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...
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...
There should be no surprise that we at Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy are enthusiastic about supporting innovative ideas for concerts. But though we are among the relatively few voices that acknowledge the absence of works by women and advocate for their...
The list of 2015 Grammy nominations has been published – and Anna Clyne’s Prince of Clouds is in the running for Contemporary Classical Composition. Her work shares the ballot with John Luther Adams (Become Ocean), George Crumb (Voices From The...
While our priority at the moment is to get the word out about our Performance Grants, we thought we might take a moment to reaffirm the need for those grants, by taking a close look at some data about what orchestras are programming. In our work to level the playing...
