Women Being Heard (or not) This Season

by sarah | Feb 1, 2014

That the professional music world, and professional orchestras in particular, aren’t known for welcoming women musicians with open arms isn’t news. It is a truth and a challenge that women have always faced and, as was recently reported by the BBC, is an ongoing...

Must-Listen Radio: WQXR’s Price of Admission

by SMBrown | Mar 13, 2013

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

A Few Words on the RPO

by sarah | Feb 5, 2013

The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra has been making headline after headline as of late—and not for the same reasons that it did just a year or so ago. The orchestra that was only months ago presented with the first Amy Award for programming excellence has now fired...

WPA 2012 Performance Grants

by sarah | Nov 26, 2012

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,...

The 1.7 Percent: Distilling the 2008-2009 Repertoire Reports

by SMBrown | Aug 24, 2012

Stories about “the 1%” abound in the media, but today I would like to shine a light on a far less reported, though far more relevant for this site’s purposes, statistic: the 1.7%. Our own Sarah Baer crunched the numbers (provided by the League of American...