congratulations to the 2014 Performance Grant Winners!](https://wophil.org/congratulations-to-the-2014-performance-grant-winners/) - We were so happy to be able to once again offer Performance Grants to support the works of women composers being performed more widely - and the judges were rather impressed, not only with the number of responses, but the quality of the proposed programs. There are many exciting concerts to look forward to! The
- [Fresno Philharmonic Performs Gabriela Lena Frank](https://wophil.org/fresno-philharmonic-performs-gabriela-lena-frank/) - As we mentioned earlier, there was an enthusiastic response to the 2014 Performance Grants in support of hearing more works by women composers. The first concert is already right around the corner! The Fresno Philharmonic will feature Gabriela Lena Frank's Three Latin American Dances on Sunday, January 25. Frank's work shares the program with Ravel's Bolero, Piazzolla's Tangazo, and Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto

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- [WPA Resources for CODA-Conference](https://wophil.org/coda-2026/) - Amy Beach website www.amybeach.org Incomplete list of The Women's Philharmonic repertoire -- 283 pieces. Painter Marguerite Radoux, who painted two images of Juliette Folville in the late 1890s Link to Google drive: Folville's Concert Piece for cello and orchestra (1905), performed by the Community Women's Orchestra (April 2007, Dir. Kathleen McGuire, cellist -- I should
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- [Louise Farrenc](https://wophil.org/louise-farrenc/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”rgba(0,0,0,0.76)” background_image=”https://shop.wophil.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/pexels-pixabay-164821.jpg” background_blend=”multiply” custom_padding=”3%||3%||true|false” box_shadow_style=”preset3″ global_colors_info=”{}” da_is_popup=”off” da_exit_intent=”off” da_has_close=”on” da_alt_close=”off” da_dark_close=”off” da_not_modal=”on” da_is_singular=”off” da_with_loader=”off” da_has_shadow=”on” da_disable_devices=”off|off|off”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”18px” header_font_size=”45px” header_2_font_size=”40px” background_layout=”dark” header_font_size_tablet=”45px” header_font_size_phone=”30px” header_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]Louise Farrenc.[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”|0px||||” global_colors_info=”{}” da_is_popup=”off” da_exit_intent=”off” da_has_close=”on” da_alt_close=”off” da_dark_close=”off” da_not_modal=”on” da_is_singular=”off” da_with_loader=”off” da_has_shadow=”on” da_disable_devices=”off|off|off”][et_pb_row column_structure=”2_3,1_3″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″
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- [WPA Performance Grants](https://wophil.org/wpa-performance-grants/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”rgba(0,0,0,0.76)” background_image=”https://shop.wophil.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/pexels-pixabay-164821.jpg” background_blend=”multiply” min_height=”150px” custom_padding=”0.2%||0.2%||true|false” da_disable_devices=”off|off|off” box_shadow_style=”preset3″ global_colors_info=”{}” da_is_popup=”off” da_exit_intent=”off” da_has_close=”on” da_alt_close=”off” da_dark_close=”off” da_not_modal=”on” da_is_singular=”off” da_with_loader=”off” da_has_shadow=”on”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,1_3,1_3″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”50px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”18px” header_font_size=”45px” header_2_font_size=”40px” background_layout=”dark” header_font_size_tablet=”45px” header_font_size_phone=”30px” header_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]Grants[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_button button_url=”#Grants-Application” button_text=”Apply/Instructions” button_alignment=”right” button_alignment_tablet=”center” button_alignment_phone=”left” button_alignment_last_edited=”on|phone” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_button=”on” button_text_color=”#FFFFFF” button_bg_color=”#E02B20″
- [Revised WPA Performance Grant (2024)](https://wophil.org/revised-wpa-performance-grant-2024/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”11px|||||” da_disable_devices=”off|off|off” global_colors_info=”{}” da_is_popup=”off” da_exit_intent=”off” da_has_close=”on” da_alt_close=”off” da_dark_close=”off” da_not_modal=”on” da_is_singular=”off” da_with_loader=”off” da_has_shadow=”on”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_padding=”2px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_menu menu_id=”1644″ active_link_color=”#e02b20″ _builder_version=”4.16″ menu_font=”|800|||||||” custom_margin=”||-13px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_menu][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.22.1″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] WPA Grants The WPA grants program is temporarily unavailable as we take time
- [WPA Grants for Projects or Events - Application Form](https://wophil.org/wpa-grants-for-projects-or-events-application-form/) - Grants are awarded to help orchestras, ensembles, student-led, or other groups perform, record, or create public documents about, or otherwise make accessible historic works by women and works that have been unjustly neglected because of their composers’ gender, race or ethnicity. We expect the projects that we support to contribute to furthering diversity, equity and
- [Resources](https://wophil.org/resources/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”rgba(0,0,0,0.76)” background_image=”https://shop.wophil.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/pexels-pixabay-164821.jpg” background_blend=”multiply” custom_padding=”0%||0%||true|false” global_colors_info=”{}” da_is_popup=”off” da_exit_intent=”off” da_has_close=”on” da_alt_close=”off” da_dark_close=”off” da_not_modal=”on” da_is_singular=”off” da_with_loader=”off” da_has_shadow=”on” da_disable_devices=”off|off|off”][et_pb_row column_structure=”2_3,1_3″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”18px” header_font_size=”45px” header_2_font_size=”40px” background_layout=”dark” header_font_size_tablet=”45px” header_font_size_phone=”30px” header_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]Resources For Finding Repertoire While WPA is an initial great start for finding works be women composers there are
- [Our Team](https://wophil.org/our-team/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#000000″ background_enable_image=”off” background_blend=”multiply” custom_padding=”2%||7%||false|false” top_divider_color=”#E02B20″ bottom_divider_style=”mountains2″ bottom_divider_color=”#FFFFFF” da_disable_devices=”off|off|off” global_colors_info=”{}” da_is_popup=”off” da_exit_intent=”off” da_has_close=”on” da_alt_close=”off” da_dark_close=”off” da_not_modal=”on” da_is_singular=”off” da_with_loader=”off” da_has_shadow=”on”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”18px” header_font_size=”45px” header_2_font_size=”40px” background_layout=”dark” header_font_size_tablet=”45px” header_font_size_phone=”30px” header_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]Our Team Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy was founded with the goal of keeping part of the mission of
- [Louise Farrenc Resources](https://wophil.org/louisefarrenc-2/) - Works list This list of works is based on what is currently in the catalog at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France: Choral works O père qu'adore mon père (hymn by Lamartine), (unaccompanied choir) O père qu'adore mon père (hymn by Lamartine), (choir and piano) O salutaris hostia, (soprano, alto and tenor) Vocal works Andréa la
- [Louise Farrenc -- Home](https://wophil.org/louisefarrenc-3/) - “Louise Farrenc (1804-1875) was a prolific composer, performer, and teacher of art music in Romantic-era France. Widely regarded during her lifetime for her incredible natural talent and hard work, her compositions fell into obscurity after her death due to general disinterest in women’s contributions to art. As Farrenc started to become more recognized in the
- [About Louise Farrenc](https://wophil.org/louisefarrenc-1/) - Louise FarrencEarly Life Farrenc was born “Jeanne-Louise Dumont” in 1804 in Paris on May 31, 1804. Having come from a long line of visual artists, and growing up in an arts district, Farrenc–much like her siblings–was encouraged first by her family and later by her husband to pursue the arts. She got to spend her
- [The Women’s Phil](https://wophil.org/the-womens-phil/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”rgba(0,0,0,0.76)” background_image=”https://shop.wophil.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/pexels-pixabay-164821.jpg” background_blend=”multiply” custom_padding=”0.2%||0.2%||true|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” box_shadow_style=”preset3″ sticky_enabled=”0″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”18px” header_font_size=”45px” header_2_font_size=”40px” background_layout=”dark” header_font_size_tablet=”45px” header_font_size_phone=”30px” header_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]About Us & The Women’s Philharmonic Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy was founded with the goal of keeping part of the mission of The Women’s Philharmonic alive. Our founders and
- [Past Grant Winners](https://wophil.org/grants/past-grant-winners-2/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”rgba(0,0,0,0.76)” background_image=”https://shop.wophil.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/pexels-pixabay-164821.jpg” background_blend=”multiply” custom_padding=”1.1%||1.1%||true|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” box_shadow_style=”preset3″ sticky_enabled=”0″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”18px” header_font_size=”45px” header_2_font_size=”40px” background_layout=”dark” header_font_size_tablet=”45px” header_font_size_phone=”30px” header_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]Past Grant Winners[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”40px||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]WPA Performance Grants Recipents (2024-2026) Boston Landmarks Orchestra offers free
- [Thank You For Your Interest](https://wophil.org/thank-you-for-your-interest/) - Thank you for your interest in the WPA Projects and Events grants! The focus of these grants is to promote the rediscovery and promotion of neglected or unknown works by women of the past; therefore, grants are not awarded solely for the commission or performance of newly written works. We do encourage Inclusion of newer
- [Repertoire Suggestions - WPA Performance Grants](https://wophil.org/repertoire-suggestions/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_menu menu_id=”1644″ active_link_color=”#e02b20″ _builder_version=”4.16″ menu_font=”|800|||||||” custom_margin=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_menu][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”] Repertoire Suggestions A large portion of the music library of The Women’s Philharmonic is available through the Free Public Library of Philadelphia. Search for “Women’s Philharmonic” and
- [Support Our Work](https://wophil.org/support/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”rgba(0,0,0,0.76)” background_image=”https://shop.wophil.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/pexels-pixabay-164821.jpg” background_blend=”multiply” custom_padding=”0%||0%||true|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”18px” header_font_size=”45px” header_2_font_size=”40px” background_layout=”dark” header_font_size_tablet=”45px” header_font_size_phone=”30px” header_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]Support Our Work Donors make the advocacy we do possible.[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”4px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ background_size=”initial”
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- [Past Grant Winners](https://wophil.org/grants/past-grant-winners/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_menu menu_id=”1644″ active_link_color=”#e02b20″ _builder_version=”4.16″ menu_font=”|800|||||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_menu][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.21.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_margin=”27px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”]The following ensembles were recipients of Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy Performance Grants for 2024 – 2026: Boston Landmarks Orchestra offers free outdoor concerts throughout the summer, consistently featuring music
- [2024 WPA Performance Grants](https://wophil.org/grants/2024-wpa-performance-grants/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”11px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_padding=”2px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_menu menu_id=”1644″ active_link_color=”#e02b20″ _builder_version=”4.16″ menu_font=”|800|||||||” custom_margin=”||-13px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_menu][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.22.1″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”] 2024 WPA Performance Grants The Performance Grants award program for 2024 is currently being re-evaluated. Since 2012, Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy has been proud to provide
- [WPA Projects and Events Grants Application](https://wophil.org/wpa-grants-rev-2024/) - [et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text]Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.The WPA Grants Program is currently closed. Thank you for your interest! As of January 2026, the WPA grants program has been temporarily suspended. Updates will be shared on the website once they become available. Name of Person Submitting the Application *FirstMiddleLastEnsemble/Applicant Name *Is the
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- [Chadwick-John Morris comparison](https://wophil.org/chadwick-john-morris-comparison/) - 1, George W. Chadwick, "Jubilee" Clip 2. John Morris, Blazing Saddles clip
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- [ACSO2024  -- Suggested Resources](https://wophil.org/acso2024/) - 2024 WPA Orchestral Publications for ACSO P Anna's Composer Database -- Compiled by Conductor Anna Edwards to provide curated and carefully selected works for diverse and innovative orchestral programming. Furore Music Verlag -- publishing women composers since 1986 (!!) -- orchestral music by Emilie Mayer,
- [Publications](https://wophil.org/publications/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”]Welcome to our Publications page, launched in 2017 as we celebrated the 150th anniversary of Amy Beach’s birth. Our Amy Beach website contains our publications by that composer. Our editions are critical/performing editions, created by qualified professional
- [500 Operas by Women](https://wophil.org/500ops/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_margin=”0px||||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.16″ text_line_height=”1.5em” header_font=”|700|||||||” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”]500 Operas By Women March 7, 2022 – in honor of International Women’s Day, we are unveiling the latest version of this database! These updates are by Kerry Lewis,
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- [Meet Our Senior Music Editor](https://wophil.org/meet-our-senior-music-editor/) - Chris A. Trotman, praised for his “skillful orchestration” and “exquisite tact” (Rochester City Newspaper), is a music editor, engraver, arranger, orchestrator, composer, librarian, pedagogue and researcher. He is a December 2013 graduate of the Kent State University Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree program. In 2010, Chris graduated from the University of Alabama’s
- [Symphony No. 3 in G minor, Op. 36 (1847)](https://wophil.org/symphony-no-3/)
- [III. Air for Chamber Orchestra, from Suite for Piano](https://wophil.org/iii-air-for-chamber-orchestra-from-suite-for-piano/)
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- [Partita for Piano & Strings (piano reduction)](https://wophil.org/partita-for-piano-strings-piano-reduction/)
- [Passacaglia on an Old English Tune - Chamber Orchestra](https://wophil.org/passacaglia-on-an-old-english-tune-chamber-orchestra/)
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- [Orchestral Music by Women of African Descent](https://wophil.org/african/) - Orchestral Music by Women of African Descent (listed alphabetically) We are looking for volunteers to help us expand and update this list! (last update Sept. 9, 2020) email info@wophil.org Eleanor Alberga (b. 1949) Contemporary Jamaican composer and pianist Works for Orchestra include: Arise Athens! (with chorus, commissioned for "Last Night of the Proms" 2015 and
- [AJ Rodriguez' Master's Recital!](https://wophil.org/ajrodriguez/) - AJ Rodriguez' Master's Recital is a fundraising event for Women's Philharmonic Advocacy! Donate with Ko-Fi or Paypal AJ writes: "I was deciding on repertoire and I decided I wanted to end with a set of living female composers. While researching music that was applicable for my voice, I came to realize that the representation of
- [Repertoire](https://wophil.org/repertoire/) - [et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”]REPERTOIRE BY WOMEN COMPOSERS In 2017, Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy launched our Publications page, featuring our newly edited and engraved score and parts of the Symphony in E minor, Op. 32 “Gaelic,” by Amy Beach, and other works by Beach, as well as music by Elfrida Andrée, Marion Bauer, Rebecca
- [Vítězslava Kaprálová](https://wophil.org/vitezslava-kapralova-3/) - • Partita for Piano and Strings, reduced for 2 pianos – solo piano and piano accompaniment (orchestral reduction) Orchestral reduction by Chris A. Trotman. Please contact us at info@wophil.org to purchase. The original Partita publication is available through the publisher Czech Radio .
- [Remembering Dr. Nancy B. Reich](https://wophil.org/nancy-reich-tribute/) - On January 31, 2019, renowned musicologist Dr. Nancy B. Reich passed away at the age of 94. Her obituary is available via the New York Times. Dr. Reich was a tremendous advocate for music by women, and particularly a champion of pianist/composer Clara Schumann. Her influential book Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman won the
- [Repertoire of The Women’s Philharmonic](https://wophil.org/wphilrep/) - Repertoire of The Women’s Philharmonic (partial) This is a first attempt to list the repertoire of The Women's Philharmonic, based on an incomplete collection of programs. We welcome additional input (email: info@wophil.org), and we would also like to incorporate more information about how to obtain the music. For many of the late 20th century works
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- [Column 1](https://wophil.org/column-1/) - Celebrating AMY BEACH!Are women composers STILL excluded from orchestral programming?A look at U.S. data:Is this progress? The 2019-2020 SeasonOur take on the 2016-2017 Season2015-16 data gathered by the Baltimore Symphony OrchestraOur take on the 2015-16 Season2014-15 data gathered by the Baltimore SO2010-2011 2009-2010 2008-2009
- [Celebrating Women's Suffrage](https://wophil.org/suffrage/) - Celebrate Women's Suffrage With Music by Women Amy BeachVirtuosic pianist and composer remembered primarily as being the first American woman to have a symphony performed. Her list of works for large ensemble include a Piano Concert, Symphony, and Mass. Learn more about the astounding life and works of Amy Beach at AmyBeach.com! Find several recently
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- [Smart List 5](https://wophil.org/smart-list-5-2/) - Popular Publications​​ Emerging Global Trends in Leather and Fashion Alice BurtonMay 3, 20180 Sustainable Fashion: Welcome Revolution April 27, 2018 Proof Gigi and Bella Hadid are the Least Competitive Sisters April 27, 2018 Women Are Taking Over the World of Comedy April 27, 2018
- [Smart List 4](https://wophil.org/smart-list-4-2/) - Popular Publications​​ Proof Gigi and Bella Hadid are the Least Competitive Sisters Alice BurtonApril 27, 20180The world’s developed economies have got a new stage of unemployment - its level is back down to before financial crisis. According to data from OECD unemployment level fell 5.6pc in October across the 35 Women Are Taking Over the
- [Smart List 3](https://wophil.org/smart-list-3-2/) - Popular Publications​​ Emerging Global Trends in Leather and Fashion Alice BurtonMay 3, 2018 Proof Gigi and Bella Hadid are the Least Competitive Sisters April 27, 2018 Women Are Taking Over the World of Comedy April 27, 2018 Emerging Global Trends in Leather and Fashion April 27, 2018 Emerging Global Trends in Leather and Fashion
- [Smart List 2](https://wophil.org/smart-list-2-2/) - Popular Publications​ Alice Burton Trips. New York Roofs Series Alice BurtonMay 3, 20180Do you often call the handyman? There are hundreds of cases when we are at despair or just don’t know what yo do in our home. e need somebody who will fix everything and return Sustainable Fashion: Welcome Revolution April 27, 2018 Best
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- [Typography](https://wophil.org/typography-2/) - Typography Heading 1 All the great plans that could have made him a truly Reforming President, were not completed and so the 44th President of US will most likely remain an “intermediate” part of American history. That is confirmed by President himself, as he now constantly compares himself (unfavorably) to truly great US leaders, like
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- [Smart List 1](https://wophil.org/smart-list-1/) - Popular Publications​ Alice Burton Trips. New York Roofs Series Alice BurtonMay 3, 20180Do you often call the handyman? There are hundreds of cases when we are at despair or just don’t know what yo do in our home. e need somebody who will fix everything and return our normal lifestyle. This unique Sustainable Fashion: Welcome
- [Smart List 2](https://wophil.org/smart-list-2/) - Popular Publications​ Alice Burton Trips. New York Roofs Series Alice BurtonMay 3, 20180Do you often call the handyman? There are hundreds of cases when we are at despair or just don’t know what yo do in our home. e need somebody who will fix everything and return Sustainable Fashion: Welcome Revolution April 27, 2018 Best
- [Smart List 3](https://wophil.org/smart-list-3/) - Popular Publications​​ Emerging Global Trends in Leather and Fashion Alice BurtonMay 3, 2018 Proof Gigi and Bella Hadid are the Least Competitive Sisters April 27, 2018 Women Are Taking Over the World of Comedy April 27, 2018 Emerging Global Trends in Leather and Fashion April 27, 2018 Emerging Global Trends in Leather and Fashion
- [Smart List 4](https://wophil.org/smart-list-4/) - Popular Publications​​ Proof Gigi and Bella Hadid are the Least Competitive Sisters Alice BurtonApril 27, 20180The world’s developed economies have got a new stage of unemployment - its level is back down to before financial crisis. According to data from OECD unemployment level fell 5.6pc in October across the 35 Women Are Taking Over the
- [Smart List 5](https://wophil.org/smart-list-5/) - Popular Publications​​ Emerging Global Trends in Leather and Fashion Alice BurtonMay 3, 20180 Sustainable Fashion: Welcome Revolution April 27, 2018 Proof Gigi and Bella Hadid are the Least Competitive Sisters April 27, 2018 Women Are Taking Over the World of Comedy April 27, 2018
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- [Smart List 8](https://wophil.org/smart-list-8/) - Popular Publications​​ Alice Burton Trips. New York Roofs Series Alice BurtonMay 3, 20180 Sustainable Fashion: Welcome Revolution Proof Gigi and Bella Hadid are the Least Competitive Sisters Women Are Taking Over the World of Comedy Emerging Global Trends in Leather and Fashion Emerging Global Trends in Leather and Fashion Best Fashion Picks for Women from
- [Typography](https://wophil.org/typography/) - Typography Heading 1 All the great plans that could have made him a truly Reforming President, were not completed and so the 44th President of US will most likely remain an “intermediate” part of American history. That is confirmed by President himself, as he now constantly compares himself (unfavorably) to truly great US leaders, like
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- [Press Release re. Performance Grants 2016](https://wophil.org/press-release-grants-spring-2017/) - Press Release re. Performance Grants Spring 2017 Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy (WPA) is happy to announce our Spring 2017 Performance Grants, with awards of $500 to $1000 available to all U.S. orchestras. The deadline is March 10, and the application form is available here. Decisions will be announced March 31. The goal of these grants is
- [2016 Calendar](https://wophil.org/calendar/) - Celebrate women composers throughout the year with the WPA Calendar! Throughout 2016 we will share a new downloadable and printable calendar each month honoring the work of women composers throughout history. Below is our first installment in two versions for easier printing and saving. December 2016 (one sheet) December 2016 (two sheets) November 2016
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- [Klaviernacht-Pianonight](https://wophil.org/shop/klaviernacht-pianonight/) - European import! Piano music by women composers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Clara Schumann, Maria Szymanowska, Fanny Mendelssohn, Cécile Chaminade, Silvia Sommer
- [Rebecca Clarke: Flesch Quartet, Chamber Music](https://wophil.org/shop/rebecca-clarke-flesch-quartet-chamber-music/) - An entire CD of unknown and previously unpublished music, most in first recordings. Includes the recently discovered Nocturne and Danse Bizarre, for two violins and piano (1907), Clarke’s “Dumka,” for viola, violin and piano, and two pieces for String Quartet.
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## 3D FlipBook

- [Farrenc - Symphony No. 3](https://wophil.org/3d-flip-book/farrenc-symphony-no-3/)
- [Sinfonia in C Major](https://wophil.org/3d-flip-book/sinfonia-in-c-major/)
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- [Bauer - Symphony No. 1, Op. 45](https://wophil.org/3d-flip-book/bauer-symphony-no-1-op-45/)
- [Andrée - Swedish Mass sample](https://wophil.org/3d-flip-book/andree-swedish-mass-sample/)
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- [Reno Philharmonic](https://wophil.org/tag/reno-philharmonic/)
- [Xian Zhang](https://wophil.org/tag/xian-zhang/)
- [Orchestra Sinfonica (La Verdi)](https://wophil.org/tag/orchestra-sinfonica-la-verdi/)
- [Joana Careniro](https://wophil.org/tag/joana-careniro/)
- [Berkeley Symphony](https://wophil.org/tag/berkeley-symphony/)
- [Anne Manson](https://wophil.org/tag/anne-manson/)
- [Teresa Cheung](https://wophil.org/tag/teresa-cheung/)
- [Elizabeth Schulze](https://wophil.org/tag/elizabeth-schulze/)
- [Antonia Joy Wilson](https://wophil.org/tag/antonia-joy-wilson/)
- [JoAnn Falletta](https://wophil.org/tag/joann-falletta/)
- [Marin Alsop](https://wophil.org/tag/marin-alsop/)
- [Victoria Bond](https://wophil.org/tag/victoria-bond/)
- [Baltimore Symphony](https://wophil.org/tag/baltimore-symphony/)
- [Feminist Theory and Music](https://wophil.org/tag/feminist-theory-and-music/)
- [Paula Matthusen](https://wophil.org/tag/paula-matthusen/)
- [Tania Leon](https://wophil.org/tag/tania-leon/)
- [Elena Langer](https://wophil.org/tag/elena-langer/)
- [Andreia Pinto-Correia](https://wophil.org/tag/andreia-pinto-correia/)
- [Apu Ching-Hsin Hsu](https://wophil.org/tag/apu-ching-hsin-hsu/)
- [Festival of Contemporary Music](https://wophil.org/tag/festival-of-contemporary-music/)
- [Tanglewood Music Center](https://wophil.org/tag/tanglewood-music-center/)
- [Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music](https://wophil.org/tag/torontos-royal-conservatory-of-music/)
- [League of American Orchestras](https://wophil.org/tag/league-of-american-orchestras/)
- [repertoire reports](https://wophil.org/tag/repertoire-reports/)
- [Sarah Caldwell](https://wophil.org/tag/sarah-caldwell/)
- [Jeremy Eichler](https://wophil.org/tag/jeremy-eichler/)
- [James Levine](https://wophil.org/tag/james-levine/)
- [Julia Jones](https://wophil.org/tag/julia-jones/)
- [commission](https://wophil.org/tag/commission/)
- [Alissa Firsova](https://wophil.org/tag/alissa-firsova/)
- [Betty Olivero](https://wophil.org/tag/betty-olivero/)
- [Judith Weir](https://wophil.org/tag/judith-weir/)
- [Thea Musgrave](https://wophil.org/tag/thea-musgrave/)
- [Dorothy Forester](https://wophil.org/tag/dorothy-forester/)
- [Dorothy Howell](https://wophil.org/tag/dorothy-howell/)
- [Tansy Davies](https://wophil.org/tag/tansy-davies/)
- [Ann Hobson Pilot](https://wophil.org/tag/ann-hobson-pilot/)
- [Harlem Quartet](https://wophil.org/tag/harlem-quartet/)
- [Sphinx Competition](https://wophil.org/tag/sphinx-competition/)
- [BAnff International String Competition](https://wophil.org/tag/banff-international-string-competition/)
- [Cecilia String Quartet](https://wophil.org/tag/cecilia-string-quartet/)
- [Ana Sokolovic](https://wophil.org/tag/ana-sokolovic/)
- [Belinda Reynolds](https://wophil.org/tag/belinda-reynolds/)
- [Kelly-Marie Murphy](https://wophil.org/tag/kelly-marie-murphy/)
- [birthdays](https://wophil.org/tag/birthdays/)
- [ISSUE Project Room](https://wophil.org/tag/issue-project-room/)
- [Pauline Oliveros](https://wophil.org/tag/pauline-oliveros/)
- [Eliane Radigue](https://wophil.org/tag/eliane-radigue/)
- [Laurie Spiegel](https://wophil.org/tag/laurie-spiegel/)
- [Hiliary Hahn](https://wophil.org/tag/hiliary-hahn/)
- [Feast Day](https://wophil.org/tag/feast-day/)
- [Amy Beach](https://wophil.org/tag/amy-beach/)
- [Kaija Saariaho](https://wophil.org/tag/kaija-saariaho/)
- [The Miller Theater](https://wophil.org/tag/the-miller-theater/)
- [Columbia University](https://wophil.org/tag/columbia-university/)
- [International Contemporary Ensemble](https://wophil.org/tag/international-contemporary-ensemble/)
- [Hannah Lash](https://wophil.org/tag/hannah-lash/)
- [Victoire](https://wophil.org/tag/victoire/)
- [R. Larry Todd](https://wophil.org/tag/r-larry-todd/)
- [Fanny Mendelsohn](https://wophil.org/tag/fanny-mendelsohn/)
- [Nancy Van de Vate](https://wophil.org/tag/nancy-van-de-vate/)
- [Kronos Quartet](https://wophil.org/tag/kronos-quartet/)
- [Le Poisson Rouge](https://wophil.org/tag/le-poisson-rouge/)
- [Aleksandra Vrebalov](https://wophil.org/tag/aleksandra-vrebalov/)
- [Maria Schneider](https://wophil.org/tag/maria-schneider/)
- [Judith Berkson](https://wophil.org/tag/judith-berkson/)
- [Laurie Anderson](https://wophil.org/tag/laurie-anderson/)
- [Alexandra du Bois](https://wophil.org/tag/alexandra-du-bois/)
- [Aviya Kopelman](https://wophil.org/tag/aviya-kopelman/)
- [Gabriel Lena Frank](https://wophil.org/tag/gabriel-lena-frank/)
- [The Chiara String Quartet](https://wophil.org/tag/the-chiara-string-quartet/)
- [Orpheus Chamber Orchestra](https://wophil.org/tag/orpheus-chamber-orchestra/)
- [Project 440](https://wophil.org/tag/project-440/)
- [Cynthia Wong](https://wophil.org/tag/cynthia-wong/)
- [Yu-Hui Chang](https://wophil.org/tag/yu-hui-chang/)
- [Paola Prestini](https://wophil.org/tag/paola-prestini/)
- [Amy Kirsten](https://wophil.org/tag/amy-kirsten/)
- [Wang Jie](https://wophil.org/tag/wang-jie/)
- [Paula Mattusen](https://wophil.org/tag/paula-mattusen/)
- [Polina Nazaykinskaya](https://wophil.org/tag/polina-nazaykinskaya/)
- [Laura Andel](https://wophil.org/tag/laura-andel/)
- [Gabriella Smith](https://wophil.org/tag/gabriella-smith/)
- [Beata Moon](https://wophil.org/tag/beata-moon/)
- [Ann Millikan](https://wophil.org/tag/ann-millikan/)
- [Zibuokle Martinaityte](https://wophil.org/tag/zibuokle-martinaityte/)
- [New York Philharmonic](https://wophil.org/tag/new-york-philharmonic/)
- [Kurt Masur](https://wophil.org/tag/kurt-masur/)
- [Yulianna Avdeyeva](https://wophil.org/tag/yulianna-avdeyeva/)
- [Chopin Piano Competition](https://wophil.org/tag/chopin-piano-competition/)
- [Martha Argerich](https://wophil.org/tag/martha-argerich/)
- [Nadia Boulanger](https://wophil.org/tag/nadia-boulanger/)
- [Joanna MacGregor](https://wophil.org/tag/joanna-macgregor/)
- [Royal Academy of Music](https://wophil.org/tag/royal-academy-of-music/)
- [barbie](https://wophil.org/tag/barbie/)
- [Arnie Roth](https://wophil.org/tag/arnie-roth/)
- [archives](https://wophil.org/tag/archives/)
- [Julia Wolfe](https://wophil.org/tag/julia-wolfe/)
- [Bang On a Can](https://wophil.org/tag/bang-on-a-can/)
- [Alex Ross](https://wophil.org/tag/alex-ross/)
- [Blanche Moyse](https://wophil.org/tag/blanche-moyse/)
- [June Boyce-Tillman](https://wophil.org/tag/june-boyce-tillman/)
- [Julian of Norwich](https://wophil.org/tag/julian-of-norwich/)
- [Johanna Beyer](https://wophil.org/tag/johanna-beyer/)
- [Ruth Crawford Seeger](https://wophil.org/tag/ruth-crawford-seeger/)
- [Charles Seeger](https://wophil.org/tag/charles-seeger/)
- [Henry Cowell](https://wophil.org/tag/henry-cowell/)
- [Library of Congress](https://wophil.org/tag/library-of-congress/)
- [New York Public Library](https://wophil.org/tag/new-york-public-library/)
- [Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra](https://wophil.org/tag/vienna-philharmonic-orchestra/)
- [William Osborne](https://wophil.org/tag/william-osborne/)
- [Abbie Conant](https://wophil.org/tag/abbie-conant/)
- [Comtessa de Dia](https://wophil.org/tag/comtessa-de-dia/)
- [Franghiz Ali-Zadeh](https://wophil.org/tag/franghiz-ali-zadeh/)
- [Lera Auerbach](https://wophil.org/tag/lera-auerbach/)
- [Tina Davidson](https://wophil.org/tag/tina-davidson/)
- [Bun-Ching Lam](https://wophil.org/tag/bun-ching-lam/)
- [Michiru Oshima](https://wophil.org/tag/michiru-oshima/)
- [Gillian Whitehead](https://wophil.org/tag/gillian-whitehead/)
- [Du Yun](https://wophil.org/tag/du-yun/)
- [Dame Ethel Smyth](https://wophil.org/tag/dame-ethel-smyth/)
- [Der Wald](https://wophil.org/tag/der-wald/)
- [The Wreckers](https://wophil.org/tag/the-wreckers/)
- [Florence Price](https://wophil.org/tag/florence-price/)
- [Marianne von Martinez](https://wophil.org/tag/marianne-von-martinez/)
- [Haydn](https://wophil.org/tag/haydn/)
- [Louise Talma](https://wophil.org/tag/louise-talma/)
- [Teresa Carreño](https://wophil.org/tag/teresa-carreno/)
- [Undine Smith Moore](https://wophil.org/tag/undine-smith-moore/)
- [Clara Kathleen Rogers](https://wophil.org/tag/clara-kathleen-rogers/)
- [Margaret Ruthven Lang](https://wophil.org/tag/margaret-ruthven-lang/)
- [Barbara Strozzi](https://wophil.org/tag/barbara-strozzi/)
- [Louise Farrenc](https://wophil.org/tag/louise-farrenc/)
- [Hector Berlioz](https://wophil.org/tag/hector-berlioz/)
- [Robert Schumann](https://wophil.org/tag/robert-schumann/)
- [Mary Howe](https://wophil.org/tag/mary-howe/)
- [Augusta Holmès](https://wophil.org/tag/augusta-holmes/)
- [Isabella Leonarda](https://wophil.org/tag/isabella-leonarda/)
- [Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra](https://wophil.org/tag/rochester-philharmonic-orchestra/)
- [Arild Remmereit](https://wophil.org/tag/arild-remmereit/)
- [Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel](https://wophil.org/tag/fanny-mendelssohn-hensel/)
- [Gabriela Lena Frank](https://wophil.org/tag/gabriela-lena-frank/)
- [Peggy Stuart Coolidge](https://wophil.org/tag/peggy-stuart-coolidge/)
- [Karen Tanaka](https://wophil.org/tag/karen-tanaka/)
- [Margaret Brouwer](https://wophil.org/tag/margaret-brouwer/)
- [Lili Bounagler](https://wophil.org/tag/lili-bounagler/)
- [Pauline Viardot](https://wophil.org/tag/pauline-viardot/)
- [Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre](https://wophil.org/tag/elisabeth-jacquet-de-la-guerre/)
- [Jane O'Leary](https://wophil.org/tag/jane-oleary/)
- [Germaine Tailleferre](https://wophil.org/tag/germaine-tailleferre/)
- [Francesca Caccini](https://wophil.org/tag/francesca-caccini/)
- [Vivian Fine](https://wophil.org/tag/vivian-fine/)
- [Cécile Chaminade](https://wophil.org/tag/cecile-chaminade/)
- [Maria Antonia Walpurgis](https://wophil.org/tag/maria-antonia-walpurgis/)
- [Maddalena Casulana](https://wophil.org/tag/maddalena-casulana/)
- [Violet Archer](https://wophil.org/tag/violet-archer/)
- [Julia Smith](https://wophil.org/tag/julia-smith/)
- [Julia Perry](https://wophil.org/tag/julia-perry/)
- [Maria Theresia von Paradis](https://wophil.org/tag/maria-theresia-von-paradis/)
- [Salieri](https://wophil.org/tag/salieri/)
- [Josephine Lang](https://wophil.org/tag/josephine-lang/)
- [Marion Bauer](https://wophil.org/tag/marion-bauer/)
- [Vítězslava Kaprálová](https://wophil.org/tag/vitezslava-kapralova/)
- [Sophia Gubaidulina](https://wophil.org/tag/sophia-gubaidulina/)
- [ETHEL](https://wophil.org/tag/ethel/)
- [Pamela Z](https://wophil.org/tag/pamela-z/)
- [Anna Clyne](https://wophil.org/tag/anna-clyne/)
- [Dohee Lee](https://wophil.org/tag/dohee-lee/)
- [JACK Quartet](https://wophil.org/tag/jack-quartet/)
- [Judith Tick](https://wophil.org/tag/judith-tick/)
- [Sally Beamish](https://wophil.org/tag/sally-beamish/)
- [Judith Bingham](https://wophil.org/tag/judith-bingham/)
- [Sofja Gübadomova](https://wophil.org/tag/sofja-gubadomova/)
- [NMWA](https://wophil.org/tag/nmwa/)
- [Spring for Music](https://wophil.org/tag/spring-for-music/)
- [Susanna Mälkki](https://wophil.org/tag/susanna-malkki/)
- [La Scala](https://wophil.org/tag/la-scala/)
- [Unsuk Chin](https://wophil.org/tag/unsuk-chin/)
- [Tony Woodcock](https://wophil.org/tag/tony-woodcock/)
- [New England Conservatory](https://wophil.org/tag/new-england-conservatory/)
- [Berlin Philharmonic](https://wophil.org/tag/berlin-philharmonic/)
- [Vienna Philharmonic](https://wophil.org/tag/vienna-philharmonic/)
- [IAWM](https://wophil.org/tag/iawm/)
- [Phyllis Tate](https://wophil.org/tag/phyllis-tate/)
- [Mei-Ann Chen](https://wophil.org/tag/mei-ann-chen/)
- [Chicago Sinfonietta](https://wophil.org/tag/chicago-sinfonietta/)
- [Gwyneth Walker](https://wophil.org/tag/gwyneth-walker/)
- [Ellen Taaffee Zwilich](https://wophil.org/tag/ellen-taaffee-zwilich/)
- [Reneé Baker](https://wophil.org/tag/renee-baker/)
- [Rachael Worby](https://wophil.org/tag/rachael-worby/)
- [Muse/ique](https://wophil.org/tag/museique/)
- [Dawn Upshaw](https://wophil.org/tag/dawn-upshaw/)
- [St. Paul Chamber Orchestra](https://wophil.org/tag/st-paul-chamber-orchestra/)
- [Cabrillo Festival](https://wophil.org/tag/cabrillo-festival/)
- [Chiayu](https://wophil.org/tag/chiayu/)
- [Zosha di Castri](https://wophil.org/tag/zosha-di-castri/)
- [Elena Kats-Chernin](https://wophil.org/tag/elena-kats-chernin/)
- [music education](https://wophil.org/tag/music-education/)
- [Alondra de la Parra](https://wophil.org/tag/alondra-de-la-parra/)
- [Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas](https://wophil.org/tag/philharmonic-orchestra-of-the-americas/)
- [Wendy Carlos](https://wophil.org/tag/wendy-carlos/)
- [Electronic music](https://wophil.org/tag/electronic-music/)
- [Shulamit Ran](https://wophil.org/tag/shulamit-ran/)
- [new music](https://wophil.org/tag/new-music/)
- [Julia Adolphe](https://wophil.org/tag/julia-adolphe/)
- [Anne Kilstofe](https://wophil.org/tag/anne-kilstofe/)
- [Katheryn Mishell](https://wophil.org/tag/katheryn-mishell/)
- [Jessica Rudman](https://wophil.org/tag/jessica-rudman/)
- [Sabrina Peña Young](https://wophil.org/tag/sabrina-pena-young/)
- [Nina C. Young](https://wophil.org/tag/nina-c-young/)
- [Jae Eun Jung](https://wophil.org/tag/jae-eun-jung/)
- [Beryl Lee Heuermann](https://wophil.org/tag/beryl-lee-heuermann/)
- [Elizabeth Nonemaker](https://wophil.org/tag/elizabeth-nonemaker/)
- [Karen Power](https://wophil.org/tag/karen-power/)
- [Fernande Decruck](https://wophil.org/tag/fernande-decruck/)
- [Mariln Shrude](https://wophil.org/tag/mariln-shrude/)
- [Jeanine Rueff](https://wophil.org/tag/jeanine-rueff/)
- [Eve Beglarian](https://wophil.org/tag/eve-beglarian/)
- [Errollyn Wallen](https://wophil.org/tag/errollyn-wallen/)
- [Bettina von Arnim](https://wophil.org/tag/bettina-von-arnim/)
- [Barbara Marchisio](https://wophil.org/tag/barbara-marchisio/)
- [Sophie Menter](https://wophil.org/tag/sophie-menter/)
- [Christina Nilsson](https://wophil.org/tag/christina-nilsson/)
- [Carlotte Sainton-Dolby](https://wophil.org/tag/carlotte-sainton-dolby/)
- [Paula Viardot-Garcia](https://wophil.org/tag/paula-viardot-garcia/)
- [manuscripts](https://wophil.org/tag/manuscripts/)
- [Glimmerglass](https://wophil.org/tag/glimmerglass/)
- [Francesca Zambello](https://wophil.org/tag/francesca-zambello/)
- [Jeanine Tesori](https://wophil.org/tag/jeanine-tesori/)
- [Alexandra Bryant](https://wophil.org/tag/alexandra-bryant/)
- [Ingrid Stölzel](https://wophil.org/tag/ingrid-stolzel/)
- [Santa Fe Opera](https://wophil.org/tag/santa-fe-opera/)
- [Yuja Wang](https://wophil.org/tag/yuja-wang/)
- [Lara St. John](https://wophil.org/tag/lara-st-john/)
- [Camilla Urso](https://wophil.org/tag/camilla-urso/)
- [Alma Mahler](https://wophil.org/tag/alma-mahler/)
- [Jane Little](https://wophil.org/tag/jane-little/)
- [Frances Darger](https://wophil.org/tag/frances-darger/)
- [Utah Symphony](https://wophil.org/tag/utah-symphony/)
- [Atlanta Symphony](https://wophil.org/tag/atlanta-symphony/)
- [Mel Bonis](https://wophil.org/tag/mel-bonis/)
- [Camille Saint Saens](https://wophil.org/tag/camille-saint-saens/)
- [Cesar Franck](https://wophil.org/tag/cesar-franck/)
- [Claude Debussy](https://wophil.org/tag/claude-debussy/)
- [North State Symphony](https://wophil.org/tag/north-state-symphony/)
- [Rebecca Clarke](https://wophil.org/tag/rebecca-clarke/)
- [Melissa Matson](https://wophil.org/tag/melissa-matson/)
- [Liane Curtis](https://wophil.org/tag/liane-curtis/)
- [New Black Music Repertory Ensemble](https://wophil.org/tag/new-black-music-repertory-ensemble/)
- [Leslie B. Dunner](https://wophil.org/tag/leslie-b-dunner/)
- [viola muisc](https://wophil.org/tag/viola-muisc/)
- [Rain Worthington](https://wophil.org/tag/rain-worthington/)
- [NYWC](https://wophil.org/tag/nywc/)
- [Susan B. Anthony House and Museum](https://wophil.org/tag/susan-b-anthony-house-and-museum/)
- [Amy Award](https://wophil.org/tag/amy-award/)
- [Nancy B. Reich](https://wophil.org/tag/nancy-b-reich/)
- [Saet Byeol Kim](https://wophil.org/tag/saet-byeol-kim/)
- [piano concerto](https://wophil.org/tag/piano-concerto/)
- [Ebene](https://wophil.org/tag/ebene/)
- [RPO](https://wophil.org/tag/rpo/)
- [Remmereit](https://wophil.org/tag/remmereit/)
- [New York Virtuoso Singers](https://wophil.org/tag/new-york-virtuoso-singers/)
- [Chen Yi](https://wophil.org/tag/chen-yi/)
- [Center for Black Music Research](https://wophil.org/tag/center-for-black-music-research/)
- [Philadelphia Orchestra](https://wophil.org/tag/philadelphia-orchestra/)
- [Met](https://wophil.org/tag/met/)
- [Jane Glover](https://wophil.org/tag/jane-glover/)
- [Metropolitan Opera](https://wophil.org/tag/metropolitan-opera/)
- [Women's Suffrage March](https://wophil.org/tag/womens-suffrage-march/)
- [Margaret Bonds](https://wophil.org/tag/margaret-bonds/)
- [International Women's Day](https://wophil.org/tag/international-womens-day/)
- [UN Women](https://wophil.org/tag/un-women/)
- [Cecilia Chorus](https://wophil.org/tag/cecilia-chorus/)
- [Tchaikovsky](https://wophil.org/tag/tchaikovsky/)
- [Anglican](https://wophil.org/tag/anglican/)
- [lesbian](https://wophil.org/tag/lesbian/)
- [Ethel Smyth](https://wophil.org/tag/ethel-smyth/)
- [Mass in D](https://wophil.org/tag/mass-in-d/)
- [Cecilia Chorus of New York](https://wophil.org/tag/cecilia-chorus-of-new-york/)
- [Elizabeth Wood](https://wophil.org/tag/elizabeth-wood/)
- [Memphis Symphony](https://wophil.org/tag/memphis-symphony/)
- [san diego symphony](https://wophil.org/tag/san-diego-symphony/)
- [Martha Gilmer](https://wophil.org/tag/martha-gilmer/)
- [chicago](https://wophil.org/tag/chicago/)
- [san diego](https://wophil.org/tag/san-diego/)
- [african american composers](https://wophil.org/tag/african-american-composers/)
- [Nan Washburn](https://wophil.org/tag/nan-washburn/)
- [Alessandra Salvati](https://wophil.org/tag/alessandra-salvati/)
- [American Prize](https://wophil.org/tag/american-prize/)
- [Jason Love](https://wophil.org/tag/jason-love/)
- [Saariaho](https://wophil.org/tag/saariaho/)
- [McGill](https://wophil.org/tag/mcgill/)
- [Nashville Symphony](https://wophil.org/tag/nashville-symphony/)
- [Society for American Music](https://wophil.org/tag/society-for-american-music/)
- [Elliot Carter](https://wophil.org/tag/elliot-carter/)
- [Charles Schultz](https://wophil.org/tag/charles-schultz/)
- [Alex Shapiro](https://wophil.org/tag/alex-shapiro/)
- [ASCAP](https://wophil.org/tag/ascap/)
- [Les Six](https://wophil.org/tag/les-six/)
- [Vivian Fung](https://wophil.org/tag/vivian-fung/)
- [le possion rouge](https://wophil.org/tag/le-possion-rouge/)
- [American Composers Forum](https://wophil.org/tag/american-composers-forum/)
- [Nkeiru Okoye](https://wophil.org/tag/nkeiru-okoye/)
- [Landmarks Orchestra of Boston](https://wophil.org/tag/landmarks-orchestra-of-boston/)
- [singer-songerwriter](https://wophil.org/tag/singer-songerwriter/)
- [jazz](https://wophil.org/tag/jazz/)
- [Curtis Institute](https://wophil.org/tag/curtis-institute/)
- [young composers](https://wophil.org/tag/young-composers/)
- [new york city](https://wophil.org/tag/new-york-city/)
- [philadelphia](https://wophil.org/tag/philadelphia/)
- [Eastman School of Music](https://wophil.org/tag/eastman-school-of-music/)
- [Sylvie Beaudette](https://wophil.org/tag/sylvie-beaudette/)
- [Grammy Awards](https://wophil.org/tag/grammy-awards/)
- [Gil Evans](https://wophil.org/tag/gil-evans/)
- [Katerina Kramarchuk](https://wophil.org/tag/katerina-kramarchuk/)
- [Eastman Women in Music Festival](https://wophil.org/tag/eastman-women-in-music-festival/)
- [Suzanne Sorkin](https://wophil.org/tag/suzanne-sorkin/)
- [Kaplan Duo](https://wophil.org/tag/kaplan-duo/)
- [Judith Lang Zaimont](https://wophil.org/tag/judith-lang-zaimont/)
- [Rolande Falcinelli](https://wophil.org/tag/rolande-falcinelli/)
- [Orchestra of the League of Composers](https://wophil.org/tag/orchestra-of-the-league-of-composers/)
- [Underwood Commission](https://wophil.org/tag/underwood-commission/)
- [American Composers Orchestra](https://wophil.org/tag/american-composers-orchestra/)
- [Dana Suesse](https://wophil.org/tag/dana-suesse/)
- [marimba](https://wophil.org/tag/marimba/)
- [Madeline Dring](https://wophil.org/tag/madeline-dring/)
- [Meira Warshauer](https://wophil.org/tag/meira-warshauer/)
- [Hilary Tann](https://wophil.org/tag/hilary-tann/)
- [Jocelyn Hagen](https://wophil.org/tag/jocelyn-hagen/)
- [Eleanor Daley](https://wophil.org/tag/eleanor-daley/)
- [Tellu Turkka](https://wophil.org/tag/tellu-turkka/)
- [Margaret Bond](https://wophil.org/tag/margaret-bond/)
- [Amanda Jacobs](https://wophil.org/tag/amanda-jacobs/)
- [Jon Lin Chua](https://wophil.org/tag/jon-lin-chua/)
- [girl composers](https://wophil.org/tag/girl-composers/)
- [Sophia Dussek](https://wophil.org/tag/sophia-dussek/)
- [Émilie du Châtelet](https://wophil.org/tag/emilie-du-chatelet/)
- [British Women's Symphony Orchestra](https://wophil.org/tag/british-womens-symphony-orchestra/)
- [Liza Lim](https://wophil.org/tag/liza-lim/)
- [Nazanin Aghakhani](https://wophil.org/tag/nazanin-aghakhani/)
- [Light and Hope](https://wophil.org/tag/light-and-hope/)
- [fat-shaming](https://wophil.org/tag/fat-shaming/)
- [bodies](https://wophil.org/tag/bodies/)
- [sexism](https://wophil.org/tag/sexism/)
- [singers](https://wophil.org/tag/singers/)
- [Anna Meredith](https://wophil.org/tag/anna-meredith/)
- [Tom Service](https://wophil.org/tag/tom-service/)
- [Tara Erraught](https://wophil.org/tag/tara-erraught/)
- [Master of the Queen's Music](https://wophil.org/tag/master-of-the-queens-music/)
- [Mozart family](https://wophil.org/tag/mozart-family/)
- [Marianne Martines](https://wophil.org/tag/marianne-martines/)
- [obstacles](https://wophil.org/tag/obstacles/)
- [genius](https://wophil.org/tag/genius/)
- [Theatre](https://wophil.org/tag/theatre-2/)
- [Sylvia Milo](https://wophil.org/tag/sylvia-milo/)
- [Phyllis Chen](https://wophil.org/tag/phyllis-chen/)
- [Nathan Davis](https://wophil.org/tag/nathan-davis/)
- [18th century composers](https://wophil.org/tag/18th-century-composers/)
- [Helen Grime](https://wophil.org/tag/helen-grime/)
- [Dobrinka Tabakova](https://wophil.org/tag/dobrinka-tabakova/)
- [Marlboro](https://wophil.org/tag/marlboro/)
- [Roxanna Panufnik](https://wophil.org/tag/roxanna-panufnik/)
- [Emily Cooley](https://wophil.org/tag/emily-cooley/)
- [TJ Cole](https://wophil.org/tag/tj-cole/)
- [Stacy Garrop](https://wophil.org/tag/stacy-garrop/)
- [Clarice Assad](https://wophil.org/tag/clarice-assad/)
- [Mostly Mozart](https://wophil.org/tag/mostly-mozart/)
- [Anna Thorvaldsdottir](https://wophil.org/tag/anna-thorvaldsdottir/)
- [British music](https://wophil.org/tag/british-music/)
- [Eva Jessye](https://wophil.org/tag/eva-jessye/)
- [Shirley Graham Du Bois](https://wophil.org/tag/shirley-graham-du-bois/)
- [WQXR](https://wophil.org/tag/wqxr/)
- [American Music Project](https://wophil.org/tag/american-music-project/)
- [Amy Wurtz](https://wophil.org/tag/amy-wurtz/)
- [American Opera Projects](https://wophil.org/tag/american-opera-projects/)
- [Grażyna Bacewicz](https://wophil.org/tag/grazyna-bacewicz/)
- [Alice Verne-Bredt](https://wophil.org/tag/alice-verne-bredt/)
- [Moab Music Festival](https://wophil.org/tag/moab-music-festival/)
- [Kate Soper](https://wophil.org/tag/kate-soper/)
- [Houston Symphony](https://wophil.org/tag/houston-symphony/)
- [aaron copland](https://wophil.org/tag/aaron-copland/)
- [Janet Beat](https://wophil.org/tag/janet-beat/)
- [Helen Hopekirk](https://wophil.org/tag/helen-hopekirk/)
- [Melody Eotvos](https://wophil.org/tag/melody-eotvos/)
- [EarShot](https://wophil.org/tag/earshot/)
- [Elfrida Andrée](https://wophil.org/tag/elfrida-andree/)
- [modern premieres](https://wophil.org/tag/modern-premieres/)
- [Michelle Merrill](https://wophil.org/tag/michelle-merrill/)
- [Detroit Symphony Orchestra](https://wophil.org/tag/detroit-symphony-orchestra/)
- [American Music](https://wophil.org/tag/american-music/)
- [Musical America](https://wophil.org/tag/musical-america/)
- [American Musicology Society (AMS)](https://wophil.org/tag/american-musicology-society-ams/)
- [Margot Fassler](https://wophil.org/tag/margot-fassler/)
- [Alice Mary Smith](https://wophil.org/tag/alice-mary-smith/)
- [Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini](https://wophil.org/tag/maria-teresa-agnesi-pinottini/)
- [Marianna Martines](https://wophil.org/tag/marianna-martines/)
- [experimental](https://wophil.org/tag/experimental/)
- [modernist](https://wophil.org/tag/modernist/)
- [Jenny Giering](https://wophil.org/tag/jenny-giering/)
- [Elim Chang](https://wophil.org/tag/elim-chang/)
- [Donatella Flick Conducting Competition](https://wophil.org/tag/donatella-flick-conducting-competition/)
- [Franghiz Ali-Z](https://wophil.org/tag/franghiz-ali-z/)
- [Kala Ramnath](https://wophil.org/tag/kala-ramnath/)
- [Rei Hotoda](https://wophil.org/tag/rei-hotoda/)
- [Nicole Lizee](https://wophil.org/tag/nicole-lizee/)
- [Smithsonian Institution](https://wophil.org/tag/smithsonian-institution/)
- [Handel and Hayden Society](https://wophil.org/tag/handel-and-hayden-society/)
- [mica levi](https://wophil.org/tag/mica-levi/)
- [film music](https://wophil.org/tag/film-music/)
- [European Film Award](https://wophil.org/tag/european-film-award/)
- [best composer award](https://wophil.org/tag/best-composer-award/)
- [Paula Kimper](https://wophil.org/tag/paula-kimper/)
- [Karen Lefrak](https://wophil.org/tag/karen-lefrak/)
- [The Kleio Quartet](https://wophil.org/tag/the-kleio-quartet/)
- [bachtrack](https://wophil.org/tag/bachtrack/)
- [Pamela Harrison](https://wophil.org/tag/pamela-harrison/)
- [Kathleen McGuire](https://wophil.org/tag/kathleen-mcguire/)
- [SHIFT](https://wophil.org/tag/shift/)
- [Kati Agocs](https://wophil.org/tag/kati-agocs/)
- [Loren Loiacono](https://wophil.org/tag/loren-loiacono/)
- [Minnesota Composers Institute](https://wophil.org/tag/minnesota-composers-institute/)
- [2014 Performance Grant](https://wophil.org/tag/2014-performance-grant/)
- [Fresno Philharmonic](https://wophil.org/tag/fresno-philharmonic/)
- [Berklee College of Music](https://wophil.org/tag/berklee-college-of-music/)
- [Ala Milosavljevic](https://wophil.org/tag/ala-milosavljevic/)
- [BBC Radio 3](https://wophil.org/tag/bbc-radio-3/)
- [The Women's Philharmonic](https://wophil.org/tag/the-womens-philharmonic/)
- [Fanny Hensel](https://wophil.org/tag/fanny-hensel/)
- [G. F. Handel](https://wophil.org/tag/g-f-handel/)
- [American Symphony Orchestra](https://wophil.org/tag/american-symphony-orchestra/)
- [Leon Botstein](https://wophil.org/tag/leon-botstein/)
- [Simone Young](https://wophil.org/tag/simone-young/)
- [Anne Midgette](https://wophil.org/tag/anne-midgette/)
- [Claremont Trio](https://wophil.org/tag/claremont-trio/)
- [Lancaster Symphony](https://wophil.org/tag/lancaster-symphony/)
- [Sylvie Bodorova](https://wophil.org/tag/sylvie-bodorova/)
- [Lisa Coons](https://wophil.org/tag/lisa-coons/)
- [Women Composers Festival of Hartford](https://wophil.org/tag/women-composers-festival-of-hartford/)
- [emilie mayer](https://wophil.org/tag/emilie-mayer/)
- [beethoven](https://wophil.org/tag/beethoven/)
- [germany](https://wophil.org/tag/germany/)
- [discovery](https://wophil.org/tag/discovery/)
- [rediscovery](https://wophil.org/tag/rediscovery/)
- [Stefan Malzew](https://wophil.org/tag/stefan-malzew/)
- [Neubrandenburger Philharmonie](https://wophil.org/tag/neubrandenburger-philharmonie/)
- [Imogen Cooper](https://wophil.org/tag/imogen-cooper/)
- [Virginia Symphony](https://wophil.org/tag/virginia-symphony/)
- [Claude Arrieu](https://wophil.org/tag/claude-arrieu/)
- [Caroline Shaw](https://wophil.org/tag/caroline-shaw/)
- [Community Women's Orchestra](https://wophil.org/tag/community-womens-orchestra/)
- [Marjan Helms](https://wophil.org/tag/marjan-helms/)
- [Lansing Symphony Orchestra](https://wophil.org/tag/lansing-symphony-orchestra/)
- [Georgia Tech Symphony Orchestra](https://wophil.org/tag/georgia-tech-symphony-orchestra/)
- [Hsin-Lei Chen](https://wophil.org/tag/hsin-lei-chen/)
- [Chattanooga Symphony & Opera](https://wophil.org/tag/chattanooga-symphony-opera/)
- [frauenkomponiert](https://wophil.org/tag/frauenkomponiert/)
- [Higdon](https://wophil.org/tag/higdon/)
- [Robert Spano](https://wophil.org/tag/robert-spano/)
- [Roberto Diaz](https://wophil.org/tag/roberto-diaz/)
- [viola music](https://wophil.org/tag/viola-music/)
- [Naxos](https://wophil.org/tag/naxos/)
- [social media](https://wophil.org/tag/social-media/)
- [CKWR](https://wophil.org/tag/ckwr/)
- [MacDowell Colony](https://wophil.org/tag/macdowell-colony/)
- [Courtney Bryan](https://wophil.org/tag/courtney-bryan/)
- [Diane Wittry](https://wophil.org/tag/diane-wittry/)
- [Ashia Grzesik](https://wophil.org/tag/ashia-grzesik/)
- [Salem Chamber Orchestra](https://wophil.org/tag/salem-chamber-orchestra/)
- [Mount Holyoke](https://wophil.org/tag/mount-holyoke/)
- [Marisol Jimenez](https://wophil.org/tag/marisol-jimenez/)
- [Hilde Paredes](https://wophil.org/tag/hilde-paredes/)
- [Kitty Brazelton](https://wophil.org/tag/kitty-brazelton/)
- [Laura Karpman](https://wophil.org/tag/laura-karpman/)
- [Patricia Leonard](https://wophil.org/tag/patricia-leonard/)
- [Jing Jing Luo](https://wophil.org/tag/jing-jing-luo/)
- [Odaline de la Martinez](https://wophil.org/tag/odaline-de-la-martinez/)
- [Kamala Sankaram](https://wophil.org/tag/kamala-sankaram/)
- [Su Lian Tan](https://wophil.org/tag/su-lian-tan/)
- [Pulitzer Prize](https://wophil.org/tag/pulitzer-prize/)
- [Chicago Composers Orchestra](https://wophil.org/tag/chicago-composers-orchestra/)
- [Chicago Composers' Consortium](https://wophil.org/tag/chicago-composers-consortium/)
- [Kendra Preston Leonard](https://wophil.org/tag/kendra-preston-leonard/)
- [Laura Pettigrew](https://wophil.org/tag/laura-pettigrew/)
- [Royal Philharmonic Society](https://wophil.org/tag/royal-philharmonic-society/)
- [Alan Gilbert](https://wophil.org/tag/alan-gilbert/)
- [Alice Parker](https://wophil.org/tag/alice-parker/)
- [Margaret Garwood](https://wophil.org/tag/margaret-garwood/)
- [Orchestra of St. Luke's](https://wophil.org/tag/orchestra-of-st-lukes/)
- [Maria Chavez](https://wophil.org/tag/maria-chavez/)
- [Los Angeles Philharmonic](https://wophil.org/tag/los-angeles-philharmonic/)
- [Laura Seddon](https://wophil.org/tag/laura-seddon/)
- [LA Philharmonic](https://wophil.org/tag/la-philharmonic/)
- [Juilliard String Quartet](https://wophil.org/tag/juilliard-string-quartet/)
- [Astrid Schween](https://wophil.org/tag/astrid-schween/)
- [Concert attire](https://wophil.org/tag/concert-attire/)
- [Jennifer Koh](https://wophil.org/tag/jennifer-koh/)
- [Bay Area Rainbow Symphony](https://wophil.org/tag/bay-area-rainbow-symphony/)
- [Dawn Harms](https://wophil.org/tag/dawn-harms/)
- [Chicago Symphony Orchestra](https://wophil.org/tag/chicago-symphony-orchestra/)
- [Buffalo Philharmonic](https://wophil.org/tag/buffalo-philharmonic/)
- [Agata Sorotokin](https://wophil.org/tag/agata-sorotokin/)
- [Wigmore Hall](https://wophil.org/tag/wigmore-hall/)
- [Aurora Orchestra](https://wophil.org/tag/aurora-orchestra/)
- [Dallas Opera Conducting Institute](https://wophil.org/tag/dallas-opera-conducting-institute/)
- [Dallas Opera](https://wophil.org/tag/dallas-opera/)
- [Pacific Symphony](https://wophil.org/tag/pacific-symphony/)
- [Iceland Symphony Orchestra](https://wophil.org/tag/iceland-symphony-orchestra/)
- [Jórunn Viðar](https://wophil.org/tag/jorunn-vidar/)
- [Ligia Amadio](https://wophil.org/tag/ligia-amadio/)
- [anniversaries](https://wophil.org/tag/anniversaries/)
- [women's rights](https://wophil.org/tag/womens-rights/)
- [Kim Pensinger Witman](https://wophil.org/tag/kim-pensinger-witman/)
- [Wolf Trap Opera](https://wophil.org/tag/wolf-trap-opera/)
- [Anne LeBaron](https://wophil.org/tag/anne-lebaron/)
- [LSD: The Opera](https://wophil.org/tag/lsd-the-opera/)
- [Jin Hi Kim](https://wophil.org/tag/jin-hi-kim/)
- [summer festivals](https://wophil.org/tag/summer-festivals/)
- [Judith Shatin](https://wophil.org/tag/judith-shatin/)
- [Galina Ustvolskaya](https://wophil.org/tag/galina-ustvolskaya/)
- [Ana Lara](https://wophil.org/tag/ana-lara/)
- [Aspen Music Festival](https://wophil.org/tag/aspen-music-festival/)
- [Bard SummerScape](https://wophil.org/tag/bard-summerscape/)
- [Bravo!Vail](https://wophil.org/tag/bravovail/)
- [Mildred Hill](https://wophil.org/tag/mildred-hill/)
- [Ojai Music Festival](https://wophil.org/tag/ojai-music-festival/)
- [La Traviata](https://wophil.org/tag/la-traviata/)
- [Blue Streak Ensemble](https://wophil.org/tag/blue-streak-ensemble/)
- [string orchestra](https://wophil.org/tag/string-orchestra/)
- [Jessica Gethin](https://wophil.org/tag/jessica-gethin/)
- [Dallas Opera Institute for Women Conductors](https://wophil.org/tag/dallas-opera-institute-for-women-conductors/)
- [Brian Stacey Emerging Conductor Award](https://wophil.org/tag/brian-stacey-emerging-conductor-award/)
- [Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra](https://wophil.org/tag/lake-superior-chamber-orchestra/)
- [Shannon Heaton](https://wophil.org/tag/shannon-heaton/)
- [Shelley Hanson](https://wophil.org/tag/shelley-hanson/)
- [Ellery Klein](https://wophil.org/tag/ellery-klein/)
- [May Aufderheide](https://wophil.org/tag/may-aufderheide/)
- [Katherine Corecig](https://wophil.org/tag/katherine-corecig/)
- [Bar Harbor Music Festival](https://wophil.org/tag/bar-harbor-music-festival/)
- [Jill Jaffe](https://wophil.org/tag/jill-jaffe/)
- [Scottish Chamber Orchestra](https://wophil.org/tag/scottish-chamber-orchestra/)
- [Sweet Adelines](https://wophil.org/tag/sweet-adelines/)
- [Alex Temple](https://wophil.org/tag/alex-temple/)
- [Alyssa weinberg](https://wophil.org/tag/alyssa-weinberg/)
- [Katherine Young](https://wophil.org/tag/katherine-young/)
- [Tonia Ko](https://wophil.org/tag/tonia-ko/)
- [Alice Farnham](https://wophil.org/tag/alice-farnham/)
- [Morley College](https://wophil.org/tag/morley-college/)
- [Sian Edwards](https://wophil.org/tag/sian-edwards/)
- [Andrea Quinn](https://wophil.org/tag/andrea-quinn/)
- [Sarah Tenant-Flowers](https://wophil.org/tag/sarah-tenant-flowers/)
- [Jessica Cottis](https://wophil.org/tag/jessica-cottis/)
- [Rebecca Miller](https://wophil.org/tag/rebecca-miller/)
- [Jessie Montgomery](https://wophil.org/tag/jessie-montgomery/)
- [Cold Mountain](https://wophil.org/tag/cold-mountain/)
- [Cincinnati Symphony](https://wophil.org/tag/cincinnati-symphony/)
- [New Jersey Performing Arts Center](https://wophil.org/tag/new-jersey-performing-arts-center/)
- [All-Female Jazz Residency](https://wophil.org/tag/all-female-jazz-residency/)
- [BBC Proms](https://wophil.org/tag/bbc-proms/)
- [Cheryl Frances-Hoad](https://wophil.org/tag/cheryl-frances-hoad/)
- [Shiori Usui](https://wophil.org/tag/shiori-usui/)
- [Betsy Jolas](https://wophil.org/tag/betsy-jolas/)
- [Joanna Lee](https://wophil.org/tag/joanna-lee/)
- [Evelyn Glennie](https://wophil.org/tag/evelyn-glennie/)
- [Keiko Abe](https://wophil.org/tag/keiko-abe/)
- [bard college](https://wophil.org/tag/bard-college/)
- [english language opera](https://wophil.org/tag/english-language-opera/)
- [rare opera](https://wophil.org/tag/rare-opera/)
- [Toronto Summer Music](https://wophil.org/tag/toronto-summer-music/)
- [The New Yorker](https://wophil.org/tag/the-new-yorker/)
- [Lutoslawski Quartet](https://wophil.org/tag/lutoslawski-quartet/)
- [Orin O'Brien](https://wophil.org/tag/orin-obrien/)
- [Into the Light Radio](https://wophil.org/tag/into-the-light-radio/)
- [Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla](https://wophil.org/tag/mirga-grazinyte-tyla/)
- [Jessy McCabe](https://wophil.org/tag/jessy-mccabe/)
- [Yi Yiing Chen](https://wophil.org/tag/yi-yiing-chen/)
- [Sadie Harrison](https://wophil.org/tag/sadie-harrison/)
- [2015 Performance Grants](https://wophil.org/tag/2015-performance-grants/)
- [Street Requiem](https://wophil.org/tag/street-requiem/)
- [Frederica von Stade](https://wophil.org/tag/frederica-von-stade/)
- [conductors](https://wophil.org/tag/conductors/)
- [concerts](https://wophil.org/tag/concerts/)
- [repertoire](https://wophil.org/tag/repertoire/)
- [composers](https://wophil.org/tag/composers/)
- [news](https://wophil.org/tag/news/)
- [premiere](https://wophil.org/tag/premiere/)
- [activism](https://wophil.org/tag/activism/)
- [Boston](https://wophil.org/tag/boston/)
- [opera](https://wophil.org/tag/opera/)
- [women composers](https://wophil.org/tag/women-composers/)
- [chamber music](https://wophil.org/tag/chamber-music/)
- [symphony](https://wophil.org/tag/symphony/)
- [Gloria Coates](https://wophil.org/tag/gloria-coates/)
- [Grace Williams](https://wophil.org/tag/grace-williams/)
- [Theresa Jansen](https://wophil.org/tag/theresa-jansen/)
- [Katelyn Clark](https://wophil.org/tag/katelyn-clark/)
- [Princeton Symphony](https://wophil.org/tag/princeton-symphony/)
- [2015-2016 Season](https://wophil.org/tag/2015-2016-season/)
- [Susan Pickett](https://wophil.org/tag/susan-pickett/)
- [Meredith Monk](https://wophil.org/tag/meredith-monk/)
- [Carolyn O'Brien](https://wophil.org/tag/carolyn-obrien/)
- [Christopher Reynolds](https://wophil.org/tag/christopher-reynolds/)
- [Maria Noriega](https://wophil.org/tag/maria-noriega/)
- [Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra](https://wophil.org/tag/montreal-womens-symphony-orchestra/)
- [Ethel Stark](https://wophil.org/tag/ethel-stark/)
- [composers to know](https://wophil.org/tag/composers-to-know/)
- [National Medal of Arts](https://wophil.org/tag/national-medal-of-arts/)
- [Anne Boleyn](https://wophil.org/tag/anne-boleyn/)
- [Zuhal Sultan](https://wophil.org/tag/zuhal-sultan/)
- [The Iraqi Youth Orchestra](https://wophil.org/tag/the-iraqi-youth-orchestra/)
- [Kirsten Broberg](https://wophil.org/tag/kirsten-broberg/)
- [Victoria Borisova-Ollas](https://wophil.org/tag/victoria-borisova-ollas/)
- [Elizabeth Ogonek](https://wophil.org/tag/elizabeth-ogonek/)
- [Sarah Kirkland Snider](https://wophil.org/tag/sarah-kirkland-snider/)
- [Song of the Lark](https://wophil.org/tag/song-of-the-lark/)
- [Mary Lou Williams](https://wophil.org/tag/mary-lou-williams/)
- [Kanye West](https://wophil.org/tag/kanye-west/)
- [Jessica Curry](https://wophil.org/tag/jessica-curry/)
- [video game music](https://wophil.org/tag/video-game-music/)
- [playlists](https://wophil.org/tag/playlists/)
- [Amy Andersson](https://wophil.org/tag/amy-andersson/)
- [Stephen Colbert](https://wophil.org/tag/stephen-colbert/)
- [Clémence Marie de Grandval](https://wophil.org/tag/clemence-marie-de-grandval/)
- [Barbara Hannigan](https://wophil.org/tag/barbara-hannigan/)
- [Saratoga Chamber Orchestra of Whidbey Island](https://wophil.org/tag/saratoga-chamber-orchestra-of-whidbey-island/)
- [Seattle Collaborative Orchestra](https://wophil.org/tag/seattle-collaborative-orchestra/)
- [Anna Edwards](https://wophil.org/tag/anna-edwards/)
- [Leanna Primiani](https://wophil.org/tag/leanna-primiani/)
- [Angelique Poteat](https://wophil.org/tag/angelique-poteat/)
- [Elisabeth Lutyens](https://wophil.org/tag/elisabeth-lutyens/)
- [hartford](https://wophil.org/tag/hartford/)
- [women composer's festival hartford](https://wophil.org/tag/women-composers-festival-hartford/)
- [Shirley Scott](https://wophil.org/tag/shirley-scott/)
- [Kimberly Francis](https://wophil.org/tag/kimberly-francis/)
- [Augusta Symphony Orchestra](https://wophil.org/tag/augusta-symphony-orchestra/)
- [Afghanistan National Institute of Music](https://wophil.org/tag/afghanistan-national-institute-of-music/)
- [Negin Khpolwak](https://wophil.org/tag/negin-khpolwak/)
- [Cappella Clausura](https://wophil.org/tag/cappella-clausura/)
- [Elena Ruehr](https://wophil.org/tag/elena-ruehr/)
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