By the Numbers: 2024-2025 Repertoire Report

by sarah | May 28, 2024

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...

New York Youth Symphony Album nominated for Grammy!

by Liane Curtis | Nov 28, 2022

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...

2022-23 Repertoire Report: Are the top-level US Orchestras committed to Diversity?

by Liane Curtis | Aug 2, 2022

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...

Monday Link Round Up: January 10, 2022

by sarah | Jan 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...

Monday Link Round Up: December 13, 2021

by sarah | Dec 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...