Tag: Amy Beach
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…