Tag: activism

  • WPA News Digest, July 1, 2024

    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…

  • BBC Announces ‘New Strategy’ and Closes the BBC Singers

    BBC Announces ‘New Strategy’ and Closes the 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…

  • Elizabeth Wood Inspires 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 …

  • Opening Night at the Boston Symphony

    —  Hey, I haven’t worn a sandwich-board since the VPO protest of 1999!  A lot of fun! My sign reads: BSO, why are women composers excluded? 2011-2012: 70 pieces by 32 composers— ALL of them MEN. Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy www.wophil.org Sign our mailing list! And I handed out a flier (200 of ’em!).  It’s amazing…